 yockTFTCPremium
join:2000-11-21
Miamisburg, OH
kudos:3 | The Recording Industry has a Problem There is an entire generation of young people who place no value on music.
I remember as a kid begging my parents for the latest cassette tapes from my favorite bands, and getting it for Christmas, my birthday, or perhaps some non-occasion. I am convinced that going without instilled in me a perceived value in that music, or anything else for that matter.
These days, kids don't have to go without. All they need to do is type the name of the latest song or artist into their file-sharing program and they download it faster than they can even listen to it. Instant gratification that required no discipline to obtain. Since there is no effort involved in obtaining music, there is no perceived value of that music, so from top to bottom the entire process is cheapened.
We can argue all day about file traders' justifications for doing what they do, but that really isn't the point. The underlying respect for the product and process just doesn't exist. In fact, I wager that it cannot co-exist with the trader mentality.
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 BF69Premium
join:2004-07-28
Camden, TN | Yep people think that 99¢ is so much for a song. Back when I was a wee lad in the late 70's you get a 45 single at Camelot Music in the mall for more than 99¢. And the only thing you could play it one was a record player. No porting it to your car or some personal device or anything like that. And if you took it to a friends house you treated it like gold because if it got scratched you had to buy a another one. |
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What is the real value of recorded music? Of a string of bits? Can a string of bits have a value? I would argue that only the original recording has an inherent value, and that value is the recording session and mixing, editing, etc that went into producing it.
If artists really want to make money they will stop making recordings and only do live performances. That in itself might add value to the recordings if they are rarer and not so ubiquitous. On the other hand, if artists are primarily interested in people hearing/seeing their art, then they should make digital reproductions available for free, from their own artist websites. That might encourage higher attendance to ..... live performances. And might reduce/eliminate some of the parasites who make their living off the work of Artists. |
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 kamm
join:2001-02-14
Brooklyn, NY | reply to BF69
said by BF69:Yep people think that 99¢ is so much for a song. Back when I was a wee lad in the late 70's you get a 45 single at Camelot Music in the mall for more than 99¢. And the only thing you could play it one was a record player. No porting it to your car or some personal device or anything like that. And if you took it to a friends house you treated it like gold because if it got scratched you had to buy a another one. People think $2 per song is so much for that song. Or $5 is so much...
This kind of idiocies remind me how music studio execs talk when they sit around poolside, looking at their Ferraris outside and can't grasp why they cannot force down $2-3 per song prices on our throat, why Apple won't raise the price in iTMS, why people flock to AllofMP3 by the millions.
Arrogant stupidity at its best, that is. |
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yockTFTCPremium
join:2000-11-21
Miamisburg, OH
kudos:3 | It's a basic axiom of economics that people will go cheaper when there is no disparity between the products being offered. That alone is why allofmp3.com is so popular.
But that isn't what this thread is about. I'm not talking about monetary value of a song so much as the non-tangible value of music itself. We yearn for things we can't have in this world, and that tends to create a real appreciation for those things, even a reverence if the desire is strong enough. How many of us would so respect the value of a Ferrari if it were available free on the internet?
No, the type of value I mean is the respect that comes along with the discipline required to attain it. We saved our allowance for weeks to buy the new Whitesnake record, and once we had it we respected it. No way in hell was our friend down the street getting his hands on it, and no way were we dubbing him a tape. He could save his allowance to get it for himself!
That doesn't exist anymore, simply because kids don't have to save up for it. It's an important lesson not only in music, but fiscal responsibility in general. Items we desire have monetary value in this country, and circumventing that system of supply and demand undermines a lot of that for which we stand.
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kamm
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Brooklyn, NY
1 edit | said by yock:It's a basic axiom of economics that people will go cheaper when there is no disparity between the products being offered. That alone is why allofmp3.com is so popular. Absolutely not true.
AoMP3 is so popular because it offers something customers want: DRM-infection-free, high-quality music including lossless FLAC in most cases.
But that isn't what this thread is about. I'm not talking about monetary value of a song so much as the non-tangible value of music itself. We yearn for things we can't have in this world, and that tends to create a real appreciation for those things, even a reverence if the desire is strong enough. How many of us would so respect the value of a Ferrari if it were available free on the internet?
Whereas it's true, it has nothing to do with music - Ferrari is a tangible product, a copy of MP3 is not.
No, the type of value I mean is the respect that comes along with the discipline required to attain it. We saved our allowance for weeks to buy the new Whitesnake record, and once we had it we respected it. No way in hell was our friend down the street getting his hands on it, and no way were we dubbing him a tape. He could save his allowance to get it for himself!
This is nothing but the early example of the much-hated arrogant, egoistic money-centered attitude that much of the US manifest in adult age.
Thanks God if it's about to be history.
That doesn't exist anymore, simply because kids don't have to save up for it. It's an important lesson not only in music, but fiscal responsibility in general. Items we desire have monetary value in this country, and circumventing that system of supply and demand undermines a lot of that for which we stand.
On the contrary it is GOOD that kids (and adults as well) aren't subject of a handful of heavy-handed studio dictators' taste, they don't have to follow official release waves and selections and especially EXCELLENT, WELCOMED that now WE HAVE THE CHOICE to select and buy what WE ADMIRE instead of paying lot of money when we were manipulated by the one-way distribution and marketing practices of the middlemen, the parasite studios.
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