i agree chameleon! but there is also plenty of success that doesn't get near the publicity because it harms the RIAA/MPAA (and others) fight to persecute people. when the fact of the matter is they have been ripping people off for years, legally, and laughing about it.

check out radioheads last album, in:rainbow (or something similar). they put it on there website, with no major label backing and let you pay whatever you wanted for it. from free to "regular" retail price ($10 i think). some people did download it for free while many paid. and i can't remember or find the actual figures, but they ended up making as much or more than they would have with a record deal.

it costs between $.85 and $1.15 to press and package a retail cd and the artist sees maybe a dollar of the retail sale price.

it's mereley people eating for free. and it's up to us as consumers (the most powerful group of people on the planet currently) to buck current trends and set forth new, more relevant ones!

definitely agree with the statement about most forum traversers!

good convo!


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