[quote name='berzirk']Ah, fair enough. My apologies if I misunderstood. Everybody starting out in entertainment has it rough. The most talented don't necessarily make it all the time. The hardest working ones have more success, at least that's how it seems to go in stand up comedy.[/QUOTE]
Yeah, economy of scale. The Hold Steady may sell out 1,300 capacity venues and get 10% of people to buy some merch, but that doesn't compare at all to the 25% of 60,000 people that go to a Metallica show. You don't really get into the territory of volume vs margin because you don't have the one to compete with the other in terms of the huge acts.
Also, the three highest paid women isn't their actual paycheck. That's revenue generated by products with their name attached. It's a safe assumption that they make 10-15% of that tops. It's also safe to assume that Harry Fox is making 20-30% of that listed total on each one.
Saying that the $2 won't hurt them is obviously true. On the other hand, your $10 iTunes album probably makes the artist $0.0025. Who it does hurt is the guy that works in the pressing factory that assembled a good 2,500 copies of Born This Way. As the physical medium continues to shrink, both through legally and illegaly obtained digital formats, that's jobs that are being lost. It hurts the session musicians who are the nameless people in the studio that play everything for scale and rarely if ever receive royalties. And like I said before, it hurts the consumers of "real" music since the market share dwindles that much more every year until they're all going to be Amanda Palmer self releasing stuff on bandcamp.
The only reason I can find to download something is if it's an out of print deal and used copies have that "rare" quality which makes them sell for 2,000% MSRP. And concert boots too if you're into that kind of thing.
Yeah, economy of scale. The Hold Steady may sell out 1,300 capacity venues and get 10% of people to buy some merch, but that doesn't compare at all to the 25% of 60,000 people that go to a Metallica show. You don't really get into the territory of volume vs margin because you don't have the one to compete with the other in terms of the huge acts.
Also, the three highest paid women isn't their actual paycheck. That's revenue generated by products with their name attached. It's a safe assumption that they make 10-15% of that tops. It's also safe to assume that Harry Fox is making 20-30% of that listed total on each one.
Saying that the $2 won't hurt them is obviously true. On the other hand, your $10 iTunes album probably makes the artist $0.0025. Who it does hurt is the guy that works in the pressing factory that assembled a good 2,500 copies of Born This Way. As the physical medium continues to shrink, both through legally and illegaly obtained digital formats, that's jobs that are being lost. It hurts the session musicians who are the nameless people in the studio that play everything for scale and rarely if ever receive royalties. And like I said before, it hurts the consumers of "real" music since the market share dwindles that much more every year until they're all going to be Amanda Palmer self releasing stuff on bandcamp.
The only reason I can find to download something is if it's an out of print deal and used copies have that "rare" quality which makes them sell for 2,000% MSRP. And concert boots too if you're into that kind of thing.
and people need to stop using it. Listen no one could copy SEVERAL HUNDRED THOUSAND VHS and disturbed them to the ENTIRE WORLD with no cost to themselves so its really apples to non existent oranges. Are you serious? How does giving 1 or 2 copies to you friend equal letting 10 thousand people access material. Hell at least back in the day you had the buy the 2nd vhs tape to dub....digital you dont even have to do that.
