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Originally Posted by Stu

Jesus christ.

I never said it was not time consuming or expensive. I said it was getting cheaper and more efficient, which it is. As technology improves, it can be produced and thus sold for cheaper. As technology improves, it also speeds up otherwise difficult processes.

Producing a named electronic album today is about a third of the cost of producing the same album ten years ago, which was a third of a cost of producing it ten years prior.

You do realise how many albums these smaller bands have to sell before breaking even don't you? Thousands man. They wont even bother now that people are stealing off them for nothing. Again, I've mentioned this before and I have friends who work in sound recording. Its still expensive and time consuming and you're clutching at straws here anyway. This is theft, plain and simple. Anyway, I'm done here.