Yet another music industry rant thread.

Whoa! So delusional. Who do they think they're fooling?!

Their costs are their own fault. The artists are being paid a small percentage of the actual sales price. They get about a dollar per CD. The other $13 is subsidizing their bad business practices, poor management, and outdated sales models.

Snorky, I've noticed that this area is a pet interest of yours. Are you involved in the industry?

No, it just rubs me the wrong way.

Almost every point they make is a fallacy.

I "liked" most how "costs incurred by our record companies are for making music" and support for "a band struggling to break through" can be talked about by those people. Record companies take out all the recording costs out of those struggling band's already pitiful royalties. Making music my ass.

And they completely ignore that in an advanced Internet culture there is no real need for the uber-expensive hype-marketing they spend billions on.

And the fact that music prices rose when we switched to CDs, despite the fact that "cost of manufacturing the CD is not that great".

And the list goes on and on. It pisses me off no end. And not because of the music per se but because I'm an idealist and the opportunities offered by the Internet can, have already to some extent, bring a new age of cultural enlightenment through sharing. It's like the new printing press and stupid bastards are trying their hardest to completely ruin it for humanity through short-sighted greed.

And the worst part is, they have almost complete support in the government.

Governments did not kill radio, they made it work. They didn't kill the first phonographic recording devices, they gave protection and the recording industry was born. Same thing with tapes and VCRs. Why is it so different now?

...unless the government steps in to protect them, like it seems to so actively be doing.

Just look at the whole broadcast flag and "analog hole" legislature and the ,thankfully dead, Consumer Broadband and Digital Television Promotion Act.

Or the whole "Mickey Mouse protection" fiasco a couple years back, not to mention the DMCA.

If I were young and in the music business again, I would embrace the web and snub these Labels.

No one can force you to sign with a label...It's time to think inside the box: The box you're looking at right now.

As i remember, AMD's first 90nm chips cost more than their 130mn equivs.

Also, CD's were of benefit to consumers - Track skipping for example. You can't do that with tapes etc.

Complaining a more advanced technology shouldn't cost more for the consumer is like saying DVD's shouldn't have cost more than VHS when they were first released.

...are you an advert?