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Please remind me again...
...WTF is the point of a record label in this age of digital downloads? The old model relied on the recording company's ability to manufacture the media, and to supposedly hype the bejezus out of it to sell the CDs, vinyl, tape, whatever. In this world of iTunes and Rhapsody, the manufacturing has gone bye-bye, and on the marketing side, established old-fart bands already have their rep intact and have little if any need of a label's promotional department anymore, unlike some start-up act.

So, who's really biting who's hand here? Seems to me if anyone's doing the feeding, it's the BANDS feeding Sony, and not the other way around.
Posted by: flatliner   Posted on: 04/29/06 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use
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Almost forgot to laugh  f00d13 | 04/28/06
Please remind me again...  flatliner | 04/29/06
Labels will always be around  Feldon | 04/29/06
95% ?  Edward Meyers | 04/29/06
Things may be about to change.  UserLand | 04/29/06
And what about your justification...  flatliner | 05/02/06
Sony & the like: people are cattle with no rights, no needs, no choice?(NT)  Vily Clay | 04/28/06
Well, people always have needs... (nt)  HypnoToad72 | 04/28/06
Do you mean toilet or food? Actually, cattle can live without toilet. (NT)  Vily Clay | 04/29/06
For now, it?s not up to the People to decide what they need. (NT)  Vily Clay | 04/29/06
If Apple Only gets 2 dimes and the artist a nickle...  Edward Meyers | 04/28/06

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