>>>>>   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.

OK, I think I can agree with that.

It doesn't cost anywhere near as much money to make music as it does to 
make a film. (Films, after all, typically *include* music.) I was just 
saying that making music is nowhere near as cheap as it sounds.

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