From: Samantha Atkins (samantha@objectent.com)
Date: Wed Jul 17 2002 - 13:52:18 MDT
Brian D Williams wrote:
> From: Lee Daniel Crocker <lee@piclab.com>
>
> People are buying fewer albums, record companies business was down
> over 10% last year.
>
> Fewer album sales, less profit to the artists.
>
Albums are becoming outmoded. Let the people select the songs
and form their own collections of songs at will. This can be
done without in any way depriving artists of incomes.
The middlemen in the industry are also largely outmoded.
>
>>A good, well-reasoned article on the issue from a good source:
>>http://www.janisian.com/article-internet_debacle.html
>
>
> This article justifies the position of a single individual, nothing
> more. Because they are making more money, they reason without
> evidence every artist will. Album sales indicate otherwise.
>
Alhum sales do not simply translate into income fluctuations for
the artists. Many have contracts that do not tie their income
to album sales. The vast majority of album sale income goes to
the middlemen.
- samantha
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