That nearly ruined the whole movie for me. If you lower it to one dollar why not just lower it all the way to zero (free). I mean whats the difference??????
Im so tired of the starving artist mentality.
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Boy, the Og-Man sure can run a line of sh!t, can't he?
I suppose it's because if the record company released it, she was getting a dollar anyway, but the way they did it online, it was a dollar as well but it went right to her instead of nine dollars going to the record company.
shareCoz £1 x 10 thousand is a lot more money than £0 times 10thousand..
shareIt was 10,000 in the first day. Give it a year, and it could be hundreds of thousands. It was a good move.
And, she doesn't have to remix, have it sold to Pepsi, etc.
Record deals pretty much always suck. They are like a bad loan from a greedy bank.
That way she could still pay all the musicians who played on on track, but she didn't end up going down the route of being signed to a label, who would make a ton of money all off all their hard work, who would continually try to make her look, act and sound a different way then what she actually is (so they can make more money). I really liked the ending.
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Because they need to make some kind of a living and pay the other musicians. I don't think she was worried about making $1 a CD, she was worried about someone else making $9 from it.
shareShe stayed true to her roots and beliefs concerning the record industry and still made what she would have made signing a contract with Saul, but she also kept creative control of her music.🐭
shareThose 2 professionally trained musicians? They worked for free on a condition of getting a piece of the profits. Hard to generate royalties if you are selling for $1. She'll still get significant radio royalties and the real money as a musician is in the performance fees.
shareso you are saying the 2 classical musicians are screwed anyway? it sounds like this is what you are saying.
...because they will get paid for coming out to do live performances. this means they have to do lots more work and be on the road if they want any pay.
at least we all agree there's no sense to charging $1
i say what's the diff from $1 to zero. why bother? noone has explained that to me yet.
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My three year old can comprehend the difference between 0 and 1. If you can't comprehend the ultra basic math of counting, this forum probably isn't for you.
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then again maybe you didnt. lmao
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The difference between 1 and 0 dollars is, if they gave away 10,000 records for free, they would make no money. If they sell 10,000 records for a dollar, that'd be $10,000. $10,000 is a lot more than $0. What's not to understand?
shareIm so tired of the starving artist mentality.
As a struggling musician, I can agree her decision was stupid. She could have made the same point with a 4 or 5 dollar sell price. It's next to impossible to make a living in music, artists who give stuff away are setting a terrible precedent that hurts others who would be expected to do the same.
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There certainly was a logic to the point that the production company had no real expenses making the recording as well as what was said concerning the plans for marketing the music. But on the point of giving it away, if I were a musician dependent on income from doing so (I do play but as a hobby), I think I would have blanched at that part of the ending. Bad precedent indeed.
Still loved the film, though.
What a stupid comment. Artists, just like any one else who does a job, deserve to be paid for their work. How do you expect artists to keep creating, producing, and releasing art if they don't earn some form of wage for it? Bills need to be paid, stomachs fed, and livings earned.
Her releasing it for a dollar on her own vs. releasing for 10 dollars with the record label meant she could offer the consumer the lowest price to purchase her album and also still turn a profit and split the earnings among the various musicians who contributed to the album.