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> But I simply don't see why so many people hate the majors. Please
> explain to me. I'd love to understand your point of view (and I think I
> can counter many arguments with reasonable facts).
>

Fair enough, you made the point earlier about bad experiences being with A&R
etc. However for all intents and purposes these ARE the company. Also, the
majors seem to have more than a few layers of abstraction between themselves
and the marketplace shown by the continued success of indie artists in the
mainstream.

The current mainstream music scene is dominated by homogenity (within
genre...), I see that as being the biggest problem I have with major record
labels.

Second they do seem to be trying to exert a disproportionate amount of
control over distribution, marketing, copyright etc. That is worrying as the
whole idea of what copyright is has been overinflated in the eyes of those
who hold it and degraded in the eyes of those who should respect it.

OK, when majors do it right it can be a wonderful thing, however there are
so many people in the way down the line, not to mention the artists
management! Looking at the music industry from a business perspective it
could be viewed as a mugs game or the biggest scam going. Record company
contracts surely have to be the most water tight legal documents in the
world, they cover everything past, present and future.

Please feel free to pick holes (large) in the above argument :-)
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