labels dont like $1.00/song

[WMD]

quote:Originally posted by Refalm:
He voted for the PATRIOT act when he was a senator, and I haven't heard anything about Kerry being anti-PATRIOT act.

Bush says Kerry will take it out.  Hmmm...

[flap]

quote:That's not capitalism. Capitalism is where they charge $2.99, you don't like it, so you buy from SOMEBODY ELSE at a LOWER PRICE. That process continues until it's impossible to produce the song any cheaper.

Well that all sounds very nice, but he's making it up. If that's what he thinks capitalism is then capitalism isn't working anywhere, nevermind the record industry. Where is anything being sold "as cheaply as it can be produced"?

[ May 04, 2004: Message edited by: flap ]

[Calum]

quote:Originally posted by xeen:
$2.99 per song???? Thats more per song than if you bought the entire CD...which eliminates the fucking purpose!

BINGO! have a cigar!

of course this is intended to kill the concept of downloadable music, because the existing music corporations cannot see any way other than physical media with finite musical capacity to make money from.

This half assed effort will not succeed i predict in getting people to forget downloadable music ever existed. Apart from anything else many artistes willingly allow their stuff to be downloaded. have a look on my site for an example, (link in sig) i think you can get something like 4 or 5 CDs full of stuff by maybe a dozen artistes, if you also root around in the forums for urls.

also just look at the huge amount of billy corgan, smashing pumpkins and zwan mp3s you can now download courtesy of mr corgan himself. A lot of bands (green day, radiohead etc) have said they don't mind this sort of distribution of music and in a way the executives and agents are going to end up stuck in the middle between the fans and the bands, who are of like mind.

[flap]

quote:Originally posted by Calum is NOT a moderator:
A lot of bands (green day, radiohead etc) have said they don't mind this sort of distribution of music and in a way the executives and agents are going to end up stuck in the middle between the fans and the bands, who are of like mind.

I find the hypocrisy of bands like Radiohead frustrating. They complain at not owning the copyright on their own music, and not being allowed to permit their fans to freely distribute it. Yet they don't seem to realise that it's their own fault for signing to record labels in the first place, and that they're only helping to perpetuate the current system by collaborating with it.

[ May 07, 2004: Message edited by: flap ]

[Annorax]

quote:Originally posted by flap:


Well that all sounds very nice, but he's making it up. If that's what he thinks capitalism is then capitalism isn't working anywhere, nevermind the record industry. Where is anything being sold "as cheaply as it can be produced"?

[ May 04, 2004: Message edited by: flap ]

As long as it isn't musical or electronic... Wal-Mart is a good example of that. They sell so much crap that they can cut prices lower than smaller stores can. Customers buy from Wallyworld, or in that guy's terms, SOMEBODY ELSE.