arstechnica.com— Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke has been telling anyone who will listen that digital downloads for artists are a bad deal under most recording contracts.
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So you're saying that working in a grocery is the same thing as making music? People deserve more for their talents and their crafts. If artists made the same as some manager in a supermarket then I don't believe they'll make any more music for the masses.
No, that was my point. It was not comparing In Rainbows downloads to other album's CD sales. It was comparing In Rainbows download profits to OKC + The Bends + Kid A etc download profits. Nothing at all to do with any CD sales for any album.
Not if you buy CDs from acceptable indie labels. I bought a few EMI CDs after they started the no-DRM downloads on iTunes, and wrote to them saying so (and also that I'd be downloads when they are lossless with no DRM). There's also used CDs, for which the artist was already compensated when it was sold new.
eliot2000Jan 3, 2008
At the height of his popularity, LL Cool J drove a Honda Civic.
moshinatorJan 3, 2008
So you're saying that working in a grocery is the same thing as making music? People deserve more for their talents and their crafts. If artists made the same as some manager in a supermarket then I don't believe they'll make any more music for the masses.
bearingJan 3, 2008
Imagine what the artists will come up with when they get treated properly for their work..
sloonarkJan 3, 2008
No, that was my point. It was not comparing In Rainbows downloads to other album's CD sales. It was comparing In Rainbows download profits to OKC + The Bends + Kid A etc download profits. Nothing at all to do with any CD sales for any album.
Closed AccountJan 4, 2008
There's a difference between signing and marketing.
fangoriousJan 4, 2008
Not if you buy CDs from acceptable indie labels. I bought a few EMI CDs after they started the no-DRM downloads on iTunes, and wrote to them saying so (and also that I'd be downloads when they are lossless with no DRM). There's also used CDs, for which the artist was already compensated when it was sold new.
acidbassJan 12, 2008
touche , i forgot alan freed in the mid 50s