You really think Apple would give 70 cents to the artist? Why do you think the artist would ever get that larger of a cut from music sales?
I think people have a misconception of what the music business is. the Artist is only 1 part of the whole equation, unless your selling CDs out of a van a whole lot of people work on releasing an album - producers, lawyers, PR, marketing, physical disc production, delivery logistics etc
Think of it as a the movie industry, the musical artist is similar to the director or star of the film, but there a whole lot of other parts to producing a film and everyone involved gets a cut of the sale of a movie.
artist need the marketing/PR push to become famous it doesn't just happen - RadioHead can pull stunts like giving their CD away because they already have a fan base that was built up the traditional way through music labels. If anything they are screwing all up and comers making them think they will get somewhere by giving their stuff away.
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You really think Apple would give 70 cents to the artist? Why do you think the artist would ever get that larger of a cut from music sales?
I think people have a misconception of what the music business is. the Artist is only 1 part of the whole equation, unless your selling CDs out of a van a whole lot of people work on releasing an album - producers, lawyers, PR, marketing, physical disc production, delivery logistics etc
Think of it as a the movie industry, the musical artist is similar to the director or star of the film, but there a whole lot of other parts to producing a film and everyone involved gets a cut of the sale of a movie.
artist need the marketing/PR push to become famous it doesn't just happen - RadioHead can pull stunts like giving their CD away because they already have a fan base that was built up the traditional way through music labels. If anything they are screwing all up and comers making them think they will get somewhere by giving their stuff away.