----- Original Message -----
From: Dirk van den Heuvel <dirkv@groovedis.com>
> Rest assured the singles market is not dead, it's just underground and
under
> siege. Any one who loves underground music should encourage every one they
> know to go out and BUY music. We all need people to buy music or the
> musicians/labels making the music won't be able to keep making it. And the
> small labels get hit the hardest as they have the smallest sales to begin
> with.
>
I think people would go on making music if nobody bought it. Hopefully
there are musicians that make music because they enjoy doing it, not to make
a buck. The thing that takes money is running labels, paying taxes,
manufacturing records/CDs and distributing them.
Take the instance of that Lightning Head single that Groovedis was selling
for about $8US. That seems crazy to me for a 7 inch. Most of the money is
being wasted on manufacturing it and then shipping it. In contrast it could
be sold as an MP3 at emusic for 99 cents, infinitely more people could enjoy
it and the artist would probably still get paid the same (if not more).
Steve
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