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# May 13, 2010
- URL: https://www.drewshannon.net/post-1137704233/
- Published: 2010-05-13T21:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-09-12T15:35:45.000Z
- Author: Drew Shannon
- Tags: #import-tumblr-2026-08-27, link

> Well, it’s all changed in the last couple of years. We’ve gone through a period where everyone downloaded everything for nothing and we’ve gone into a grey period it’s much easier to pay for things - assuming you’ve got any money.  
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> Are you quite relaxed about it?  
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> I am quite relaxed about it. But, you know, it is a massive change and it does alter the fact that people don’t make as much money out of records.  
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> But I have a take on that - people only made money out of records for a very, very small time. When The Rolling Stones started out, we didn’t make any money out of records because record companies wouldn’t pay you! They didn’t pay anyone!  
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> Then, there was a small period from 1970 to 1997, where people did get paid, and they got paid very handsomely and everyone made money. But now that period has gone.  
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> So if you look at the history of recorded music from 1900 to now, there was a 25 year period where artists did very well, but the rest of the time they didn’t.  
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> — [Mick Jagger](http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/8681410.stm?ref=drewshannon.net)