[steve-b]

Music Industry Honcho: But... but... we must treat our customers like criminals... it's how we have always done things... it's how we must always do things... it's how the Aztec Monkey God who appeared to me that time I snorted three lines off a hooker's ass told me to do things....

[collapses, wisps of smoke puffing out his ears]

[a fool in paradise]

It’s also about “controlling” the image.

Wasn’t always like that. And if you are “good enough”, the artists (maybe not their management but the performers) can be appreciative (as long as it isn’t intrusive).

Youtube videos often look like crap and sound like mud though. The cameras have too much shake and don’t give a “good” impression what a performance was like.