This is from the Music first home page:
We need your help! For over 80 years corporate radio has not paid artists when they play their songs over the air - the same songs that attract millions of listeners and millions of advertising dollars to their stations.
Really?
You mean the same radio stations that by playing your songs expose millions of fans to your music which in turn leads these fans to buy your concert tickets and cds and all your other merchandise?
So if you don't get all the current free publicity you currently get, do you have any idea how much money it will cost you to get your songs out to that many people?
Rather than thinking of it as radio stations ripping you off, maybe the bands should have to pay the radio stations for esitionally a 3 minute commercial for consumers to want to buy your product (your albums and (concerts).
The RIAA is the biggest bunch of assholes. Maybe if they figured out how to come up with a business model that works for the digital age rather than being greedy lazy fucks they wouldn't have to do shit like this. Because it wasn't that long ago of the days of "Payola" where the record industry was paying off radio broadcasters to increase the airplay for their songs.
Read more below and go to the official site. I personally think I may not buy any material from any artist who has chosen to join this idiotic fight.
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3 comments:
I had no idea...points are well made. I so wanted to see Aerosmith at Verizon in St. Louis but the ticket prices finally did me in. Added you to my blog roll. See you have interests in beer and tattoos! I love beer...still don't have a tattoo! When I come to STL, I'll buy you one!
I would never turn down a beer.
Concert tickets and merch are the only way bands make money now-a-days. Plus partnerships and stuff like that.
Albums are "break-even" promotional material now. And that goes along w/ airplay too. I agree w/ ya's.
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