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well first off being straight with the label you work with should be common sense. what J00F said goes for all business in all industries...you need to be honest and disciplined when working with people. its called being professional. he's probably running into unprofessional people more and more simply because there's so many young kids sending in tracks to labels now because of accessibility, and they have zero experience in business situations. everything they've learned, they've learned from TV and movies 
Lolo, you mentioned increased costs of bread etc. thats not a new phenomenon like the internet/mp3s imo, but I do agree it certainly contributes to the problems an artist has paying the bills simply because his/her wages/income haven't increased with the rate of inflation because the industry has gone belly-up.
also, mp3 sharing has certainly hurt the major labels. the big guys over here in the US are scrambling right now to figure out how to adapt. of course they didn't get hit or blindsided like the indie labels (cause of the amount of capital/assets they own). but when you've got major artists like madonna leaving the major labels in the dust nowadays, you know they're hurting, change is coming.
as for your question of why to we have to pay for this crisis? not sure if you mean we the indie labels or we the consumer...but either way its we who have created this pedestal for the commercial artists. its consumerism that has driven the progression from simple passionate music writing to huge labels controlling the airwaves. the labels could never have come this far without the consumers pumping money into them. they have nothing if the consumer decides to stop paying their money and stop paying attention to them. the major labels don't truly control the markets, in the end it is the consumer who has the control.
look at itunes as an example. 22% of all music sales in the U.S. is now done through itunes. its not because steve jobs is an evil businessman raping our natural resources. its because the latest generation (15-30 yr olds) has adopted the ipod as their go-to media player...even though there's wonderful alternative media players out there. apple simply has a cooler more consistent ad campaign compared to the practically non-existant ad campaigns put out by other companies. the consumer hasn't taken the time to research the media player market, they've decided that because ipod is in their face, it must be the best.
problem is most people don't take half a second to realize this and they'd rather bitch about major corporations controlling the world instead of getting together and changing things. hippie movement as not (for the most part) and will not be the force for change. there's too much emotion wrapped up in that world and not enough discipline and education.
I don't know how to solve this music industry issue, but luckily capitalism is fueled by competition in the markets which means a solution is bound to show up fairly fast compared to other methods for creating change. we'll see how things go.
Last edited by Infinit on Dec-24-2007 at 20:09
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. Personally I hate the spelling police types, it's ignorance, snobbery and often hypocrisy to the highest degree. Not everyone here has English as a first language, some may be dyslexic like myself.
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