Keep blaming others while still putting out crappy overpriced products where the musician rarely sees much money from album sales. Plus the record companies deduct a lot of expenses especially when making video garbage and gilding their own nests. You imply that others to have to earn a living not just the musician. The musician should get most of the money, not the parasites. Plus the hanger ons should get a real job. The problem is that musical talent is being stifled and the mass exposure outlets are restricting free expression. Prior to the 90s, you could switch from radio station to station and get a lot of variety in musical tastes and styles, hear new music which were good, and actually hear DJs introducing new music/bands they liked. The braindead names of the current bands, faggy boy groups, girls singing and trying not very hard to not be sluts, thugs (c)rapping, divas sprouting and snorting, etc. are all indicative of the decrepitude of the current music scene.
Early in the 90s, the liberal rot really set in the music business. Interestingly Talk Radio became really popular from Rush to Howard Stern leading the pack when the music started to suck. You got more talking along with canned music shlock in the music radio stations. I am surprised that the music companies are not blaming Talk Radio for their self-inflicted woes for not being able to sell garbage.
Blah, blah, blah. Same old Marxist crap that gets recycled on these threads
ad infinitum.
Who are the "parasites" and "hanger ons" you refer to? The songwriter? The producer? The studio musician? I suppose you think these people are insignificant factors and it doesn't matter if they're getting screwed. Is that what you call compassionate conservatism?