it is the record "business", they are gonna make money whenever they can. the executives are in it for different reasons than the musicians. as a result, everything on the radio sounds the same, as they mimic the current money makers and ignore the creative artists that are doing something truly creative.

Because they are the "slave master" remember?! And in their pretend world you do as you are sold! The only choice you had was whether to sign the dotted line or not! And even then, chances are that you were already manipulated into the pit of contracts and fictitious living styles by previously arranged circumstances orchestrated by the invisible ones and evident only to some of us!

Big Record Labels = the fallacious state of a wanna be!
The lesson: Be careful of whom you play!
What you learned during enslavement period = 2 trust always in GOD!
What u still need = to know the Truth
How = By listening
Why = So you can begin to truly live!
The Reason = GOD cares for you! and so do I!

The record companies want more money to invest in profitable music with no meaning or feeling and reap the monetary value.

Simply because their slave is on "loan" while playing on another massa's plantation. Howz dat? --Mr. Cool

As a budding artist, this is a question I have wondered about for a long time. Musicians are often drawn together by something spontaineous, a moment in the studio, or sitting in during a friend's set for a jam session. How is something so pure and patently musical turned into more dollars and cents for a label? I believe that those moments where artists are creating with one another belong to the artists and the fans. Why shouldn't record labels pay them for the right to distribute/market under terms that the artist can negotiate?

4 the record companies, though they always claim that they care'bout their Artists most, they c them as tools of money machine. Once a singer/songwriter no longer attracting those foolish fans who only follows the fashionable packged idols, and left only with minor true fans who really care about the holiness of music creation, the record companies ditch them. While they c there is a potential investment return (in this case, Artists combining their idea and work on each others album), they simply come up with the excuse such as 'increase of budget' or 'intellectual property divided' and rationally demand xtra. T. A. B.

Record companies get paid xtra when artists choose 2 collabor8 in order 2 perpetu8 the hidden truth. When the bLIEf is that power can b threatened, record companies agree 2 xtra pay when artists join 4ces. When artists CONceive record companies as powerhouses, they buy in2 this lie. And as CONsumers, the public buys in2 it as well.

Egos have cre8ed a substitute 4 power upon which frustration, jealousy and greed have been CONstructed. Cash compens8s 4 cre8ivity in the minds of those who dny power its very essence by CONsidering it something capable of b ing CONtrolled, CONtained or compens8ed 4. MO< The truth is power is not a possession, it is simply possessed...Cre8ivity is power. Those who lack it fabric8 it. And another word 4 fabrication is LIE.