Major Labels Just Want A Spotify IPO

When I found out Universal made around $500 million on the beats deal I realized that they are playing a different game. By they I mean big multi national corporations. Be it strip mining for coal or stripping rights and mining the music of artists. Greed is good and just move on to another mountain or video games as the case may be. Yes major labels are pushing Spotify towards an IPO and a big payday that will NOT include the artists and creators of music.

Here is what I believe
1) Indie music still accounts for 20%-25% of the official revenue from recorded music but if you could track every local band with a CD it would be much greater. Given a fair fight of talent against talent I will bet on the people with passion and heart over pocketbooks and procedures.

2) Music will NEVER die as long as we are here so is music.

3) Music is NOT free to create so it is NOT sustainable to be giving it away. It is also too important in our lives to be created by just hobbyists.

4) Most of the carpetbaggers who were in the music business for the fast easy cash have moved on. Now it is just those with a passion and a purpose left standing in the rubble. Yea baby it's all ours again.

5) There are no real rules in music so we are perfectly equipped to operate in an ever changing world without rules. Free to create a new music business from nothing like gods we are!!!!!

Alright I'm a little excited but don't you feel a little bit like a god when you create? Where there is silence we create sound. From papers white and devoid of all, we create words, poems, stories and even songs that touch on all three. But in the beginning like god we start with nothing and if we are lucky we look on afterward and see that our work is good.

I for one am moving forward to create the music business that I want to work in.