Puts everything into perspective, doesn't it ?
Always about..."the Money"....
Too bad, really, as I am much more interested in Richard and Karen's
creative and artistic oeuvre.
Gee, how much money needs to be made off of an album?
After all, even Offering got a re-issue and even an update (the UK 1978/9 Vinyl),
thus, it certainly (eventually) "made money".
Coleman says: Made In America was "very profitable". (page 289).
Thus, I ask at what point is the monetary line drawn--if that be the primary focus ?
For Richard, may I say respectfully that it has always been about the money. Remember, the Carpenters were more than just a brother-sister duo that made music, they were a business - PERIOD.