[Juho L]

Originally Posted by gimpoid

thanks for updating the pole juho.i agree it is a good way to preview music and if you like it and respect it and want that artist to make more goood music then you should show that appreciation through a donation to their site or purchase some of their merchandise in a way that most of the money goes to them and not some middle man.

So you're trying to say that for an example mixermen, masterers, producers, session musicians, recording engineers, cover graphics artists, additional composers and writers don't deserve any pay?

the beatles made a lot of money and they only got something like 4pence from every album.so you can become well off with very small donations on a large scale,

Average musician sells quite different numbers than The Beatles.

but do we really need all these midddle men to sell us something we dont need and isnt worth very much with a very short shelf life?

I think you really don't have any idea who are these "middle men". When real musicians make a record there is more invovled than a teenager with a bad acne and Reason 2.5, like on trance scene. Hoho. But really, think who are getting paid for the record sales. The musician/artist itself gets majority of the pay by live shows - The rest of the musicians and other people invovled in making the record get paid only by the sales.

I'd like also add that if a record has a short life then it's the musician's fault. If a record can't take more than few listens then it's clearly a bad record.