| To a record company, a band is venture capital. You can't start the argument of how record companies and bands are treated on a contract until you take a look at all of the bands that they have sunk money into a costly album that didn't recoupe its profit.
So, you may be spending a lot on a certain band, but some of that is going towards the fact that there were 3 others that lost money.
Think of it like a badly managed game company *cough* with one very profitable product, and a few that are just money pits. It's a business, after all. | 