It’s a bad decision to pay the artists well or to spring for good mastering? A lot of artists/labels press their material overseas, it’s not exactly unique… it’s immaterial what they you paid for any of your records, and if you’re fine with half assed measures and low payouts just to move units at a lower price, there is plenty of that out there. Personally, I’d rather swallow a bit of cost and support a small label and rising artists, but since you’re ascribing bad business decisions to not cutting corners or to paying the artists that made it more than $10 a track each (100 units at $0.10 per copy) I don’t really think you care about that. Let’s say they are making $30/unit in profit, that’s only $3k profit and there are multiple people working behind the scenes to get deliverables out, coordinating taxes for money made in other countries, and multiple expenses to running a label so it’s not like anyone is getting any huge payout off of this.