An online music store update

[smoothmoniker]

Originally posted by SteveDallas
... The labels are unwilling to pay the musicians what the musicians (almost all unionized) .

... are worth. It takes more expertise, time, talent, and training to become an orchestral musician than to become a neurosurgeon.

And it takes 90 of them in the same room to make an orchestral recording.

Beyond that, most of the work is done “for-hire”, but with what’s called a “special payments” clause, which means that in certain circumstances, the for-hire work is eligible for royalty payments. Going platinum is one such circumstance, re-issue in a new format is another.

-sm