[StolarStorm]

Ahhh. but the music doesn't COST 35 cents to make... only to reproduce. The costs include studio expenses, royalties, promotion and much more. Granted, I do think that the record companies should drastically reduce the price they charge for music and sell it online. 16 bucks for a CD is absurd.

[Gigantor]

"...the music doesn't COST 35 cents to make... only to reproduce. The costs include studio expenses, royalties, promotion and much more."

Keep in mind that SOP is for the record company to charge the studio costs to the ARTISTS and deduct it from their share of the profits.

They charge the artists for hotel rooms, and limo's etc.

Creative accounting.

[Paleo Conservative]

Ahhh. but the music doesn't COST 35 cents to make... only to reproduce. The costs include studio expenses, royalties, promotion and much more. Granted, I do think that the record companies should drastically reduce the price they charge for music and sell it online. 16 bucks for a CD is absurd.

I read the article in PC-Magazine last night, and I disagree with Dvorak. Why should the royalties be a proportion of the manufacturing costs? Digital technologies are driving the marginal costs toward zero. What does it cost to download professionally made MP3 files and burn them onto a CD-ROM or DVD-ROM? If royalties should be proportional to the manufacturing cost, they also will go to zero!

[rdb3]

16 bucks for a CD is absurd.

Where are you? I haven't seen CDs sell for $16 in quite a while (that's in Dallas).

[madas_hell_04]

I think that these artists should stop complaining. God forbid they lose a little money and they don't get to get there heated floors or that 8th TV in the car, with playstation 2 and X Box and Gamcube on it. I mean come on. The money they get should go to teachers, because if it wasn't for teachers, they wouldn't be able to spell or write, or even count money. They need to do more concert's and other things to make money. Believe me from what I see, they ain't losing to much. I watch Cribs. So I don't feel a damn thing for them. If it's that bad maybe they should get a second job. Maybe being waiters or factory workers. Until then they need to stop crying.