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Originally Posted by Phogg
Music is'nt tanking though. Just the old line recording industry.
There are thousands and thousands of small time musicians taking a piece of the pie. Which is pretty much what existed before the rise of recording technology.
I'm all for this, and have been buying mostly smaller artists through independant chanels since 1998. Green Linnet's high prices got me searching for more affordable celtic music to launch this.
And I will most likely buy heavily from writers directly in the future, just as I buy my music that way now.
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I doubt if you buy your music directly from the writers-I rather suspect you mean you buy it directly from the studio. (Which might be an independent studio operated by the writer, but more likely by the band if it's truly 'direct'.)
The analogy here, I think, would be buying your music directly from the song writer rather than from the band. Thinking that publishers add no value to an author's work is like thinking the song is 'finished' when the song writer finishes writing it. IMO it's not 'finished' until it's performed & recorded-and even then it's usually performed & recorded many times, with tweaks, before it's released. (Consider the input of the publisher's editor & proofreader for books.) The analogy fails, of course, when the song writer is him(her)self a member of the band.