From: "Glenn Meadows" 

Limo's, most likely, yes, coke, depends on how they hide it...LOL

Remember, all this stuff is advanced by the label, and recouped from future
sales, at the royalty rate. Very expensive loans.

If the royalty rate is 10%, then for each dollar in sales, 10% goes against
the recoupable balance.

If production costs are 100,000, then it takes 1,000,000 of sales to recoup that.

Wise artists are now paying their own production costs, to significantly
lower the recoupable balances.

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Glenn M.
"Geo"  wrote in message
news:457a6434$4{at}w3.nls.net...
> Do they count the lemo and the bag of coke as production costs?
>
> Geo. (what's the cost to produce a system administrator)
>
> "Glenn Meadows"  wrote in message
> news:4579e559$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>> I guess you don't take into account the cost to CREATE the material
>> that's
>> on the physical disk.  I guess that's produced for free then.
>>
>> --
>>
>> Glenn M.
>> "Bob.Ackley ."
 wrote in message
>> news:608fb6.8732bb{at}FidoNet.no-ip.info...
>> > Replying to a message of Mike N. to Geo:
>> >
>> > >> Now there is an interesting thought. Why doesn't
every laptop come
> with
>> > >> an FM radio built in? I mean how much could it cost,
$5 extra if it
>> > >> includes it's own antenna?
>> >
>> > MN>   The music industry is terrified of people recording music on
>> > their
>> > MN> PCs - particularly with HDRadio coming out.
>> >
>> > The music industry has been terrified of people recording music since
>> > reel-to-reel
>> > tape recorders became cheap enough for ordinary mortals to buy one.
> Only
>> > the
>> > technology has changed over the years.  Since the actual cost of
> producing
>> > a
>> > vinyl
>> > LP or an audio CD is less than $1 each (not counting royalty fees) it
>> > seems to
>> > me
>> > that the way for the industry to reduce unauthorized duplication of the
>> > material would
>> > be to sell them for $5 or less.
>> >
>> > --- FleetStreet 1.19+
>>
>>
>
>

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