This says a lot about the CCM industry- how record co's treat artists

[Don62]

Sorry. I just had to get this off my chest. From some other discussions on how supposed Christian record co's mistreat their legacy artists. Ever wonder why you cannot buy great CCM anymore?

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[email protected]

Walter G€ ¦örlitz wrote:
> On 2007-04-01 04:31 PM, [email protected] wrote:
>> Well, these are NOT bootleg cd's. These are Pirate
>> cd's. Pirates are copies of legitimately available cd's. Bootlegs
>> are different. Bootlegs are cd's that are not offiically available
>> anywhere. A pirate cd is a rip-off because the artist gets no
>> royalty. A bootleg on the other hand is something that the artist
>> does not have available for sale anyway, so the artist is not
>> losing any money.
>
> By this definition, a lot of the Christian music industry is selling
> pirates since many artists never see royalties because their albums
> never sell well enough to cover the cost of production that the
> labels demand be covered.

The issue of the artist getting any royalties is totally different. Most
artists won't see any or not very much from record sales. Just ask Larry
Norman, Phil Keaggy, Pat Terry, Mark Farner and thousands of others who
have been burned by the record companies.

The CDs that The Imperials are selling, are CDRs. These are mass produced by a duplication company that The Imperials are using. All the masters are owned by Providence, Word, and EMI so there is no way for The Imperials to get a hold of the Masters.

So they went to the next best thing and restored the recordings from LPs and other CDs that were already released.

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Great going CCM industry. Screw your customers. No wonder the music sounds so lame and cardboard these days.

 

[VERITAS DE VOCE]

However, this is telling...

Isn't this like a conversation with most CCM PDs or GMs. "OH, boss, I have an idea..." <boisterous interruption> "Hrmph, whatever your name is. This is how we do it at big Jesus... ER... Christian-American radio."

And on goes the mindless rant that bores us to tears. It's off base, off topic and off kilter.

My guess? Don is a PD in somewhere USA. ;D

 

[hammondo]

Enjoying!
Peace!

 

[Don62]

It's very related to the radio industry, since CCM seems to be in bed with the record co's.

DJs take trips, meet the labels and their artists at big industry shows, report glowing things about all the wonderful greedy record co's, etc., all the while shooting their past stars.

Heck, Randy Matthews and others had to drop out of the industry because the labels and raido wouldn't support them.

Matthews, considered one of the pioneer CCM artists, now works as a pirate at a resort.

I think that alone says alot about the crummy state of CCM.

Looks like record co's really love to treat their "stars" well.

It's as if CCM choses to not only ignore, but send their pioneers to the poor house.

Perhaps the industry needs to erect poor-houses where these older artists can live, much like Hollywood does for some of its struggling aging artists.

Then again, that would expose CCM's arrogance and the way it just loves its pioneers.

 

[Don62]

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[email protected]

> By this definition, a lot of the Christian music industry is selling
> pirates since many artists never see royalties because their albums
> never sell well enough to cover the cost of production that the
> labels demand be covered.

I found the above post from another Internet discussion very informative. I don't see CCM going after downloaders. If they did, they'd have blood on their hands as they have for years been mistreating CCM artists.

Ask Kenny Marks, David Meece, et. al.

This is the kind of material you don't see much on this CCM appreciation board.