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Whoever drew this is clueless. Record companies help musicians by promoting them, paying for studio time, music videos, licensing their music and getting out to the masses.
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No. They lend the artist the only to do this. Is not a fucking gift.
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Record companies invest (or 'bet") on a band hoping for big payoffs later on.
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No, they lend them the money. It's not altruism.
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The "music should be free" people just don't understand the music business or business in general. Everything costs money.
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As the cartoon states, that period of music stopped.
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The past 10 years saw huge amounts of piracy and a major market shift. APPLE for example, saw that people were no longer interested in whole albums, but in individual songs. iTunes made it easy for people to get individual songs, cheap enough to put a small dent in piracy, while still putting money in artists pockets.
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Yes. That is what the cartoon says
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As for $175 for a concert ticket, people should not complain. This compensates the band for losses due to piracy,
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Really? Do you know how much of the money the riaa raised goes to the artists? None. Not a penny. What stats do you base this laughable idea that labels charge high prices for gigs to make up for piracy losses? You wouldn't just be talking out of your arse would you?