[geeks] Fwd: from Silicon news

[Andrew Weiss]

I'd love to start a non-profit record label whose sole job was to 
promote artists.  We'd have a CD-Press and a recording studio, and the 
only rights we'd have to their music was the right to defend it against 
being stolen by the big five.  We would only collect fees for production 
and overhead and very close to the margin.  Our sole job would be to 
flatten the market.  Our motto could be a very Austin Powers... "Oh 
Behave..."

Andrew

On Monday, May 13, 2002, at 02:35 PM, Peter L. Wargo wrote:

> On Mon, 13 May 2002, Chris Byrne wrote:
>
>> Say you're a 5 person band and you write your own music equally. That 
>> leaves
>> each of you with between 20 and 60 cents per CD.
>
> I think the record companies are running scared.  For the first time,
> artists have a cost-effictive way to bypass them and go right to the
> consumer.  Plus, after hearing some original songs by the artists (like
> demo cuts), and the released versions, I would've rather had the 
> somewhat
> techniocally inferior but much better "rough" versions.
>
> 'Twould be a sorry shame if the parasites in the industry had to get 
> real
> jobs. :-)
>
> -Pete
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