While it's obvious this song is about how a band in the music biz gets fleeced, I took a couple classes on the music industry in college and it's impressive to see how accurate the whole satire is: In spite of being the raison d'etre for the music business, the artist gets a pittance of the money that's spent in the business, while footing the bill for damn near everything--if a company gives a few hundred units as a gift, the band eats the money lost. If the record exec takes a diamond-encrusted 747 to see how recording sessions are going, it's billed to the band. And this is if the band has a decently good contract.
A band really does end up with half of goodness-knows-what.
While it's obvious this song is about how a band in the music biz gets fleeced, I took a couple classes on the music industry in college and it's impressive to see how accurate the whole satire is: In spite of being the raison d'etre for the music business, the artist gets a pittance of the money that's spent in the business, while footing the bill for damn near everything--if a company gives a few hundred units as a gift, the band eats the money lost. If the record exec takes a diamond-encrusted 747 to see how recording sessions are going, it's billed to the band. And this is if the band has a decently good contract.
A band really does end up with half of goodness-knows-what.