Orchid XP v8 <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
> >>>   How much does it cost to create one CD of music?
> > 
> >> Instruments and training are expensive, depending on what the musician 
> >> plays.
> > 
> >   Worth 100 million dollars? I don't think so.

> Instruments, kitting out a studio, staffing it with talented 
> professionals, paying their wages while they edit the music down, mix 
> it, work with the artist(s) to make it sound right. The guys who send 
> the mixdown to the fab where the CDs get pressed. The graphic artists 
> who design the cover. The PR people who promote the thing once it's on 
> the shelves.

  I'd say something along the lines of 100 *thousand* dollars. Not
100 *million* dollars.

  I'd say three orders of magnitude of difference is even generous.

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                                                          - Warp

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