I was paid $150 (was supposed to be $200 but that's a long boring story I can't be bothered going into, let's just say I'm not surprised they folded) but you get it all for free.
There is a cute article in this same edition which asks, "MP3 - End Of The CD?". Apparently we're (the public) are buying a LOT less recordings than we were in the 60's. In the UK in the 60's you needed to sell a million copies of a single to get to Number 1. Now you can get into the top ten on less than 10,000 sales. The article also says that Janis Martin got to only 56 in the charts on 700,000 sales in 1956. Marilyn Manson was awarded a "Double Platinum" record for just 70,000 sales.
Kind of disturbing. They don't mention prices though. A single these days would cost you $9, $5 at the cheapest. Singles in those days were a lot cheaper (50 cents?). Although I'm unsure of the equivilant when inflation is taken into account. Would be nice to have this info.
I wonder how much money Janis made from those sales? And the article never actually gets around to saying if MP3 is the end of CD. Darn, I really wanted to know too.