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Originally Posted by Juho L

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.

This is possible without the behemoth which is the major label recording industry at the moment. The paperwork is huge because the recording business has made it that way, plenty of small businesses exist without having to be part of some massive conglomorate, why can't the music industry work similarly?

Originally Posted by Juho L

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

The original point was that the Beatles made a fortune from only getting a few p per record sold, so if artists got a higher percentage of the actual sales they could make a living without having to sell massive quatities. It is only that the majotrs rip off artists so badly at the moment that it means that artists have to sell huge numbers of albums to make a living. Did you read that link to Steve Albini looking at the numbers and who makes what?

Originally Posted by Juho L

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.

My point is that the middlemen are taking a far bigger slice of the pie than they deserve, not that they shouldn't exist at all.

Originally Posted by Juho L

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.

I agree that they are digging their own grave, and I'm not condoning downloading music and not buying it, though I will refuse to buy music from major labels. At the same time I don't really listen to music from major labels as most of it is not to my tastes.

I'm pretty sure we are thinking the same thing here