SandShark
So it goes
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Santa Fe, TX
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Re: NO SHIT!
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.  |
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Tikker_LoS
join:2004-04-29
Regina, SK
·SaskTel Saskatchewan
| 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? |
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sivran
Long Live The Suite
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join:2003-09-15
Arlington, TX
clubs: | Bingo.
It's just that the guy uploading them has no right to do so. |
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Deathsadvoca
join:2003-08-20
South Lyon, MI
clubs: | It took them this long to figure that out? whos running the RIAA a bunch of 4 year olds? |
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Pirate515
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join:2001-01-22
Brooklyn, NY
|  said by Deathsadvoca  :Who is running the RIAA? A bunch of 4 year olds? Multiply that by a few billion and you'll get the age right.
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| reply to Deathsadvoca
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
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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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4 Year olds don't wear diapers and eat strained foods.
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sdghty
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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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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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