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Originally posted by tikki
If you believe that, you need to get out from your haze of bong smoke. Almost everyone who wants to be a musician has aspirations of fancy cars, big houses, etc. When they say, "It's just for the music, the money doesn't matter, they lie."
yea, they may still play because they love it, but I don't see many of them giving back that paycheck because they don't want to forget the point of playing music.
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Agreed. If artists TRULY felt that the money didn't matter, they'd ditch the big labels, give more free concerts, play small clubs instead of football stadiums, and most importantly, support P2P. After all, do they want their fans to HEAR their music, or do they want their fans to BUY their music?
This is their livelihood, this is how they support themselves. They deserve to get paid something, no argument there. But when people bitch about how pro athletes are paid millions of dollars to play sports, but don't say a word about the ridiculous recording contracts that musicians sign, it's hypocrisy. I could invoke teachers, police officers, military personnel, and plenty of other professions that are much more important in the grand scheme of things that get paid much much less, but that argument has been made before.
If me and you downloading a CD instead of buying it means the artist only gets to buy 3 cars instead of 4 this year, believe me, I'll sleep okay.
-Mikey