I agree that stealing is easier and cheaper. ;) However I am inclined to believe that more people would buy music if it wasn't ridiculously overpriced...

There are two matters to consider here: the legal and the moral.You have a valid point about the contracts being freely agreed between the parties. Ho...

I wrote a song for Viridian a while back that mixes alternating bars of 9/8 and 5/8 on the verse and then reverts to 4/4 for the chorus. It was an exp...

Being the greatest musician of all time is overrated. Think about it: in all likelyhood you'll be so far ahead of your time that you'll end up having ...

Generally speaking, there's a mechanism called compulsory mechanical licencing that operates in pretty much the same way worldwide. This means that wh...

From my experience, the Shure mikes have a more clearly defined "character" - in that they colour the sound more - than the Sennheisers. The Sennheise...

[...] the record companies [...] rob both consumers and the artists who record for them) How's that? I originally planned to answer in some depth, b...

This question reminds me of the time when I had a one-gig stint with a shanties band and had to learn something like 30 songs over a week. :D For me ...

No matter how we look at the issue, it's a problem to be dealt with. While I have no direct dealings with the RIAA (living in Poland), I find myself r...