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| Hear this, RIAA! |
by Kickstart |
2002-08-26 17:10:15 |
I download music and don't buy new CDs anymore. But my -used- CD buying has gone way up.
You wanna know why? Here are my reasons:
- The price of CDs: Your manufacturing and marketing costs don't come anywhere near to what you are selling your new CDs for. I'm old enough that I once bought vinyl...and often I'd buy 45's to get the single songs I wanted. I am happy to support the artists who create good music, but when I know that very little of the money I spend on a new CD goes to them, I feel like I am supporting a corporation that is ripping off people I like.
- The state of music today: Musical talent seems to go through cycles and we are at ebb tide. When you put out CDs that capture my interest enough, I will buy them. I am not a vapid pre-teen girl listening to Britney Spears, nor am I a big-pant wearing Eminem fan. I am not someone with volumes of nostalgia for the 50's, 60's, 70's, 80's or 90's. I want music that is new and good and makes me wanna listen. Also, if I'm expected to buy a CD filled with 15 songs (assuming I can actually get that many on a CD anymore), I want them all to be good. They don't all have to be unbelievably fantastic, but they have to be listenable. Too often I am seeing albums where one or two songs are quite good, two or three more are ok, and the rest should have been scraped off the performers shoes when walking into the studio.
- Quit restricting our freedoms to support your old business models: The technology is here, and there isn't a darn thing you can do about it. That sucks for you, since you'll have to spend some more time and money developing a new business model and I can appreciate that. However that is your responsibility and yours alone. It has taken you far too long to start making money off the new tech, just like it did when cassettes were introduced. Your executive staff must be aging because you are using the same arguments now that you did then. Once you got over this intellectual hurdle though, you sold millions upon millions of cassettes and smiled as your bank accounts grew. It's time to do the same with online music. You have people you can hire to think of ways to make this money, but I'll give you a freebie...charge per downloaded song in a proprietary format with a proprietary player. You won't be able to stop people from dumping this to MP3, but if you make that format damned good and your player damned good (keep the ads out of it if you want people to use it) you will do ok...eventually do better than you are doing right now.
There are of course more reasons I could dredge up, but really, if you handle these you're on the way to making a billion people like me turn into happy consumers.
Remember...the customer is always right...if you want them to buy your products. Thanks,
Greg |
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*applauds* (n/t) | by Nickface | 2002-08-26 17:35:42 |
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*thumbs up* | by cyb | 2002-08-26 18:23:12 |
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speachless? (n/t) | by cyb | 2002-08-26 19:56:06 |
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Totally off topic, but | by saxguy02 | 2002-08-26 18:25:34 |
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Yup, it is :) | by Kickstart | 2002-08-26 18:33:53 |
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