[Juho L]

Originally Posted by ledge

They should be paid by the artist, who should be paid by whoever buys the music.

This would lead to a point in which the musician should be more an accountant than a musician. You can't even imagine the amount of paper war and work the financial things of that level require. Plus an individual musician probably can't get the crew as cheap as a major label does which leads to a point that the you don't get any more profits plus you'll have to focus on accounting instead of music. This is of course an extreme situation but very possible. World is not blad & white you know.

And they should therefore get quite different money than The Beatles.

And they do get much less. What is the point in this? Every musician should get as much money as The Beatles?

I think gimpoid is talking more about the major labels where the middle men are not the producers/engineers/etc. but coporate suits who do fuck all. Middle men are by definition between the people involved in creating the music, i.e. the artists and engineers/producers, and the people buying the music.

So you want a world in which no-one thinks mostly one's own interest? A noble vision, it's like dreaming of a working socialist equal world. If the suit men don't fuck all then someone else does.

The major label music industry rips everyone off, both artists and consumers.

Yes they do and they are digging their own grave. I'll just sit and wait. But by boicoting all major label releases you also boicot the musicians and the other people working on the releases. Taking a bread from a poor musician just because you don't like the management taking a share.