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The Music Industry Needs Your Help
#11
The music industry isn't dying...it is just having a shift in who is in control. It used to be a handful of labels. Now it is moving back more to the people. At some point in the not too distant future musicians will start to ditch labels alltogether and self produce, distribute, and promote via the web primarily. The same thing will happen with newspapers, radio, movies, video entertainment (can't really call it TV anymore). The models that are bringing the future closer are Amie St, Jamendo, Magnatune, CDBaby, etc. Heck, even eMusic is closer than iTunes, though Apple could change that in a moment's notice. Eventually musicians will earn what they deserve from their music. Not everyone will be fantastically popular, but that is no different than now. You'll probably see a shift in the labels from recording and selling into artist promotion and management. Copyright rules will need to change, but that is coming too.
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#12
Did you notice how the capitalized the "i" in iTunes when it was at the beginning of a sentence. I wonder if that was a human or digital copy editor making that "correction".
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#13
Joe, I said I DON'T disagree, which is basically a pretentious way of saying "I DO agree."

In other words, I think that Kid Rock song is cr@p too, but our opinion of its quality is irrelevant to the fact that it sells.

And remember, throughout the history of the music bidness, crap has ALWAYS sold well.
We tend to remember the good stuff from our youth, and forget the schlock, but the schlock was always there (and sometimes we elevate the schlock to "camp" status as it ages).
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#14
From the story,

Some artists see their albums as one piece of work, and don't want them dismantled. Their handlers believe they can make more by selling complete albums for $10 to $15 than by selling individual songs.

Of course they think they can make more. It's a business, all about maximizing profit. They want to get as much of my (or our) money as they can. I (or we) want to spend as little as possible. But since it's my money, guess who's going to win. Wink

Also, aside from classical music, I think there are very few albums which are a coherent piece of work. I'm far from having vast knowledge of the complete music catalog but off the top of my head, Chick Corea's The Mad Hatter is the only thing that comes to mind and that is jazz not pop.

Another aside... if the record companies can make more from CD sales than downloads (with no physical material), that really says something about how little it costs them to make a physical CD and how profit-packed those little discs are.
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#15
"Some artists see their albums as one piece of work, and don't want them dismantled."

Very few groups have ever produced concept albums that can actually stand as 'one piece of work.' The Who, Pink Floyd, Alan Parsons Project come to mind. Kid Rock does not.
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#16
Looks like you can't buy Jethro Tull's Thick as a Brick by the track on iTunes, Album only. So it does seem that iTunes can have titles that are only sold by the album.

Of course the tracks where a full side of an LP, and are over 20 minutes long.
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#17
The most disturbing part of the article is where it was claimed that Steve Jobs said the Eagles were his favorite band.
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#18
Most record labels see higher prices as critical to increasing revenue.

You know, it is hard to argue with that logic.
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#19
[quote Silencio]The most disturbing part of the article is where it was claimed that Steve Jobs said the Eagles were his favorite band.
If you don't like the Eagles, you can get your own damn cab!
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#20
[quote Seacrest]Joe, I said I DON'T disagree, which is basically a pretentious way of saying "I DO agree."

In other words, I think that Kid Rock song is cr@p too, but our opinion of its quality is irrelevant to the fact that it sells.

And remember, throughout the history of the music bidness, crap has ALWAYS sold well.
We tend to remember the good stuff from our youth, and forget the schlock, but the schlock was always there (and sometimes we elevate the schlock to "camp" status as it ages).
Jeez, I gotta get new glasses! Ya know, I can still play the sh*t out of my guitar, if somebody can just show me where the heck I put it. Wink

And you are very right, my friend (of course, just my opinion).
JoeM

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