Mick is talking about media sales...concert income seems to be irrelevant to the discussion. As members of the Stones are wealthy, as well as admitted (former)drug users, I fail to see the relevance of the "Ozzie" statement.
As for formats, vinyl until 8-track came out, 8-track until you got tired of wedging a matchbook between the cartridge and the player housing then cassette, cassettes until CDs because of greater longevity for the CDs, the melding of audio and visual represented by music video/ concerts on VHS, MP3s for greater capacity (same for FLAC but with greater fidelity). People who couldn't afford to replace their collections every time a format change happened bought blank media and transferred the music to the newer media; the hardware and blank media being cheaper than repurchasing the music on the new media.
As for the everybody that Mick's talking about, I'd assume he's referencing the groups and individuals that had a similar amount of fame/publicity as the Stones, not the virtually countless ones that recording execs took severe advantage of.
Copyright extension, as I recall, was driven more by visual media than audio, the time period Mick is talking about would still be covered by copyright, even without the "Mickey Mouse/ Sonny Bono" extension, and resale of material driven by format change would've still resulted in the same paltry percentages for the artists as the original.
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Mick is talking about media sales...concert income seems to be irrelevant to the discussion. As members of the Stones are wealthy, as well as admitted (former)drug users, I fail to see the relevance of the "Ozzie" statement.
As for formats, vinyl until 8-track came out, 8-track until you got tired of wedging a matchbook between the cartridge and the player housing then cassette, cassettes until CDs because of greater longevity for the CDs, the melding of audio and visual represented by music video/ concerts on VHS, MP3s for greater capacity (same for FLAC but with greater fidelity). People who couldn't afford to replace their collections every time a format change happened bought blank media and transferred the music to the newer media; the hardware and blank media being cheaper than repurchasing the music on the new media.
As for the everybody that Mick's talking about, I'd assume he's referencing the groups and individuals that had a similar amount of fame/publicity as the Stones, not the virtually countless ones that recording execs took severe advantage of.
Copyright extension, as I recall, was driven more by visual media than audio, the time period Mick is talking about would still be covered by copyright, even without the "Mickey Mouse/ Sonny Bono" extension, and resale of material driven by format change would've still resulted in the same paltry percentages for the artists as the original.