🚀 go-pugleaf

Andrew Hime wrote:

> >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.
>
> It's not quite that simple - Best Buy and Wal-Mart were using the CDs as
> loss leaders.
>
> Second, a CD may physically be cheap to reproduce in mass quantities - under
> a dollar, but then there is artwork, cost to actually get the music
> recorded/produced/mastered, advertising, videos, concerts, and THE SALARIES
> OF PEOPLE WHO WHO WORK AT THE LABEL.

And promotion - thousands of dollars of promotion to radio - free tickets, free
this , free that (used to be called payola).
Yeah there's more - over pompous stars that demand not simple covers, but cover
booklets with lyrics that
no one in junior high would think is good poetry, and yes promo videos to cover
up bad music with pretty faces, and
bloated salaries of record guys ( and then there's those damn jewel boxes - to
help destroy the environment - apparently CD's have to be surgically clean ?
what a waste of resources)  - that is all true , but pirates - I mean illegal
cd making pirates can do the cd, artwork, etc. for $3 and sell it to a store
that can resell for $6 amd still they make a profit - yeah they aren't paying
royalties or the new payola, or pampered rock star salaries - you're right
there.

And while we're at it - how come all thes 80's and 90's super rich rock stars
haven't given anything back to other artists? Where is the 'Madonna - helps
songwriters" fund, the Rap collective to end poverty, the In Sync scholarship
fund - etc.

No nothing is simple - it gets more and more complex. Keep the rant going -
spread the word.

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





>
>
> Stop being overly simply. That's just a disingenuous argument.