cliveb;158598 Wrote: > If you're going to argue from an ethical perspective, you ought to > examine how ethical (or not) is the typical recording contract offered > to artists by the big labels.
You are right in many ways here, but I think you paint too one-sided a picture. The other side includes the independent record companies, who invest much more time and effort into their artists. A lot that I know of are doing very badly financially, often being supported by their directors; when they get a big return it's all effectively put back into the pot for all the artists. I also have a friend who had a band. They did very well from their record company, and he hasn't a bad word to say about them. They helped them when times were bad, got them touring the US, Europe and Japan, and overall he had a great few years. Sure there's nothing left now - they're not selling records any more - but without the initial support and investment by the record company, nothing would ever have happened. The (larger) record companies give themselves a bad rep by wasteful largesse (fat-cat salaries, parties etc), overpaid formulaic artists, insufficient investment in 'risky' music and much more. However, it can be argued that they need to do something like this, in order to make an artist really big. I think the real problem might be the obsession the media has with the celebrity culture. Maybe the record companies are a function of this, rather than the cause? Just a thought. Adam -- adamslim SB3 into Derek Shek d2, Shanling CDT-100, Rotel RT-990BX, Esoteric Audio Research 859, Living Voice Auditorium IIs, Nordost cables ------------------------------------------------------------------------ adamslim's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7355 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=28858 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
