[citation][nom]pocketdrummer[/nom]I find it amusing how hard people fight to save a dollar. A dollar that could fund a company or an artist so that others can enhance their lives through their work. Ultimately, those who fight to keep piracy alive will end up penniless themselves... in a manner of speaking.[/citation]
You make it sound as if the artists actually get the money from sales? Most people know they only get a fraction. Many artists have shifted focus from making a ton of albums to making a bunch for promo, and then earn money on ticket sales for concerts.
An easy example of concerts being the income source :
Two years ago I was at a Metallica concert here in Denmark.
Tickets for us at the front cost about 95-100€, and for huge rest about 75€
I don't remember the exact amount of people attending, but I think it was about 45.000. 3K of those had the expensive tickets, the rest the 'normal' ones. That's just under 3,5 million euro income for one nights work. I don't know how much of that metallica actually gets, but it's rumored to be about 60% - making each of them earn half a million euro for a single performance. A great performance that is, but still a much greater paycheck. Now consider how many legal copies of st. anger they'd have to sell to match their concert tour? I wouldn't dare guess on that number, but I know they've got 5 or 6 concerts planned in denmark this year - and all but one is sold out. My point is - the artists get promotion from cd sales, the distributor and producer gets income from it. Artists have a much better income source from concerts and royalties for being aired here and there.
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