Shawn Brock -> RE: Online music (Feb. 6 2012 17:55:21)
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I receive royalties from Spotify, and they amount to a penny or two here and there. At least they do pay something though. Its all fine for some to think that musicians should give away music, but where do you get the money to record it, mix and master it, and replicate the CD's for those who still want to buy a product? Gigs don't pay what they used to, there aren't as many as there once was, and the price of CD's here in the U.S have gone down. Musicians used to sell a CD for $15 or $20 10 years ago, now they mostly sell for $10 or $15. Its funny, the price of most things has went up in the last 10 years, but there is less money from gigs and less money in album sales, so what are musicians to do? Having said that, I don't see a problem with a service streaming music. Streaming music is a lot different than giving someone a free download. People using file sharing to put music on the internet is the big problem. I'll go on record and say that I have probably gotten a thing or two from file sharing that I shouldn't have, and that wasn't the right thing to do... I decided that I just didn't want to live like that. People just don't think about things... There was a DJ here who was supposed to be my friend, and I'll be damned, I started looking at some of the file sharing sites and he had uploaded my music for the world to get for free! What kind of friend is that? If it wasn't for music this guy wouldn't have had a job spinning records on the radio, and how does he show his thanks? By giving away the means that other people use to make a living! I had a record label who owed me a lot of money for album sales, and they hadn't paid. They hadn't paid because they were slowly and silently going out of business... So here I am not being paid by the label and with a "friend" uploading my music to everyone and their brother to have for free! And I was the only one who seemed to have a problem with it. The label didn't have a problem with not paying any of its artists for product sold, and the DJ thought he was helping musicians out by sharing their music with the world. No one took the time to consider my $20000 investment in recording and musicians, plus all the time I took making the record...
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