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From: nessus@mit-eddie.UUCP (Doug Alan)
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Subject: Madonna again
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Date: Sun, 18-Aug-85 01:33:53 EDT
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> From: smithson@calma.uucp (Brian Smithson)

> The idea that the "cretins" make it impossible for the "true" to make
> a decent living is deeply silly at best, and at worst it reflects a
> notion of scarcity which is more at the root of the world's problems
> than Madonna will ever be.

Tell this to someone like Bill Nelson, after his record company fired
him (leaving him without the rights to the album he'd just recorded and
heavily in debt) because his previous album *only* made it up to number
40 or so on the charts.

Because of people like Madonna, who just want to make as much money and
be as famous as possible without any regards to quality or integrity,
record companies are not often satisfied with just making a profit on
someone who works in the pop/rock domain.  You have to have the
potential to make megabucks.  If you're not going to stoop to the level
of Madonna so that you can compete, the record company isn't going to
deal with you.

It's not just the fault of people like Madonna.  The record company's
probably more at fault, but without people like Madonna to be symbionts
with the record company in their notion of making money through formula
commerciality rather than creativity and artistry, the record companies
couldn't and wouldn't work that way.

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			Doug Alan
			 nessus@mit-eddie.UUCP (or ARPA)