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Originally Posted by Perndog
The record company sends a rep to talk to the band, and the band (if they're smart) hires an entertainment lawyer to negotiate.
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Huh? The band, just getting signed, who are probably still working at the GAP or a supermarket to pay rent to their parents for the basement, are going to pool together and hire an entertainment lawyer....? I call that out of the kettle and into the fire....
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My point is that people bitch about musicians being greedy because they want a lot of money for what they do, but I think they deserve it.
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Maybe they do, maybe they don't, but irregardless, they don't see much of the royalties back, not unless they are huge acts who can control the negotiations with the labels. My point isn't that musicians are greedy, my point is that those musicians who take up a
very tiny percentage of those who are successful are being greedy, and have forgotten where it is that they came from. Metallica used to give albums out for free when they started out, and DMX built up his own popularity in a similar fashion. Now people are continuing that trend online, and Metallica all of a sudden become ardent defenders of so-called property and artistic rights...?
For every Metallica or DMX file you can get on Kazaa, there are HUNDREDS of tiny garage bands or fresh rap acts who upload their music trying to branch out and get heard on a massive level. Bands like Auto Pilot Off, who I lived near and knew, probably weren't complaining much when kids were downloading music of theirs. They got known by 1. touring like fuck, and 2. by kids sharing their music online. But now they're on Island/Def Jam, so who knows their tune now....
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Originally Posted by Kahljorn
So basically what you are saying is... by stealing MP3's from bands who already hold a side job we are just jacking them more, putting them out of even mroe money? Which side of the argument are you on? Everyone's like, "MUSICIANS ARE GREEDY MILLIONAIRES", then the next it's about how poor they are... thank you for reinforcing my point?
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No. My point was that musicians have been poor and struggling forever, and file sharing couldn't have made that any worse, because it's the unknown struggling bands who benefit from file sharing. I came across some bands that are now my favorites by using services like Audiogalaxy and Kazaa. Next week, when one of them swings through Austin, I will go to the show and pay real money that they will get a chunk of at the door. I bought most of their CDs anyway, just to own. But the door money is cash in hand, which is more than what can be said of the CD royalties they will see little of.
The bans this hurts the most are the big name acts, which is where the highest demand for mp3s rests. THESE artists, or more so their record labels, are IMO the ones who need to be flexible and adjust to this new phenomenon.