[Rumori] re: Songwriters Say Piracy Eats Into Their Pay

[Praemedia]

> they *are*
> dropping signed acts 
> left, right and centre and the quality is reduced to
> easy sellable, 
> mainstream, safe music.  Why do you think labels are
> merging all the 
> time? And musicians who cannot earn a living instead
> get jobs. This is 
> not good and not what we want, I hope?

I buy probably a hundred or more cds a year (a lot
used) - not one has been 'dropped' from a label and
not one of those labels has 'merged' with any other.
Maybe in the corporate music world this is true, but
I'm not particularly interested in either the music
they produce or the models of business on which they
depend. I suggest you broaden your scope of music.
There are hundreds of thousands of releases each year
all over the world by tiny, idependent labels. That is
where your support should be if so concerned.

I know quite a few musicians who have sell up to
several thousand cds a year. I only know one or two
without dayjobs. The industry never supported new
music to begin with. It is always going to be going
down the safe road. Thats how it is built. Its how its
always been.

lance


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