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Originally Posted by josh821
Although I think it's perfectly fine to "steal" music I'm not sure I agree with his statement that we're charged too much for CDs. Have you ever looked at the breakdown of where all the costs and profits go for your average band? I think it was Steve Albini who wrote up a long thing about that back in the late 90s or so when Napster was getting the spotlight. Basically what it came down to was that if you were a new band you were going to be really lucky to be able to pay off the advance your given to record an album. That was before record sales plummeted even, I'm sure it's much more difficult now. It's nice to imagine that the artist gets $.02 a CD and the other $15.98 is complete profit for some fat cats sitting up in their golden towers laughing but I don't think it really works out that way.
EDIT: Just noticed this:
"It also contains a DVD ROM (not a movie) that contains every track from Year Zero in multitrack format for you to do with what you please."
That's insanely cool and the fact that he sounds completely cool with the fact that those multitracks will end up on file sharing programs right away makes it even nicer. I've never heard of someone essentially giving away their masters.
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They're not the masters, they're bounced tracks (i.e. a track or two of "guitars" that are all the guitar tracks, already processed, bounced to stereo, etc.).
And actually, until they pay off the recording costs, the band and producer get $0 from each CD. When it's paid off, they get a small percentage (very small, I think it was something like 8% or something, more if they got writing credits, which usually only the singer, or whoever wrote the songs), and the producer gets his percentage, but paid back to the first CD sold, the band gets paid starting with the first CD
after the advance is paid off.