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Greed fuels the music industry: An electronic musician's take on the biz
How do musicians support themselves in the age of digital distribution, file sharing and whatnot? Here’s one musician / label owner’s take on the biz, complete with pie charts*.
“Many of us artists have people who enjoy buying and listening to our music. It’s time to starve out the portion of the music industry that has treated us so poorly, which is nothing short of ironic, because they need us a lot more than we need them.”
More a rant than an actual scientific study, the essay does raise notable questions about the future of how musicians are financially supported by their music.
*UPDATE: No source is given for the pie chart statistics so take the numbers with a grain of salt.
