"Top Three" Ways The Recording Industry is Killing Itself in Technology Law & Politics http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r18818622 en Wed, 10 Feb 2010 08:50:32 EDT Wed, 10 Feb 2010 08:50:32 EDT Re: "Top Three" Ways The Recording Industry is Killing Itself http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,18893738 jwersan : You left out one, over priced product...

On most "New release" CDs you have TOPS three songs worth listening to. This amounts to maybe six to nine minutes of entertainment for a product that usually exceeds $16.

Compare that to a DVD which will give you on average two hours of entertainment and it is usually only a small amount more to purchase...
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RIAA/MPAA... Bite me!!!!
Death Penalty for parking violations!
Don't hit the kids!! No seriously, they have guns now!]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,18893738 Fri, 17 Aug 2007 11:22:40 EDT "Top Three" Ways The Recording Industry is Killing Itself http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,18818622 DOStradamus : "Prozac":
The current (new release) product that the Recording Industry is producing, it aimed at the new, bland formats, that current trends in radio station ownership is causing. It’s pure crap. No wonder they can’t sell it!
More and more of the (broadcast) radio stations in any given market tend to be owned by fewer and fewer licensees. As it is bad “business sense” to own two businesses that compete with each other, no savvy broadcaster, in most cases, would want multiple stations that play the same genre of music. This tends to leave most markets with only *one* station for any given format. In this situation, it’s not really “station vs. station” competition, but “genre vs. genre”.

As a result of that, today's radio formats are "bland" decendents of those a decade ago; the FM dial is diverselyand perversely populated with “Smooth Jazz”. “Today’s Country”. “Classic(ly BAD) Rock”, and “Alternative Music” that makes one yearn for something else(!).

Seeing the FM dial as their primary marketing tool, they, in turn, provide "logs for the bowl".

"Self-abuse":
They could sell LOTS of GOOD music in all kinds of flavors, but they are trying to kill off the marketing vehicle that could be their savior: Internet Radio
"Pedal marksmanship" (Shooting one's own foot):
They own lots of existing product, for which there is ample demand, but refuse to print and sell it!
I had my 600+ CD collection stolen two years ago. I used to continually add to it, as I discovered new (to me) artists, over numerous genres spanning the 60’s to the ‘90s. I had noticed more and more of what I was searching for was “out of print”, an eventuality when filling out a collection.

When I went to replace my collection, I was regularly frustrated at not bring able to purchase CD I had purchased only a year before. An example: I bought John Hartford’s “Morning Bugle” as new for 15 dollars, 18 months ago. It’s OOP now, and used copies go for $100.00 on Ebay and GEMM, when you can find them.

Plus:
IMHO, they are a major contributor to the rise in popularity of P2P...
(rhetorically) "Where does one go to get an album, when there are no (legal) copies for sale...anywhere?"

I can name a dozen now :)]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,18818622 Mon, 06 Aug 2007 09:23:20 EDT