Payment

I came across one of Robert Fripp's aphorisms today.

"When a record company makes a mistake, the artist pays for it.
When a manager makes a mistake, the artist pays for it.
When the artist makes a mistake, the artist pays for it."

I think he's forgetting that in the end, the audient, fan, punter, interested buyer of music, whatever you want to call him/her always "pays" for it as well. Perhaps to a different degree than the artist but payment nonetheless.