The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #138595   Message #3173473
Posted By: dick greenhaus
20-Jun-11 - 04:03 PM
Thread Name: Peter Kennedy's Folktrax recordings
Subject: RE: Peter Kennedy's Folktrax recordings
Folks here seem to have a vastly inflated vision of the amount of money that's involved with the sale of traditional folk music. Kennedy's collection is not widely available because there's virtually no market for it. People like CAMSCO are trying to keep it available simply because they think it should be available, NOT because there's any signiicant money to be made.And while it's nice to have free downloads, it takes money(taxes or grants) to set up and maintain these archives.