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Originally Posted by Tuna
Talking of which, I was reading this week about Lilly Allen's decision to quit music after producing two very well received albums. Her take is that she cannot make a living from music when the vast majority of her fans get digital copies rather than buying the album legitimately. She toured like crazy this summer, but it appears not enough. If we can ignore whether or not her music is any good, how do you feel about that?
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Actually, that more or less comes down to her having negotiated a shit contract, where she gets nearly no money from CD sales. A lot of information can be found about these practices online, and it's one of the reasons why artists tour so much these days (they get a higher cut from those). To be honest, she should be grateful if the industry were to die, as it would've prevented her from signing a criminally unfavorable contract in the first place. It's the fault of those industries that they can't come up with new ways to generate revenue from the stuff she records, not the fault of the consumers who "aren't buying her enough". Never mind that there might be perfectly good reasons not to buy her stuff (such as not listening to her music because you don't like it overly much).