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Topic History of: Full page ad in Guardian by UK Music Max. showing the last 5 posts - (Last post first)
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BarntheBarn
BarntheBarn wrote: Speaking of Lily Allen and, ummm, music for music's sake...this (Dan Bull set to Lily Allen's Catch 22 'Dear Lily') is pretty good...
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BarntheBarn
Speaking of Lily Allen and, ummm, music for music's sake...this (Dan Bull set to Lily Allen's Catch 22 'Dear Lily') is pretty good...
Michael
JK2006 wrote: I promise you SW, when I was penniless and so were some of the others, all we ever wanted to do was make music and we would happily have done it for free as long as people heard it.
That's still largely true for the vast majority of the bands and songwriters out there (I've been dealing with an awful lot of comments and requests since I did a piece on writers block). But what has changed is that the industry has lost 50% revenue over the past 10 years, and as the situation currently stands, music has become an expensive hobby for more people than before. The ceiling has been lowered considerably. Even the labels that have been created over the past 5-7 years have lower expectations than only 10-15 years ago; they are happy with the crumbs that are left. Personally, I think the P2P services should be licensed rather than penalised. But I have yet to see a P2P network offer to buy a licence.
JK2006
I promise you SW, when I was penniless and so were some of the others, all we ever wanted to do was make music and we would happily have done it for free as long as people heard it.
SW
So easy to say when you're as loaded as you are, JK.
Don't contribute towards dimishing the rights of artists/songwriters. Very foolish.
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