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At the time I attempted to purchase the rights back for the 3 Homestead records, but the owner demanded an outrageous sum in the neighborhood of $10,000, about 10 times more money than I could get my hands on at the time.

— Mark Edwards

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

People weren't buying as many records. My record company did not want me. I went through three record companies, went on tour at the wrong time. It destroyed me.

— Adam Ant

The music rights at the time cost me $12,000 in 1964 money, which is about double now or whatever. But I cleared everything. I had a lawyer in New York. And it was cleared for use in a short subject, not a feature.

— Kenneth Anger

I didn't want to wait around for some business entity to come around and give me money and tell me what to do. We just started releasing records as best we could.

— Greg Ginn

The record company stay out of my way. Whenever the record is finished, they take it.

— Paul Simon

We were using the record as a tool to invest money into real estate all through the South, because we were living in an era where the South was changing.

— Solomon Burke

If I was going to sell out, I would do it for more than 10,000 records.

— Kurt Elling

If you are a musician who has released albums, it would perhaps be morbidly interesting to know how much you would be owed if everyone who now has your music had actually bought your record.

— Henry Rollins

✗Opposing Perspectives

Long made it possible for me to get on records, so what little money he did take from me, if any at all, he was entitled to it. He didn't take something from me.

— Brownie McGhee

Homesteading is gone.

— Jonathan Evison

So why sign your name in blood for more? It seemed like a sensible arrangement for me. I didn't sell large numbers of records and the record company paid advances they rarely recouped.

— David Knopfler