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Originally Posted by John Eppstein  Nope. It's quite the reverse. In the fan feeding frenzy following an artist's death many people will buy everything they don't already own. At the going price. |
yeah, I'm sure the music biz accountants know more about this stuff than I do and I'm sure they have numbers to back it up.
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Originally Posted by John Eppstein In Houston's case there's another factor - she didn't write her own songs and songwriter and publishing royalties don't change. |
oh yeah, good point. Usually when people say the music industry isn't innovative enough or they move too slowly, there are actually legal and licensing issues that make the layman's "solution" impossible. The same is true for a lot of the apparently "dumb" decisions made by the movie industry.