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Originally Posted by Thinny
You're answered your own point there. It's all being done as cheaply as possible. There isn't something that they are going to throw any time or money at to put out great quality material. They are doing it a cheaply as possible in order to make the most money. This is not fan service, it's purely a money making excercise. Surely that's clear by now?
My main gripe is that they clearly have the whole shows recorded, why just give people 3 songs? Just do the whole damn show. They already have the footage it would probably take less time to just put the whole thing out there, than it would to edit it down to 3 tracks. My guess would be is that more songs means more royalties/publishing to pay - so again, a way to do it as cheaply as possible...
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Agreed on all points - as sad as it is. As you pointed out - if they have someone sit down and cut out three arbitrary songs without doing anything else, they might just upload the whole thing which would be the same amount of "work".
Someone speculated here that it was some on-the-fly thing to bridge the gap of non-live shows a bit financially and intended as nothing more than that. By now, I tend to agree to this.
In terms or royalties - I'm curious if they hold the copyrights to their own live shows or are these usually in the hands of the record company as well? Does anyone know how that usually works?