"Iain M Churches" wrote


No that wouldn't work either:-)
Few artists (of course there are exceptions) exceed the sales
of their first or second album with subsequent efforts.



Exceptions? Name one band/artist who has made it big who would show up for
the same money they started out on?

Anyway, enough of all this, there are a number of human
activities/predilections that the Smart Alecs have managed to twist into a
highly lucrative gravy train (music, certain games, 'designer stuff') - what
makes me laugh is that they have managed to weave a web of rules that
ordinary people feel *bound* by!

The MI works to the following set of rules:

Rule 1 - We will shaft you (CD prices in the UK etc.)

Rule 2 - You will not shaft us....


Only it's like 'speeding' - everybody breaks the rules in their own way at
some time or other....