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Originally Posted by redforever
1. I did not explain myself well before. You have done it much better. This is what I was getting at. If you want a certain sound on your CD, a high quality sound, you will have to do one of two things. You will have to buy all of your own recording equipment and build your own studio to get that sound, or you have to be willing to fork out the money for someone else to do it for you. The CD in itself is cheap, it is the process of putting the music on the CD that costs money.
2. Yes, the artists probably do not see much of the profits that the recording studios make. On the other hand, if they never had someone to promote them, to record them etc, how much profit do you realistically think they would see then? Making music for a living is not much different than farming. The money you receive for your product is very small compared to the final selling price.
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True dat yo....actually, it's very very similar to the music industry. Lots and lots of overhead (think at least a quarter of a million dollar loan every year for seed, fertilizer, spray, etc...not to mention paying for equipment that costs nearly that much if not more new) before you even get the end product into the ground. so every year, you are down 250,000 bucks before you even begin work. kinda scary actually. and then there is the low cost of grain...whats wheat at now? 4 or so dollars a bushel? now how many bushels of wheat does it take to make a loaf of bread? what does that loaf of bread sell for? but it is kind of a cool feeling to know that you are literally feeding the world even if you are making not a helluva lot of money