Originally Posted by travman23 
RIAA can shove it where the sun don't shine. They make most the money off the CDs not the artists so I can care less. I read the breakdown of what the artist actually gets and for every $1 it's like 3 cents or something after the RIAA, the label, and distributors all take their cuts.
Anyone have a link or something to the actual breakdowns?
Wal-Mart Wants $10 CDs : Rolling Stone
This Rolling Stone story is based around the debate of Wal-Mart selling $10 CDs. At the very bottom is a pricing breakdown of where the money goes from a $15.99 CD sale, according to the Almighty Institute of Music Retail.
$0.17 Musicians' unions
$0.80 Packaging/manufacturing
$0.82 Publishing royalties
$0.80 Retail profit
$0.90 Distribution
$1.60 Artists' royalties
$1.70 Label profit
$2.40 Marketing/promotion
$2.91 Label overhead
$3.89 Retail overhead
