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Artists Vs. iTunes: Fight For Your Right To Suck! [Music]
Posted on August 28, 2008
Is iTunes helping the music industry or destroying it? That's the dramatic question we will answer for you in this post. Itunes is the single largest retailer of music in the US, period. It sells nine out of every ten digital song downloads in the country. And since it helped put the Tower Records of the world out of business, lots of artists think there's nowhere to go except iTunes. But how much money are (even famous) bands really making off all those 99-cent singles? Here's, uh, one perspective: Irving Azoff, the manager of numerous high-profile acts including the Eagles, says that a few...
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