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What a little freaking child. The nerve of these so called "artists" to complain when they're getting paid too. I'd complain if I wasn't getting paid.

Here's you lollipop too. So childish.]]>Jul 31st 2007 2:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/31/led-zeppelin-embraces-itunes-eminem-sues/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/31/led-zeppelin-embraces-itunes-eminem-sues/
you know...

realize you're selling your tracks on iTunes.]]>Jul 31st 2007 2:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/31/led-zeppelin-embraces-itunes-eminem-sues/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/31/led-zeppelin-embraces-itunes-eminem-sues/Jul 31st 2007 3:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/31/led-zeppelin-embraces-itunes-eminem-sues/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/31/led-zeppelin-embraces-itunes-eminem-sues/Jul 31st 2007 4:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/31/led-zeppelin-embraces-itunes-eminem-sues/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/31/led-zeppelin-embraces-itunes-eminem-sues/Jul 31st 2007 2:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/31/led-zeppelin-embraces-itunes-eminem-sues/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/31/led-zeppelin-embraces-itunes-eminem-sues/Jul 31st 2007 3:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/31/led-zeppelin-embraces-itunes-eminem-sues/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/31/led-zeppelin-embraces-itunes-eminem-sues/Jul 31st 2007 2:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/31/led-zeppelin-embraces-itunes-eminem-sues/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/31/led-zeppelin-embraces-itunes-eminem-sues/Jul 31st 2007 2:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/31/led-zeppelin-embraces-itunes-eminem-sues/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/31/led-zeppelin-embraces-itunes-eminem-sues/Jul 31st 2007 2:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/31/led-zeppelin-embraces-itunes-eminem-sues/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/31/led-zeppelin-embraces-itunes-eminem-sues/Jul 31st 2007 2:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/31/led-zeppelin-embraces-itunes-eminem-sues/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/31/led-zeppelin-embraces-itunes-eminem-sues/Jul 31st 2007 3:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/31/led-zeppelin-embraces-itunes-eminem-sues/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/31/led-zeppelin-embraces-itunes-eminem-sues/
It sounds outrageous but that's basically how every record deal is structured...in exchange for promoting your music, publishing it, and getting it into stores the record company becomes the sole owners and proprietors of your "masters" i.e the original recordings. ]]>Jul 31st 2007 2:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/31/led-zeppelin-embraces-itunes-eminem-sues/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/31/led-zeppelin-embraces-itunes-eminem-sues/Jul 31st 2007 3:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/31/led-zeppelin-embraces-itunes-eminem-sues/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/31/led-zeppelin-embraces-itunes-eminem-sues/Jul 31st 2007 3:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/31/led-zeppelin-embraces-itunes-eminem-sues/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/31/led-zeppelin-embraces-itunes-eminem-sues/
Someone like Eminem would simply threaten to go to a different label ... which he could easily do. Even if Universal owned the rights to his music before he left (which I seriously doubt at this point) they still would be insane to let someone like him and his record label go to another.

My understanding is it goes:
Universal Records --> Interscope Records--> Shady Records --> G-Unit Records --> Whatever else...

Maybe there are labels inbetween... but Universal doesn't want to lose that money. Plus... being the rap genre... not a verse would go by without Eminem or 50 cent slamming Universal and their executives... which is bad for business. They'd probably make a whole album just to slam Universal Records.

