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Major Or Indie Deal?

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Tha Psycho Hustla:
but da net fucks up sales and everything.net is good for promotion nothing else.

Tay:
The net did affect it but records are still selling, not as much hip-hop and rap. Another thing is how many artists there are, it's so tough to get promotion and get noticed. Personally, I'd release independent and take a major if they offered good money, but be ready to leave the label if they didn't want to release an album or promote me. If I put so much time, money and effort into a project, it's going to be released, not sit on the shelves because a record executive.

Elevz:
Here goes the same old discussion again. I don't believe the net fucks up sales.

I was just browsing through Bob Dylan's wiki page. Dude sold mad records in the sixties, nicely in the seventies but downhill from there. Only as soon the net went big, he started selling big time again. It seems like we have a picture of the past in our minds, as if everyone was buying up huge piles of records back then, until the internet came along. Let's be real; the internet offers a lot of opportunities for people to get heard, to such an extent that they'll end up being better off from all the bootlegging. For every fan that doesn't buy the music because he's already downloaded it for free, there's two new people who otherwise wouldn't have heard the artist's music.

And let's face it: if the record industry really were in a bad state, why do you think all these artists would be getting more attention than ever before? Why do you think random celebreties bring out records, if there's no money in it?

I must say though, the topic is rather vague to me. Major or indie deal, for what? For if you hypothetically were an artist? For somebody else with a lot of star potential?

I'd get me a good indie deal. Creative control, that's what you need if you're really in it for the music. Good music will sell itself, and there'll be a market for it. A good indie label would know how to reach for that market. Plus, without all the pressure of having to go three time platinum to break even, I guess life as an artist would be better.

Javier:
Radiohead was basically giving out their album for free for the last three months of the year, yet when the actual CD came out it was still number 1

7even:
They are just shifting the blame. It happens all the time. Young outcasts get shotguns and kill people in their school, it's videogames causing it. Same shit. Lately in Germany there's this discussion because foreigners beat up people for no reason all the time. So some politicans with no nuts go ahead and want to soften the tv program. How retarded is that? It happens all the time. People are shifting the blame towards something that is less akward to ciriticize, or that has less of a lobby to counter.

It also never ceases to amaze me how sloppy record companies can be when it comes to retails. I mean, obviously, one does not have to buy the CD because of the music as such. So what to do about that? Maybe doing a better job with the physical stuff of the CD. Like, better bootlegs, lyrics in the bootleg, ringtones, better artwork, maybe even lying about having some crazy audio-ray sound quality on it. Whatever, really. But it seems like the whole record industry simply laid back being lazy and all and keeps crying about the internet killing them. Doing trash CD covers and bootleggs, making contrived music with no inspiration, rapping about crimes and then going ahead to cry about people "stealing" their music. It is so pathetic.

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