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To: Doren who wrote (56185)	8/23/2006 2:49:59 PM
From: Lizzie Tudor	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 213185

Bowie said that professional musicians are going to have to like to tour, a lot, to make it in the future. I wonder what the context was, of when he said that. The problem with the music industry is not that consumers refuse to pay for content, the problem is that the existing infrastructure of the recording industry is basically a collusive monopoly that extorts consumers and cheats artists. Consumers are backlashing from CDs at $17.99 (approx double a top film which costs 20x as much to produce minimum) - and the problem is that artists were only making $.30 per CD to begin with even with those extreme prices. The other $17.50 goes to "overhead"- so that Sony can overpay their executives and generate rootkits to spy on consumer CD usage (hmm reminds me of msft vista a little, consumers get little, msft gets better piracy prevention from vista- so what?) If the direct to consumer model could develop in the music industry - or at least cut out some of the fat- then there would be plenty of money for artists and distribution even if CDs cost $4.50 which is about what the market values them at*. Google is offering media upload and charging on Google video with a 1/3 cut to google for the service (I believe). Plenty of indie films have been able to muster enough buzz without major studio sponsorship. The problem the recording artists have is the radio stations are all colluding, too. My opinion is that some new recording artist should partner with a FILM artist and promote themselves that way and skip the recording labels entirely. The backstreet boys are all pretty much broke now after selling how many CDs?