RE: Kids and music today

["Gregory Adams" <greg@essex1.com>]

They have very short careers and very little support from their record
companies, I'd say.  They're lucky if they can parley their fifteen minutes
of fame into a second career.  One thing that helped the sixties/seventies
rock 'n' rollers from selling out was that their music made enough money for
thim to live comfortably.

keets

This is QUITE the reason that I feel limited sympathy for the record
companies and RIAA for the file sharing dilemma.  Truthfully I would very
much want to give the artists their proper due, but for reasons you just
stated, it seems that IF the money was distributed properly and everyone
benefitted, then I would see their side, but as CD's never went down in
price (even after no longer importing), rock artists like Bill Haley dying
peniless (and I know that this is partly due to managerial screwing, poor
handling of tapes (Who's Next in a dumpster..), and just simple greed AND
censorship, it is not a perfect world...  However, I think 60's and 70's
artists (the ones that survived) simply care more for their music and
artistry...

Greg A.