"Keith G" wrote in message
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"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?

I was not talking about advances, I was talking about sales.
Most contracts are for a three or four record deal.

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.)

Have you considered that in some areas of the world (the former
Eastern bloc, and the FarEast) that pirate/counterfeit recordings
account for 95% of sales?

Thinks what an effect that must have on prices of the genuine
article.

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

Piracy/counterfeiting is just that.


Iain