Exactly. Just as many people are downloading Radiohead, Bruuuuce, and others whose ticket prices remain low. I remember when CD's were first introduced the record companies said that as soon as cd's became mainstream the prices would drop, because it is a LOT cheaper to manufacture cd's than the old LP's and cassettes. This never happened. The prices stayed the same, and even increased in some cases, with the record companies pocketing all that extra revenue. I have no sympathy at all for the record companies. And now, with two of the world's largest record companies, BMG and SONY , about to merge, ( that is, if the senate antitrust committee approves the merger) we will be all the more at their mercy. on 11/19/03 3:27 PM, Anusha Rasalingam at anusha1@yahoo.com wrote:
2) Most of the diminished sales of an artist like Sting (or the Eagles or Fleetwood Mac etc. etc.) are related to diminished popularity/hipness than downloading. He's not going to have a platinum album just like that, as was the case 10-20 years ago. His income from recordings will therefore suffer. Napster doesn't help, but it's not the sole culprit as Miles would have us believe.