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Originally posted by paul1000
Think again ... pre-CDR and gnutella(kazaa et al.) days, I can remember paying $30-50 for a great front row seat at almost any concert ...
Now that same $30-$50 might pay for your parking at a concert.
Artists have seen HUGE losses in record sales, so most have beefed up their fees for live performances over 250%, in turn raising the price of concert tickets, to try to subsidize for the loss of revenues(but still feeling the crunch).  (very similar to this biz ... pre 1998 we all made money very easily ... now we work three times as hard to make half as much)
I am involved quite heavily in the recording industry, and have represented several big recording artists in my mainstream endeavours, so I am not just blowing smoke up everybody's ass.
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well the artists are the bottom of the food chain in the music industry ... the "industry" may have seen losses in CD sales. its the musicians who will suffer, they sign up for some shit contract because the companies are slimeballs, and unless they put out an "appetite for destruction" they spend the rest of their lives just making enough to buy smack and making the companies richer. i still buy CD's ... my brother burned some system of a down and i liked it so i went out and got every CD ... file sharing has opened up music that i would have never heard b4 and i like that. just like webmasters have to smarten up, and the fittest will survive, so will it go with the music industry. file sharing is not going anywhere. dumb junkies will die poor or quit, real musicians will carry on and adapt. Damn does it really take that much brains to figure out how to milk file sharing for free advertising? People used to (hell they probably still are) break arms to get records played ... i remember the bitching when double tape decks came out.