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Originally posted by backoffbitch
The truth is, buying cd's only benefit the labels and distributors. The actual musicians get a ridiculously low cut off the cd's. To put it in perspective,... the Metalica black album only netted 10 cents per cd to the actual band. Where bands do make money is tours and other merchandice like t-shirts and posters.
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True to some degree, but if the record companies don't make the money they want from the album sales then the band has to pay for it.
There are great bands out there that will spend the next 10 years (literally) touring to pay back record companies because their albums didn't sell enough.
The recording industry is in for some big changes, which I believe may actually benefit the bands. I think recording and distibution companies will slowly disappear and promoters will become the big players, with bands higher up in hierachy than they are now.
Matt