im selling something i should get paid for it. i worte the songs and recorded them. i ha\d too pay for strings, picks, leads, amps and everything else we need too record as well as studio time and time for rehearsals. if you a signed too a deal with a record company and they pump £100,000 in to you and you make and album and only make £10,000 more than the £100,00 then the band will only get the £10,000 as the record company have too recoup there money. and anyway most recording legaly belong too the record companies who in them selves are stealing from musicans with the crap rates of royalties some bands get. if its an artist who finance everything them selves i pay a bit more for there record as i feel they deserve it for the amount of work thats needed too do that.