Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site mit-eddie.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxn!ihnp4!mit-eddie!nessus From: nessus@mit-eddie.UUCP (Doug Alan) Newsgroups: net.music,net.women Subject: Madonna again Message-ID: <5020@mit-eddie.UUCP> Date: Sun, 18-Aug-85 01:33:53 EDT Article-I.D.: mit-eddi.5020 Posted: Sun Aug 18 01:33:53 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 20-Aug-85 20:29:20 EDT Distribution: net.music,net.women Organization: MIT, Cambridge, MA Lines: 31 Xref: watmath net.music:8860 net.women:6975 > 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. Like a version, Beta-tested for the very first time Doug Alan nessus@mit-eddie.UUCP (or ARPA)