[BC] Re: music industry woes

[RichardBJohnson at comcast.net]

Until John Denver met a smart lawyer and set up WindStar Corporation,
the record companies were ripping him so that, in spite of his success
as an actor as well as a song-writer, musician, and vocalist. his yearly
income was under $80,000, about what an engineer or a long-distance
truck driver would earn at the time. Once he bought back his rights
so that they became the property of WindStar, that corporation's
income exceeded $2,000,000 per year. That shows how much
the middlemen take from the performers.

Nowadays, anybody can make a CD or DVD and even sell it online!
This scares the hell out of recording companies and distributors.
Music is no longer a protected commodity, where the distributors
keep the booty. That's why RIAA was risen from the dead and
lobbied to require that everything be copy protected. They are
killing themselves off, though. I predict that within the next
decade there will be about 12 copy-protected releases per
year, with all the rest coming from CD-Baby or other private
labels.


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Cheers,
Richard B. Johnson
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http://www.LymanSchool.org


 -------------- Original message ----------------------
From: nakayle at gmail.com
> As a kid I bought my 45s at 79¢ a pop at Woolworths.  I thought I was
> being robbed when they went up to 98 cents.
> 
> Fact is, I wouldn't give you 2 cents for the music(?) I hear now a
> days but I think the record industry can blame their own greed.  Why
> should most of fan's money go to middle men who had nothing to do with
> making the music when a artist can now sell their music directly to
> their fans via the net and keep ALL the profits?  And of course, with
> the middle men out of the picture they can sell cheaper so fans are
> better off too.  The stuffed suits in the record industry will have to
> face the fact they are as obsolete as transmitter babysitters in a
> changed world.
> 
>  - Nat Kayle
> 
> 
> On 10/22/07, r j carpenter <rcarpen1 at verizon.net> wrote:
> > Quote:
> > -------------
> > Pay $13-15.00 for a single selection of music vs the old $0.00-$2.00 for
> > a 45 RPM vinyl record that could be bought at nearly all the stores had
> > to have a part in the change.
> > -------------
> >
> > Have you looked at home much inflation there has been since the $2 single?
> >
> > $2 in 1960 dollars equals $13.60 in 2006 dollars
> > $2 in 1965 dollars equals $12.80 in 2006 dollars
> > $2 in 1970 dollars equals $10.40 in 2006 dollars
> > $2 in 1975 dollars equals $ 7.50 in 2006 dollars$
> > $2 in 1980 dollars equals $ 4.90 in 2006 dollars
> >
> > We forget home much less the buck is worth these days.
> >
> > bob c.
> >
> >
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