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Originally Posted by kane
Here is why artists get paid over and over again for the thing they created: they created something that is lasting. If you make a record and it sucks and nobody buys it, 20 years from now you will not be getting paid for it. A McDonald's employee makes a burger, it gets eaten and it is gone. they have to make another. You can't buy a big mac and eat it over and over again and again and nobody is going to go pay to see a McDonald's employee work (which is what you are doing when you pay to see a concert live).
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but with a Big Mac I actually receive a product .. with music I don't .. the same music I can listen to for free on the radio ? I now have to pay for ? why ?
back in the day everybody would just record their favorite songs from the radio and that way you could play them again when they wanted to ..
with buying music , you basically buy the right to listen to it when you want, you are not paying for the music itself but for the option to listen to it when it pleases you , ..
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Originally Posted by kane
If you make a record that has a lasting impact and people are still buying it 10, 20, 30 years after you made it why shouldn't you get paid for it?
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well, the question is , why should you ? as you pointed out yourself artists can make more then enough money from live concerst and merchandise ..
and I think it is better for them to just focus on that .. if you really like a certain artist and he is in town to give a concert you just might want to go and buy some tickets and go watch him live
if you did not get the oppurtunity to listen to his music in the first place you would not have gone .. concert revenue is at an all time high ?? why is that do you think ? maybe because more people listen to music now that it is free ?
free music is here now , and it is here to stay .. look at spotify , grooveshark ..
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Originally Posted by kane
Answer me this: If a chef comes up with a bunch of great recipes and builds a kick ass menu around it and then opens up a restaurant using those recipes then they hire managers to run the place and they just step back and let it all work should they only get paid for the first batch of customers through the door? .
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is this Chef making his food only once ? you contradict yourself .. you make the argument that a Big Mac can not be sold more than once because once somebody eats it is gone and you have to make a new one if you want to sell more
so how about this chef then ?
the rest of his customers will not be getting any food ? or what ? aslong as he is making NEW food he should get paid .. artists are not making anything new at all
some of them make one Big Mac and then expect to get paid forever ,