[Rumori] re: Songwriters Say Piracy Eats Into Their Pay

[David meme]

Actually this is not true. CD sales translate into the record deal (and 
yes musicians often forget about this linkage - ie you have to pay it 
back out of record sales before you see anymore music)... many tours 
lose money - although merchandise is a nice little earner...

When someone presented Cobain with the fat record deal cheque it was 
actually money for *future* record sales...




On 7 Jan 2004, at 20:04, Samuel Carey wrote:

> not to split hairs, but most artists make their money off touring, not 
> cd sales...
>
> kurt cobain made a paltry amount of Nevermind sales... talks about 
> income always remind me of  an interview with him from Rolling 
> Stone... published between August 2003 and August 2004?
>
> I guess it really doesn't illustrate the point as well as I hoped... 
> but hardly any of the money from CD sales gets to the artist...
>
>
> RS: People usually assume that someone who has sold a few million 
> records is really livin' large. How rich are you? How rich do you 
> feel? According to one story, you wanted to buy a new house and put a 
> home studio in it, but your accountant said you couldn't afford it.
> KC:Yeah, I can't. I just got a check a while ago for some royalties 
> for Nevermind, which is pretty good size. It's pretty weird, though 
> really weird. When we were selling a lot of records during Nevermind, 
> I thought, "God, I'm gonna have like $10 million, $15 million." That's 
> not the case. We do not live large. I still eat Kraft macaroni and 
> cheese -- because I like it. I'm used to it. We're not extravagant 
> people.
> I don't blame any kid for thinking that a person who sells 10 million 
> records is a millionaire and set for the rest of his life. But it's 
> not the case. I spent a million dollars last year, and I have no idea 
> how I did it. Really. I bought a house for $400,000. Taxes were 
> another $300,000-something. What else? I lent my mom some money. I 
> bought a car. That was about it.
> RS: You don't have much to show for that million.
> KC: It's surprising. One of the biggest reasons we didn't go on tour 
> when Nevermind was really big in the States was because I thought: 
> "Fuck this, why should I go on tour? I have this chronic stomach pain, 
> I may die on this tour, I'm selling a lot of records, I can live the 
> rest of my life off a million dollars." But there's no point in even 
> trying to explain that to a 15-year-old kid. I never would have 
> believed it.
>
>
> David meme <david at locarecords.com> wrote:
>
> That is how musicians make money - from CD sales.
>
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