Quote:
Originally posted by Fred181
Becuase it is such a huge venue artists (especially) are forced to cater their albums toward Wal Mart's standards or risk not being sold in the store that more than half the US population shops at.
|
Stop right there. Wal-mart accounts for 10% of all music sales. So, if an artist wants to compromise their artistic integrity for a 10% boost in sales, then they really didn't have a lot of integrity to start with.
The idea of an artist being "forced" to compromise with wal-mart in order to sell their artistic product is just silly. If they care that much about compromising themselves, they can put mp3's up for free or sell the CD's themselves.
I do believe in anti-trust and anti-monopoly laws, and I think, for example, microsoft definitely falls into the level of control where they need some oversight. Wal-mart, though, seems to have plenty of quality competitors like Target, Costco, and others.