Waters:...All record companies are profit-oriented. The holy grail for them is to discover the motherlode of popular taste, in order that they should move huge numbers of the product. And they were always that way, in my view...

Rog! Duh! Do you really expect employees of record companies to work for free? Do you really expect investors (stockholders) to want their corporation to give away free services to every 4th rate moron who thinks he's a musician, just so said musician can "understand their connection with the mathematics of life"?

Rog And Trent, did it ever occur to you two that record companies have to charge more for known artists like yourselves (Trent) and "discover the motherlode" (Rog) to re-coup all the revenue wasted in producing CD's for crap bands that never sell?

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