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| reply to Deathsadvoca
Re: NO SHIT!
Uh, I'm hoping that's sarcasm, but just in case you're really wondering...
Of course they know their music is shit, but there are certain benefits to chalking declining sales up to piracy, namely that it's politically easier to get more and more restrictive laws passed. The current music business is based on the model of selling CDs, which involves infrastructure that record companies are set up to provide. But wouldn't they embrace music download services like iTunes? You'd think so, since they can then cut out the cost of physical CD production, but then why are they trying to sabotage them by attempting to jack up prices to levels that would approach that of a physical CD? Well, would you pay $10 for an album off iTunes as opposed to $15 for a CD? Maybe, even though the downloaded files aren't CD quality. Now, would you pay $14 for that download? Maybe not, since for just a bit more, you can get the CD, with better sound, plus a physical product. Suddenly, iTunes's business model collapses before it can really take off. But it's already taken off, hasn't it? Not quite. You'll know when it takes off when a popular musician shit-cans their record company and starts selling directly via iTunes or a service like it. That's what the record companies don't want to start happening.
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Grimm
You Never Hear The One That Kills You
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join:2000-11-02
Largo, FL
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| reply to Deathsadvoca
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It took them this long to figure that out? whos running the RIAA a bunch of 4 year olds?
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lyls
@tele.dk
| reply to Slidetbone
making music on a computer takes skill too...... sure you cant really do liveact but you CAN try to add some real instruments playing your own shit and do some live "mixing" and add various things to as well.... that takes alot of skill imo to do that..... and yes a nice bass IS music.... however the usual commercial crap we're seeing such as the commercial rap, pop etc truly sucks =( |
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ughdamuzik
@optonline.net
| reply to trparky
Ugh, 99C for a britney spears tune.. Nope sorry, don't think so. I only buy music of artists I support.. someetimes is the physical packaging/coverart that is the novelty because anyone can download the music now... Some value-added features must be "phyical property, not zeros and ones"
The only way people buy is on the merits of the product......... which has gone into the gutter lately, with few exceptions |
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sdghty
@optonline.net
| reply to SandShark
Exactly, I replaced all but about 50 of my vinyl records before it got to the point where it was no longer worth bothering to look for the rest. And that was years ago, by which time I was already tired of 20 new albums to maybe find one that worth it. Of course when the one radio station left that wasn't a slave to the playlists died, that killed radio for me along with buying new CD's.
And no, I never downloaded any "music". I believe the industry killed itself many years ago and suspect many people were just trying to get the music at it's true value.
If they'd gotten smart and offered downloads for a few cents each, they might have turned things around. But now the've generated too much bad publicity by making themselves look blinded by greed. |
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bit_junkie
join:2004-05-04
Maricopa, AZ
| reply to redxii
said by redxii  :Beatles aren't noise. Download songs from Killswitch Engage and you will know what repetitive "noise" is. Rap is repetitive, they all sound the same, and have a curse word every 2-3 words. All the songs I have are because of no particular artist, because they sound quite pleasant to my ear and aren't just random guitar string banging with the amp all the way up times a million. i actually like killswitch:) (although could just be because of the metal kick im on lately,who knows  )
i've known for along time p2p hasnt been the decline of record sales, i personally own 350 cd's not including my 3 box sets, plus i have around 50 albums on vinyl that i cant find on cd, and i still download music.
i dont listen to the radio,i gave up on that years ago(although i do listen to talk radio,but thats another topic).i mostly find new music thru friends or just searching the web.
my car stereo is a sony mp3 deck, so i just burn what i want to hear that day or week or whatever, when im driving.
the music industry needs to wake up,its not that we dont like buying cd's, we just dont like most of that crap your recording onto them. |
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SandShark
So it goes
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join:2000-05-23
Santa Fe, TX
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| reply to Tikker_LoS
said by Tikker_LoS : quote:
I totally agree with the music simily isn't very good part. Most of the CD's I buy are ones that have been out for years and I've slowly been buying them to replace my vinyl and 8-tracks.
This is the one instance (i think) where since you've already paid for the rights to the music once, you can now download the mp3's legally, no? I'm not sure. I do have a lot of vinyl records, but all my 8-tracks got eaten by the 8-track POS player years ago. My post was more of joke than anything, especially the 8-track part.  |
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lupinia
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join:2004-08-24
Harrisonburg, VA
| reply to crazediamond
Well, like the other guy said, rock and roll, while not fitting the "popular" classification of that era, still classified as music at basic levels. It had melody, harmony, and rhythm, all played with instruments that require more than a pulse to play. Now, with rap, it does not qualify as music by ANY musician's definition. It has only rhythm (barely) and poetry. It could be classified as art (though I would debate even that), but certainly not music. Even today's "rock" from bands like Nickleback has about as much creativity as a room full of accountants. It's always the exact same thing over and over again. Oh, and most of what's out there today is remade from older songs. My sister is always shocked when I point out the recognizable melody from an eighties song embedded in something she just heard on the Top 20 station. |
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lupinia
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join:2004-08-24
Harrisonburg, VA | reply to lyls
Yes, computerized music takes skill. So does typing a form letter or posting a DSLR reply, doesn't make it art or music necessarily. |
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cork1958
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join:2000-02-26
Fruitport, MI
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| reply to MacThrasher
Try working on getting better talent and some more diverse music that people may actually get interested in instead of some packaged marketed steamy sack of crap that you call music!
Yeah, sex doesn't sell everything forever. People at the RIAA are complete morons. Plain and simple. How come it seems like the bigger the company, the dumber it is run? To many college educated, book smart, idiots that know nothing about the real world. |
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