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Shane Crowe wrote:

> "James Harvey" <j-harvey1@raytheon.com> wrote in message
> news:3B3F2A92.A7F5199B@raytheon.com...
>
> > <rant on>
> > So there you have it - it's all boiled down to money.  How much a record
> > label pays is what really determines the songs you hear.  Listeners be
> > damned.  I hear fewer and fewer stations taking requests these days,
> > too.  CC stations operate pretty much the same way as other stations
> > when it comes to playing music, it's just there's a lot of CC stations.
> > What's scary is that the biggest indie company (Tri State), run by one
> > of CC's owner's buddies, wants access to CC's playlists, and may even
> > form an exclusive alliance with CC.  Deregulation of the radio industry
> > has created a monster in the form of Clear Channel, and the FCC looks
> > the other way.  Most radio has been ruined as far as I'm concerned.  It
> > looks to me like radio should be re-regulated and CC forced to divest
> > some of its stations.
> > <rant off>
>
> You forgot to mention that the same record companies that pay rediculous
> sums of money to have their records played are the same record companies
> that recoup those fees by charging consumers rediculous prices for CD's.
> They are having their cake and eating it to. They are holding the consumer
> hostage and forcing the consumer to pay the record company's way to easy
> street. And I'm sure lobby groups which you and I also pay for with high
> priced CD's are making sure that no gov't racketeering investigations start
> croping up.

Actually all 5 record companies (and there are only 5:
Sony, Warners, BMG, Vivendi, EMI) all pleaded a judicial no contest to a sort
of
price fixing recently. They would deny advertising dollars to any record shop
that
didn't keep prices high. That meant that every CD you bought in the 90's was
artificially too high priced.
There has been no rebates. You might note that Best Buy and Wal-Marts didn't
buy into the deal and
had the lowest prices. A CD (without royalties and printing costs) costs about
25 cents to mass
produce. That makes the mark-up  ... well it takes high math to figure it up.

Boycott radio advertisers until they play local music - keep this thread
moving
Tom Hendricks (Art S Revolutionary, editor of the zine Musea)
http://musea.digitalchainsaw.com



>
>
> It is no wonder why the record companies were terrified at Napster. The
> money "lost" through song swapping was just a smoke screen to gain public
> approval of their Napster fight.