| Producers of any product are more than free to do with it whatever they'd like--sell it, give it away, burn it, pound it down a rat hole. That's what makes us free and not slaves.
If he doesn't have any conflicting contract arrangements, I don't see the problem. He doesn't owe anyone anything--if anyone invested millions in him, they should have secured contracts detailing how they would be compensated.
As far as owing the industry in general anything--if it can't pay my bills, I'm not going to pay its bills--no matter what kind of a relationship we've had in the past.
Once someone gets the balls to raise prices, things will start to look up for the sickly music industry. Lowering prices isn't going to do s$%t. |