The Music Industry Needs Your Help

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Buy your music from Amazon--if the strategy works, the industry will reward you later in its own special way:

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB12198744...arketplace

[MacArtist]

Maybe people would buy more albums if there was more than one good song on it.

So basically the record companies haven't learned a thing. They still want us to spend at least $10 for one good song.

Not a chance.

Apple's bad because they are in a position to tell the RIAA what to do?

The RIAA has a very short memory. Music sales were tanking an illegal downloads were skyrocketing. And what Apple has accomplished is a bad thing?

I will dance a jig when they throw the last shovel of dirt on the RIAA's grave.

[Stavs]

Waa...waa.waa. I've seen so many versions of this story.Perhaps if Kid Rock had a full album that was worth buying, it would sell. That single (which I cant stand) is probably the only good song on the record. That guys a joke.

That article is so anti-consumer its awful. iTunes gives people what they want, not what the industry wants us to have. They need to adjust their thinking or they will remain in the crapper.

[Jack D.]

"In so many ways it's turned our business back into a singles business," says Ken Levitan, Kid Rock's manager. Mr. Levitan says the rise of iTunes is far from being a boon to the industry; instead, he calls it "part of the death knell of the music business."

See, Apples killing the music business but Microsoft and WalMart wear the white hats. What a steaming load... Death to Big Music Biz!

[graylocks]

[quote Stavs]Waa...waa.waa. I've seen so many versions of this story.Perhaps if Kid Rock had a full album that was worth buying, it would sell. That single (which I cant stand) is probably the only good song on the record. That guys a joke.

That article is so anti-consumer its awful. iTunes gives people what they want, not what the industry wants us to have. They need to adjust their thinking or they will remain in the crapper.
also, the article's headline would have you believe the artists are making this decision. VERY few artists have that much control over the matter. it's a record company decision that the companies would love for the consumers to think comes from the artists.

[JoeM]

...This year, Kid Rock, whose real name is Bob Ritchie, has had a massive radio hit with "All Summer Long" -- a nostalgia-soaked rocker built on riffs sampled from two of the most iconic songs in classic rock: Lynyrd Skynyrd's "Sweet Home Alabama" and Warren Zevon's "Werewolves of London."...

Wow, how original. And they wonder why this cr@p doesn't sell more? Yeah, it's Apples fault...

[Seacrest]

[quote JoeM]
Wow, how original. And they wonder why this cr@p doesn't sell more? Yeah, it's Apples fault...
Ironically, that "cr@p," as you call it, is one of the few tracks that's selling well.
(I don't disagree with your assessment.)

[JoeM]

[quote Seacrest][quote JoeM]
Wow, how original. And they wonder why this cr@p doesn't sell more? Yeah, it's Apples fault...
Ironically, that "cr@p," as you call it, is one of the few tracks that's selling well.
(I don't disagree with your assessment.)
You don't have to. That's one of the nice things about having your own opinion and your own $ to buy what you like. To me it's cr@p. Why? Because this guy has to sample 20+ yr old riffs to come up with something good enough to sell some copies. Let him (or somebody else) write something ... new and just as good as those songs and it will really sell. Plain and simple.

When these non-talented music biz morons stop pushing mediocre "talent" and tunes down the consumers throats and start developing more good writers and performers again, they'll sell real quantities.

Blaming Apple is BS. The music they produce mostly sux. That's why people don't buy it. I still buy a lot of music but I don't buy this karoke poser pop stuff.

[deckeda]

As a kid I bought a lot of albums because of one or two songs. This is what's called "payback."

[JoeM]

[quote deckeda]As a kid I bought a lot of albums because of one or two songs. This is what's called "payback."
LOL