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 musicunlimited
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 Would You Work For Free? Artists Wouldn't Either... 
#13605399 - 12/09/10 08:06 AM (2 years, 5 months ago) |
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What would you do or say if your boss came to you and asked you to do your job to the best of your ability... FOR FREE? Even if you love your job I'm almost certain you would tell him/her to kiss your natural ass!!! Well, when artists go into a studio and record music and sell the finished product to the world it's because they consider it their career and plan to support their family and themselves with its income.
99 cents ... that's all the majority of music offered at online stores cost. In fact you don't even have to buy an entire album for one good song anymore, you can just buy the songs that you like individually. In my line of work I'm frequently on Twitter and Facebook and I see so many fake people bragging about how much money they have, what they just bought, their swag level, but these are the same cheap individuals that won't break a $20 bill for a bag of chips.
Forget the fact that music piracy is wrong and stealing music affects you as the fan or consumer. An artist is not going to put forth their best effort on a track if they know that it will just be leaked and they won't make any money from their time and hard work. Because of this you are not getting quality music and this is why 90% of the radio sounds like repetitive crap.
For the world to hear one song an artist buys a beat from a producer, writes the song, books studio time or pays electricity for their own studio, pays for marketing and advertising of the song and in most cases pays to have the song played on the radio. On the low end a song from start to finish can cost $2,500 to $10,000 for an indie artist and upwards of $50,000 to $100,000 for a major artist which is always paid upfront. Multiply that by the number of songs on an album and you can see why 99 pennies means so much to an artist.
And, if you don't have 99 pennies to download a song you probably shouldn't be on Twitter or Facebook anyway. Maybe you should be out looking for a job. And, if you have a job and still steal music consider yourself a thief that fronts on social sites. It is what it is people.
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 Beanhead
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Re: Would You Work For Free? Artists Wouldn't Either... [Re: musicunlimited]
#13605673 - 12/09/10 10:02 AM (2 years, 5 months ago) |
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Sure, if we got rid of currency aswell. If making music takes that much money that says more about the industry and the artists IMO...
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Edited by Beanhead (12/09/10 10:03 AM)
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