[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> It's amazing that Garth Books has any time, or brain, left to make music. He
> seems to be completely obsessed with making as much moeny as he possibly can,
> obsessed, possessed, it ain't healthy. How much money does one recording
> artist need to make? We'd all like to have a little piece of Garths's pie,
> it'd be nice to pay bills and buy a car, and get a decent haircut once in
> awhile, but geeze, if you've got more money than you can count, why not leave
> the little used CD stores alone.
I think that in Garth's case it is not about money at all anymore. It
is strictly 'stats' if you will. He is doing everything he can to break
this record or that record. Even if it takes trickery, as in the case
of the Handleman eight day week for sound scam purposes. Or using
pricing that is way below industry standards to inflate the numbers, as
with the box set or with the live set (this was initially offered at a
25% discount from the label) or with his concerts (last time through
here he charged %25 to play the local arena, sold it out 4 times, when
groups of that stature are charging 3-4 times that much)
Now please don't think that I have a problem with lowering prices. I
would love it. I just want to point out that he is willing to lose
money in order to top the Beatles or Pearl Jam or somebody's meaningless
statistic.
Bill Lavery
http://villagerecords.com/
