sbl1---tell that to my bass player. he worked in the music industry as a comany wide store manager, and just lost his job last friday due to "downsizing"

 music cd sales have dropped 1/4 since 2000.

so if your store sold a million cds in 2000, now your out 250,000 cds.

sorry to hear that. I'd bet the corporate executives of his company didn't lose any sleep over it, and probably didn't take a pay cut either. CD's have always been over-priced, while the artist (the true earner of the money) gets such a relatively small cut of the CD sales. I wouldn't mind paying $16 for a CD if I knew that a good fair chunk of it would actually get to the artist/songwriter.

The times are changing. Technology slows for no one. I'm sure sooner or later the big record companies will figure out a way to charge for every download and that's fine, but until then I'll use Kazaa while I can.

Overpriced CD's arent the problem.  Its the artists choice how much to sell their work for.

The problems with downloading music really depends on who the research is funded by.  Big record companies will fund research telling us that downloading music is destroying their business, loosing millions.  Other research will show that it actually increases record sales.

Anyway, finally the record companies are embracing the new technology.  Offering legal downloads of songs for dirt cheap.

the artist has no say in what the cd is sold for. there are about ten middlemen from the recording studio to the record store. a multi-diamond selling artist will be lucky to get over 1 dollar for their cd and on top of that, then they have to pay back the record company for recording, promoting, production, and then any little f**ker who has a hand in his final profits. The average new band doesn't make an actual profit for the first two albums.

for more info on ALL the REAL stuff in the music industry click this=

http://www.mosesavalon.com/introduction_flash.htm

.....and try the royalty calculator....its unreal

[QUOTE=Tamadrummer]Fastest I've heard is the guy from Nile, Joey is fast, and I bet on the new record he'll be even faster, the most creative double bass belongs to Raymond Herrera from Fear Factory, that man can play anything.[/QUOTE]

u no on linchpin when it goes cray on the burts of double bass, is that him playing co i thort it was a drum machine

is it????

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No that's him, he uses triggers on his drums, and if you want to know why listn to their demo CD "concrete", you can't really pick out the bass drum pattern.