Big record companies have had it their own way for too long. Artistes like Marillion, Radiohead and Joseph Arthur have shown that a new financial model can work, that you don't have to pay massive sums to labels to get your records produced. And the idea that a big concept album will be more expensive to produce seems to me to be ill-founded. Why should it? Jeff Wayne in 1978 made certain sound effects on his classic "War of the worlds" album the old-school way; didn't cost a fortune.
If you want me to cry into my beer because the poor Record Executives will be buying smaller personal jets or holidaying closer to home because their bubble has finally been burst, and their chickens come home to roost, you'll have a long wait.
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