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You get 100 people in a room and you hand each of them a musical instrument, you assign them groups randomly and then pay them to rehearse for $8 an hour for 8 hours a day, the bands would rotate members and occasionally get moderate pay increases. Eventually one of the bands would become truly great
and sell milions of records, but under contract they would still get only $8-$25 an hour.
Why would anyone willingly be a part of this? Because for one there would never be starving artists whether you were just starting out or been at it for 20 years you would always be getting a paycheck, and secondly since you are working 8 hours a day and arent being coddled like a spoiled baby your music would probably develop to its full potential at a quicker pace.
Plus this sort of format would make cds cheaper, incourage musical creativity.
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You know, it would be easier on everyone if we just shot all of the record company lawyers. |
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Why stop with the record companies's? |
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I didn't say we would... :P |
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This is pretty much how Motown worked. |
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Why on Earth would a record company want to pay people like this, when there are tens of thousands of musicians willing to pay for their own instruments, work crappy jobs that leave them time to rehearse, rehearse in their own space that they are probably paying rent on, write their own songs, then when they finally start to make it after months or years of their own slog and graft on the gruelling live circuit, the record company can sign them to a contract which effectively guarantees that all expenses are the bands, and all profits are those of the record company? |
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Reform of the relationship between professional musos, the public, and the record companies, is sorely needed, but this ain't it. |
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