[Nyororin]

Originally Posted by TheCrimson

are you saying you're just a heartless consumer?

Being aware of the way that business functions doesn`t make me heartless.

the business aspect doesn't seem fair either. it's like "oh, if you have a rival artist on your TV station, you're effed and none of our artists will be on your channel ever again".

That`s what contracts are for.
You`re thinking of it in a very emotional way. Think of it this way;
Company A has a product similar to the product Company B and C offer. Customer A has a need for one of these products. Any of them will do. So Company A makes a deal with Customer A - If you only use our product, we`ll give you a discount and promise to always supply you with fresh refills. If Customer A agrees to this and then decides to just randomly ignore the agreement and use B or C - they`ve basically betrayed Company A. There is no reason for Company A to ever trust them to follow through on any agreement. Company A loses, Company A`s product loses, and there are a lot of bad feelings - especially if Company A worked hard to make their product perfect for Customer A.

and with this whole thing, it's sad how the people they get to be in the bands are usually not in a position to say no - they can't do anything else cause they're mostly uneducated, have a bad background, are poor etc etc.
another would be the music aspect of it.

Let me ask then - what would these people be doing if they hadn`t been invited into that system? They can say no anytime and leave. But being somewhat famous and having the chance to make it big generally outweighs any other opportunity.
Not EVERY person going into a band is uneducated. Not every one is from a poor background. It ends up being like any other business. There have to be people on the bottom working to support the top, which will possibly pull the bottom up later on. (The main reason the bottom works for them)

ever opened a copy of a VK magazine? open it, google half the bands mentioned in that magazine. if it isn't something you already heard the month before, please, point it out to me.

Substitute "VK" with any other media type out there. The same still applies.

and dear, what's a musician if he or she can't express his/herself? if you have some dude writing everything for you, you're not a real artist. they're just puppets that are there to rip every penny from your pockets.

The real artists DO express themselves (within reason), and the real artists DO write their own stuff. It`s the ones that are not, and would never be real artists without someone making everything for them that end up having everything made for them.
Basically the bottom works to hold up the top and the real artists, as art alone will not get you through life. If a label has 2 or 3 good and real bands, they still won`t make enough money to keep a label up and running... So there need to be at least twice that number of mediocre ones to provide the remaining money.