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This what really scares the recording Industry

A few years ago I used to live accross the street from local Scout hall. Every weekend groups of band would rent the place and put on concerts. Kid would fill the place to capcity. These are highschool bands making good money off these independently put on concerts. All the money goes to the band members and those who helped out.

It's this new generation of rock star wannabes that scares the recording industry. These kids know computers very very well. They can set up a studio for $500 in thier garage. Sure it's not great quality but it works to promote thier songs and get people into thier concerts. It forms a cult following where I've seen them selling homemade CDs for $5 a pop sometime even less.

Now these enterprising youths will have several years of constant income from music by the time they leave school. Banks look favorably on that. If they kept good records of money made a lone for a few thousand dollars is possible and they upgrade thier studio. As time goes on they get more popular.

Now with recording industry exposed via the net and the knowledge of how recording contracts are done is common knowlege to anyone who knows how to use Google these up and coming artist won't sign thier life away. If a recording contract looks bad they can turn it down as they have a small fan base and are actually making money. Not the millions like the few Lable stars but enough to keep building.

Next comes those students who all want to work in recording industry. They forked out thousands for education to find themselves jobless. A few make but many end up working in fast food, I know one those guys. Anyways they are eager to help out any band out there for a little pay to get the experience that they lack which is holding them from getting a job. This perfects those young bands and CDs start getting better and the price goes up a litte to usually $6.99 for thier CDs.

With the internet the exposure of band like this expands. P2P becomes thier best friend. Suddenly a band can goto the next city and hook up with another group there. They play at each others cities. This continues to expand and the bands make more and more money that they keep.

Finally the Recording Labels feel they have to have this artist signed to them. The deals get sweeter and sweeter until they get the band to sign. Suddenly you have band getting 20-30% royalties. That's like a 25% loss to the recording industry. As well the home studio by that time is top notch so no more gouging goes on for recording. Another loss for the recording industry.

Pretty soon the Recording Lable is reduced to nothing more than service industry trying to gain any musical talent to use thier services. To do this they have to take a loss and offer a very good deal to artists.

This what really scares the Recording Industry. Right now we are at that point with the rent hall concerts and highschool/college bands getting more known via chat rooms and P2P.

The RIAA and it's members will go to any length to stop this. That's why they want P2P shut down. That's why you have scare tactics of law suits against so many for downloading song that available 24/7 on radio anyways. They don't want teens downloading that highschool bands music that they just happened to hear on the weekend. They don't want a chat room conversatoin saying "go to Kazza and download such and such a group's songs, I just saw them at a concert on the weekend" to some buddy on MSN that lives on the other side of the country.

This is nothing but capitolism at's best and the RIAA must be stopped!

Posted by: voska   Posted on: 12/20/03 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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