Also happened to me. Worst Christmas ever. I was mortified. I was smart enough to know that I didn't want it even back then, seemed like too much hassle and too big a mess.

Soooooo, I know it's been a week later but I just got chills reading your Macy's story. Almost the exact same thing happened to be. Rather thank I cowl neck I got her a lace collar. She literally told me she would have rather had the money. It was the first time I had had a job and I think it might have been the…

Total sidebar. There is a Chrome extension called "Awesome Screenshot" that can crops and screenshot the desired part of loaded page. Ed L.'s really dreadful review of Ruby's Crab Cakes wouldn't have required 4 separate photos. Example here. xo

Great buy, thanks Shep! Will replace my current kitchen scale...

Great buy, thanks Shep! Will replace my current kitchen scale...

As someone who has been in the music industry a long time the I'm betting reason is two fold. If one territory releases on a Friday and another on a Tuesday one of those two territories will be forced to content with an album out ahead of them in another territory. For example, if a record is released in the US on a…

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No actually it doesn't. You have to remember when the artist assumes all the costs they also assume all of the profits. Instead of having a full label behind them and paying for that service they now pay a small staff to manage label functions. If their royalty rate was 20%, now their royalty rate is 100% but that…

Oh and by the way, I don't know where you learned about the music business but guessing it's a mail order joint...the Master CD (Gold Copy? What is this 1980?) is the original product.

Um no, all that's required is a high quality digital file, including his digital negative. Just like in music.

Nonsense, the artist or labels aren't looking to charge you for every listen they'd just like you to pay once. Apparently $10 is too much for you to pay to support an artist.

Your argument is so foolish, the artist is asking to be paid once. Just like the air conditioner guy is asking to be paid once. However Mr. Air Conditioner man gets paid based on the number of air conditioners he services. The artist is asking to be paid based on the number of people who own his music, not the number…

No, they expect you to pay once for you to listen to a song or album as much as you like.

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Hmmmm, I guess you mean nada, zip, nil plus at least $2100 for one album (that soundscan shows was selling around 100 a week at the time) in 2006:

I can't find that interview. The only thing I can find online is a dispute over royalties with David Geffen from way back in the 60s. Got a link? That said I'm in the music business as well and have been for about 20 years and I can say with 100% certainty that payments to the artists have gotten much better. It's…

I'm not missing his point. Artists give away music for free all of the time with the blessing of the publisher and the songwriter. Just because they don't choose to give all of it away and they'd prefer to make some money from their music it doesn't mean that the publishers don't clear gratis downloads and other…

The publisher gets paid essentially for collecting and administering the royalties. Of couse they get a fee, they do a job for the artist. It would be like you being a bill collector. You aren't expected to do that job for free, you get a fee for collecting for the owner of the company.

That's not the case and I don't know why you'd suggest that. There are plenty of artists who give away free music, with the blessing of their publisher and the songwriters who also have to consent to giving away the music. The only time it becomes a bone of contention is when you have a company like Grooveshark who…

Do you not grasp that the publishers collect royalties for the songwriters? You seem to be advocating that music should be free so I'm asking how do you expect the songwriters to be paid if their publishers can't/won't collect? It's a simple question.

What would you like the songwriters to simply write the songs for free while they work at their local McDonalds? Do the artists themselves not deserve a share of the royalties?