The record industry is extremely cut-throat. I'd say trust me... but you know... lol]]>Jul 31st 2007 3:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/31/led-zeppelin-embraces-itunes-eminem-sues/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/31/led-zeppelin-embraces-itunes-eminem-sues/Jul 31st 2007 3:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/31/led-zeppelin-embraces-itunes-eminem-sues/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/31/led-zeppelin-embraces-itunes-eminem-sues/
Maybe we weren't good enough to get the "good" record contract but everything that got placed in front of us was basically structured the way I described above. ]]>Jul 31st 2007 4:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/31/led-zeppelin-embraces-itunes-eminem-sues/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/31/led-zeppelin-embraces-itunes-eminem-sues/Jul 31st 2007 3:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/31/led-zeppelin-embraces-itunes-eminem-sues/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/31/led-zeppelin-embraces-itunes-eminem-sues/Jul 31st 2007 3:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/31/led-zeppelin-embraces-itunes-eminem-sues/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/31/led-zeppelin-embraces-itunes-eminem-sues/Jul 31st 2007 3:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/31/led-zeppelin-embraces-itunes-eminem-sues/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/31/led-zeppelin-embraces-itunes-eminem-sues/
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Let's see... #3 music retailer in America..... helping you sell your increasingly dated music.... I don't know, maybe you WOULD make more money selling CD-R's on the streetcorner in Detroit? Freaking retard.]]>Jul 31st 2007 3:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/31/led-zeppelin-embraces-itunes-eminem-sues/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/31/led-zeppelin-embraces-itunes-eminem-sues/Jul 31st 2007 3:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/31/led-zeppelin-embraces-itunes-eminem-sues/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/31/led-zeppelin-embraces-itunes-eminem-sues/
Personally I spend much more on vinyls then I do on any digital form of music.

New Love LP blows everything away.]]>Jul 31st 2007 5:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/31/led-zeppelin-embraces-itunes-eminem-sues/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/31/led-zeppelin-embraces-itunes-eminem-sues/Jul 31st 2007 4:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/31/led-zeppelin-embraces-itunes-eminem-sues/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/31/led-zeppelin-embraces-itunes-eminem-sues/Jul 31st 2007 5:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/31/led-zeppelin-embraces-itunes-eminem-sues/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/31/led-zeppelin-embraces-itunes-eminem-sues/Jul 31st 2007 5:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/31/led-zeppelin-embraces-itunes-eminem-sues/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/31/led-zeppelin-embraces-itunes-eminem-sues/Jul 31st 2007 10:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/31/led-zeppelin-embraces-itunes-eminem-sues/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/31/led-zeppelin-embraces-itunes-eminem-sues/
The whole "with him, with them, with it, with her" thing - for God's sake, STOP IT! It's an exceedingly awkward way to tie together poorly constructed fragments.

In the second sentence of this post: "The band isn't quite going all out, however, with it instead simply offering greatest hits of sorts called "Mothership," which will include" etc etc etc, you don't even need "with it". Take it out and the sentence remains 100% grammatically correct but becomes around 500% less awkward.

Second part: "In other iTunes news, Apple appears to have found itself on Eminem's bad side (again), with the rapper and his music publisher now suing the company over, you guessed it, alleged copyright violations." Okay, this is borderline awkward, but correct. Try using "as the rapper and his publisher are now suing" or rephrase the sentence instead.

Come on, man. You write for a living. Take the time to make it readable, please.

]]>Aug 1st 2007 12:32AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/31/led-zeppelin-embraces-itunes-eminem-sues/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/31/led-zeppelin-embraces-itunes-eminem-sues/Song:Public Enemy #1


...I might be walking blindfold into a typhoon
I might be seeing rockets light up the night sky
Right outside the window of my living room
And if they do you can say good night and by-bye to them iTunes
If I don't try to record as much before I do
The plan is to have as many in the can as I can
As I stand before you in this booth of walking dead man...
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...I might be walking blindfold into a typhoon
I might be seeing rockets light up the night sky
Right outside the window of my living room
And if they do you can say good night and by-bye to them iTunes
If I don't try to record as much before I do
The plan is to have as many in the can as I can
As I stand before you in this booth of walking dead man...
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Provided the artist is smart enough to not give up their rights (and masters) to a record company, there are various channels for distribution now:

-online (royalty-free formats like Ogg Vorbis and FLAC guarantee mucho income for artists)
-negotiating deals with mass-merchants directly (if you are 'big' enough to matter to them)
-letterbox spam mail-outs combined with online presence (yes, letterbox spam is still king in many ways, to build up local presence of an unknown act)
-selling out the back of your car, doing live shows, etc
-using record companies for distribution only (if you can even trust them)

Artists negotiating deals for their OWN behalf is what should be happening, simply speaking. The advent of great open-source formats (and dirt cheap physical CD/DVD manufacture) means NOTHING need be going to entities eating away from their pocket, as long as some work is put in to the online presence.


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