Southern rockers the Allman brothers are suing their label, UMG Recordings, for $13+ million. They charge they have been “digitally exploited,” not getting their fair share of money earned from iTunes downloads, ring tones, and CDs of their recordings from 1969 to 1980.
I’m not sure if anyone’s really surprised by this. Capitalism is capitalism, money is money, and the cats that control the music industry are going to exploit artists until the artists stop letting them.
I think this is just another speck in the time line of the music industry’s (at least, as we know it now) destruction. Expect more artists to offer their music straight to the consumer for debatable cost, sans middle man, like Radiohead, NIN, and the plillions of music-loving indie musicians that have been doing it without any press mention.
Link:http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/13/arts/music/13arts-ALLMANBROTHE_BRF.html
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