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Yes record companies exploited musicians, but they also brought other things to the table, they took to band to a professional recording studio, they had a professional sound engineer mic up the drums and other instruments. They rehearsed them, recorded them, schooled them, marketed them * (* just for you :-))
They hired in other musicians for different tracks, they produced albums with themes, great photography for the covers and ads, they helped music magazines survive with content.
Freedom, opportunity, education need structure as well as just the freedom to distribute.
You are throwing the baby out with the bathwater.
The new corporations Apple Google Microsoft are just as exploitative and unaccountable.
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