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Originally Posted by kane
See I happen to think without the big labels we would be awash in garbage music that we would hopelessly be sloshing through to get at something good.
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We're already awash in garbage music, and mostly because of the big labels not wanting to go into the hassle of working with real talents. They just want to make money by selling a "product", not music. And to use some "technology", best of all a computer program, to get that product done that phases out a real talent that takes too much time to grow and is too difficult to deal with.
I'd shell out $15 any day for an album the "Dark Side of the Moon" quality, but I will not pay even $1 for those one-hit wonders' albums simply because I appreciate my time and hate listening to the garbage music. I wouldn't even download it for free, because for me I'd either listen for quality music or wouldn't listen for anything at all.
In nowadays world, any business should have a compelling reason to exist. For big labels it could be that they scout for real talents (which was what they were actually doing in the past), help them grow and promote them to the public. That's something that is worth asking to get paid for. But it is painfully obvious that they're in here just for money and do not care about music at all, that's why they gain no public support of their efforts to protect their business. Although maybe their claims are at least half legitimate, and they have contractual rights to the music that gets distributed now free online - their "business" is not bringing anything better to the world and people tend to think of $15/CD as an unfair tax that goes to those useless "suits".