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Originally Posted by Cherry7
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.
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The artists PAID for all that stuff. The Majors didn't 'give' it to them.
None of that is important any more though. Albums with themes? Come on, prog rock died for a reason.
Mic-ing up drums? That's really not hard. And who cares about cover art when it's on an iPhone screen? The days of gatefold Yes albums are done with.
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Originally Posted by Cherry7
Freedom, opportunity, education need structure as well as just the freedom to distribute.
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Structure? Not sure what you mean. Unless you mean the list of things that artists don't need to be sold anymore. They can do it themselves.
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Originally Posted by Cherry7
You are throwing the baby out with the bathwater.
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No one is throwing out bathwater. More music is made and sold to more people today than every before. It's just the Majors don't own the rights to it now. And they are pissed.
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Originally Posted by Cherry7
The new corporations Apple Google Microsoft are just as exploitative and unaccountable.
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So, in the old days, you got signed and
loaned the money to record and album. They album then sold, and you paid the label back. And you didn't own the songs you made anymore. It was like getting a mortgage for a house, paying it off, and the bank still own the house.
How is charging 30% even vaguely similar?
And google and ms aren't really in this game, are they?