Friday, April 14, 2006
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I just had an idea and I wanted to know how you all felt about it. Since there's been all this commotion in the blogging world the past few weeks with Child Star and the recently deceased The Indie Connection, I was wondering if instead of posting the whole album, we should just post about half of the album. This kind of satisifies both arguments, because honestly cd's cost too much nowadays and I often have made an ill-advised decision in purchasing due to listening to one song I liked by a band, yet it's still going to get the downloader to go out and purchase the cd since they'll want to listen to the other half. Let me know what you all think about it in the comments or e-mail me at kokakola613@yahoo.com
Be back later, I'm watching a movie.
-Sean
I just had an idea and I wanted to know how you all felt about it. Since there's been all this commotion in the blogging world the past few weeks with Child Star and the recently deceased The Indie Connection, I was wondering if instead of posting the whole album, we should just post about half of the album. This kind of satisifies both arguments, because honestly cd's cost too much nowadays and I often have made an ill-advised decision in purchasing due to listening to one song I liked by a band, yet it's still going to get the downloader to go out and purchase the cd since they'll want to listen to the other half. Let me know what you all think about it in the comments or e-mail me at kokakola613@yahoo.com
Be back later, I'm watching a movie.
-Sean
# posted by Anonymous @ 10:57 AM 
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Half? What, the good half? If you post half then you might as well post two or three tracks.
Do we view half a painting before deciding if we want to buy it?
The music INDUSTRY makes us feel guilty about not making their offices twice as big. They can fuck themselves. Gimme FREEdom. Let me decide if a band deserves my money. I have a band and if I had an album you could have it for free. If you like then pick it up, support what I do and lookit the cool artwork I picked out for you. If you don't then who cares?
Thank you for caring about music... :)
Do we view half a painting before deciding if we want to buy it?
The music INDUSTRY makes us feel guilty about not making their offices twice as big. They can fuck themselves. Gimme FREEdom. Let me decide if a band deserves my money. I have a band and if I had an album you could have it for free. If you like then pick it up, support what I do and lookit the cool artwork I picked out for you. If you don't then who cares?
Thank you for caring about music... :)
# posted by 
: 2:42 PM
: 2:42 PM
although posting half is a good idea, it probably will just satisfy the people who don't support file-sharing. honestly, i'd like to listen to the whole album, especially if it's something that's ONLY circulating on the internet.
# posted by : 6:40 PM
: 6:40 PM
album reviews are absolutely misleading. we need to hear fully to make a smart decision when we buy music.
# posted by : 8:41 PM
: 8:41 PM
enough said, i agree with jon'n point of view. yea, we feel sorry about music industry, but, hey, what the heck, they should be more creative rather than suing blog site like this. to be honest, they must have come with greater idea than that, umm, like, cut cd's price down to 50%? stop being capitalist and start being socialist?
if you like their music and want their album as collectibles (they might be pricey in near future), buy it. after all, you'll get cover arts as bonus :)
if you like their music and want their album as collectibles (they might be pricey in near future), buy it. after all, you'll get cover arts as bonus :)
# posted by : 2:28 AM
: 2:28 AM
Putting up even half an album is still gonna get you into trouble though, isn't it?
# posted by : 7:12 AM
: 7:12 AM
fvcking hmv.
sigur ros - () is sold at $24.99 canadian in a local hmv.
downtown toronto record store, rotate this sells it for $12.99.
hmv has insane markups! boycott hmv
sigur ros - () is sold at $24.99 canadian in a local hmv.
downtown toronto record store, rotate this sells it for $12.99.
hmv has insane markups! boycott hmv
# posted by : 9:54 AM
: 9:54 AM
It's not just HMV.
I used to be the assistant manager at another CD store (a canadian company) and 12.99 sounds like what the stores cost would've been. I don't know how anyone could sell it at that price. We also sold the CD for 24 or 25 dollars. That is high markup. But you have to realize also, most of the markup is done before it ever makes it to the shelves. CDs cost far less to produce than cassettes. Record companies make me fucking sick. Thank god for indie. And while CDs on indie labels sometimes cost you even more than say the latest on a major, you have to know that indie costs are higher (smaller print run, so on) and these are usually companies that only survive on your dollar... not thrive.
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I used to be the assistant manager at another CD store (a canadian company) and 12.99 sounds like what the stores cost would've been. I don't know how anyone could sell it at that price. We also sold the CD for 24 or 25 dollars. That is high markup. But you have to realize also, most of the markup is done before it ever makes it to the shelves. CDs cost far less to produce than cassettes. Record companies make me fucking sick. Thank god for indie. And while CDs on indie labels sometimes cost you even more than say the latest on a major, you have to know that indie costs are higher (smaller print run, so on) and these are usually companies that only survive on your dollar... not thrive.
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