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Originally Posted by Ozarkz
They may have grabbed 6 million but they pissed off A LOT of their fans while doing it.
Thank you captain obvious.. YES cutting out the record company netted them more money.. But it didn't help the fact that 60% of their "fans" steal their music.
Imagine how much they would profit if they cut out the record company AND 80% of their fans paid for the albums?
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first of all it not 60% of their fans didn't pay, was 60% of the downloaders didn't pay.
Survey after the fact determined that most of those people were new radio head listeners who gave them a try because the it was free.
second, everyone who downloaded gave their email address, so radio head was able promote their tours, send people people thru ticket master and collect affiliate commision on their own ticket sales.
Given the fact that such a promotion done by the record company would have been a charged expense+ their paid commision they made more money off the freeloaders then they would have gotten due to a standard record deal.