 kamm
join:2001-02-14
Brooklyn, NY
1 edit | reply to yock
Re: The Recording Industry has a Problem 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.
Praise the Lord those times are gone!  |
