In a recent interview with the guys at Digg.com Trent Reznor of the Nine Inch Nails went through some interesting responses to questions about how he sees his future and the future of music.
To quote him from the AudioLife blog page:
“One of the biggest wake-up calls of my career was when I saw a record contract. I said, ‘Wait – you sell it for $18.98 and I make 80 cents? And I have to pay you back the money you lent me to make it and then you own it? …

Pump Audio evolves from innovator to corporate dinosaur. The great rock and roll swindle lives on!
See: Pump Audio Reduces Music Royalties By 30%
So, things going bad at Pump eh? no cash to invest in growth?
Hell! why not take it away from the musicians! take their money instead?
I can see this ‘logic’ being worked out in an office full of suits. Suit one says, “hell boys we’ve got these artists by the balls, they ain’t going anywhere”. Suit two says, “lets make them investors in the business but, …