First, let me give you some background. My step-father - whom I've spent a good deal of my life with - is a musician, he owns a high-end studio store where I also work, and my mother has been a caterer/lighting/rigging crew member for concerts since I was 10.
The only bands that make any money off of concerts are the insanely popular ones - read Smashing Pumpkins, the Stones, etc. The only reason any band would EVER tour is to promote their CD. Although they only make $1.50 or so from each sale, having thousands of people buy their CD is much better for them than spending their entire lives on the road, maybe making close to that for each concert goer. Keep in mind though, that even famous bands like Blink-182 don't fill stadiums - they fill clubs of 5000 people, usually playing with other bands who also take a cut. And here's other people (& items) that take a cut:
Promoter Tour Bus Drivers Caterers Rigging Crew Lighting Crew Mixing Crew The Venue itself TicketMaster Advertisment for the Show
Now add in traveling expenses - bus rental, gas, expensive hotel rooms, meals out, road gear, for EVERYONE on the crew, and you can see how quickly the $20 joe schmoe gave them for the concert has disappeared. Or they could sit at home, write more and better music, and collect money from CD sales. Even though record labels profiteer like crazy, it's only because bands usually wouldn't have happened without initial investment from said record label. Putting together a good tour and producing records are VERY expensive, as stated above.
The only way "free music" could ever work is by the honor system - you listen to one of their songs, you give them $0.50 for each song. The problem is the honor system will never work - kids will always want something for free, take advantage of it if possible, and leave the artist twisting in the wind. So please buy the CD - pay the people who deserve to make a living.
IF YOU DON'T WANT TO PAY FOR THE MUSIC, DON'T LISTEN TO IT. It's that simple.
I think that this is a very cool step that MirCorp is taking. With all the money and man power it takes to get satellites and space stations in orbit, it would make more sense for commercial organizations to recycle unused satellites than spend more money on manufacturing and placing new ones. Ghetto
OK, I had to tell someone - basically I was ordering some capture cards from pcstop.com, and inquiring about stock and found out that Intel hasn't shipped any PIIIs to pcstop.com in a *month*. Supposedly pcstop.com has 1.5 billion in stocked merchandise, so I don't think they are a small player. Has anyone else heard similar tales?
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First, let me give you some background. My step-father - whom I've spent a good deal of my life with - is a musician, he owns a high-end studio store where I also work, and my mother has been a caterer/lighting/rigging crew member for concerts since I was 10.
The only bands that make any money off of concerts are the insanely popular ones - read Smashing Pumpkins, the Stones, etc. The only reason any band would EVER tour is to promote their CD. Although they only make $1.50 or so from each sale, having thousands of people buy their CD is much better for them than spending their entire lives on the road, maybe making close to that for each concert goer. Keep in mind though, that even famous bands like Blink-182 don't fill stadiums - they fill clubs of 5000 people, usually playing with other bands who also take a cut. And here's other people (& items) that take a cut:
Promoter
Tour Bus Drivers
Caterers
Rigging Crew
Lighting Crew
Mixing Crew
The Venue itself
TicketMaster
Advertisment for the Show
Now add in traveling expenses - bus rental, gas, expensive hotel rooms, meals out, road gear, for EVERYONE on the crew, and you can see how quickly the $20 joe schmoe gave them for the concert has disappeared. Or they could sit at home, write more and better music, and collect money from CD sales. Even though record labels profiteer like crazy, it's only because bands usually wouldn't have happened without initial investment from said record label. Putting together a good tour and producing records are VERY expensive, as stated above.
The only way "free music" could ever work is by the honor system - you listen to one of their songs, you give them $0.50 for each song. The problem is the honor system will never work - kids will always want something for free, take advantage of it if possible, and leave the artist twisting in the wind. So please buy the CD - pay the people who deserve to make a living.
IF YOU DON'T WANT TO PAY FOR THE MUSIC, DON'T LISTEN TO IT. It's that simple.
Ghetto
I think that this is a very cool step that MirCorp is taking. With all the money and man power it takes to get satellites and space stations in orbit, it would make more sense for commercial organizations to recycle unused satellites than spend more money on manufacturing and placing new ones. Ghetto
OK, I had to tell someone - basically I was ordering some capture cards from pcstop.com, and inquiring about stock and found out that Intel hasn't shipped any PIIIs to pcstop.com in a *month*. Supposedly pcstop.com has 1.5 billion in stocked merchandise, so I don't think they are a small player. Has anyone else heard similar tales?
Werd
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I'll take condom flavors for 800, Alex.
Ghetto
If Dreamcast lets the disc boot an OS, would it be possible to hack the interface and burn a CD to boot Linux?