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Originally Posted by gideongallery
marie digby was in development hell until she covered her way into a full record contract, it was the best she could do after signing the commitment letter
sick puppy had a similar problem, so arguing that it proves your point is not a valid arguement.
i was there when the reps were promising the guys all the stuff they could do i believed them too, that why i agreed that to help them get signed. I found out how much of a screw job the record companies do when they did stupid shit like replacing the seo html site with flash site that was pretty. Either they were totally clueless (which i doubt) or they wanted to cut the source of free traffic so the band would be dependent on chargable promotion services (which they controlled).
do you think they are taking the same screw job contract offers. record companies are giving exclusion for youtube and myspace /bit torrent so they get the best of both world, 10% of the market they can't reach, and 100% of the market they know how to establish.
You would be stupid not to take that kind of deal, because the 10% is free money.
granted there are still artist who get suckered into the lie that the record company way is the only way (your arguing that now btw) and will give them the complete control they want without any contract reversal points, but the smart artist are learning how to negotiate those points into the contract.
but that you reason the smart artist are negotating better deals leveraging their success to use the record companies to get free money they would not normally be able to get.
The stupid ones are suckered into believing the bullshit arguement you keep spouting as justification.
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Your argument has all along been that record labels screw people over. You said it yourself in this post that you were at the table with the band when all this stuff was promised and they were screwed. Isn't that THEIR fault just as much as the record labels? Didn't they read the contract to see what they had control of and what the didn't have control of? If life was so good with out the record company why even bother listening to a record company?
These other artists might then be in the same situation. If you sign a contract, you sign a contact, you can't suddenly then just leave because you aren't happy.
Still, it doesn't change a thing. You rail against the record labels and talk about how fantastic torrent traffic is and how you can promote yourself and create a great career for yourself and keep 90% of the profits and make way more money than you could if you were on a record label, yet for some reason all of these internet people seem to end up at major labels. Life must not be as bad as you seem to think it is or these people realized that they can't get to where they want to be via the internet alone and went to where the real money is. How good or bad their contract turns out to be is all in their hands. If they are dumb enough to sign a bad contract why should I feel sorry for them?