It goes as such...
-if you're a real music fan and you're current state of living dictates you
can spend $100/week on music, I think regardless of Napster you'll still
spend that $100, but due to Napster (or other systems) you'll just have more
to listen to and be able to make better choices on where that $100 is being
dropped.
-my worry is long term as a generation of people comes up who never had the
"record shopping experience" that we would have all had. But I think by that
point I think most "illegal" download sites will have been forced back
underground and the majority of people will only know how to access paid
sites. I liken it to the porn industry. I remember in 1995 when I first got
a modem it seemed like the entire web was free porn. Try finding it now
without having to spend loads of time.
-and for the record, we never saw a slip in sales during the entire Napster
boom but that could have been attributed to many other factors outside of
Napster. It's entirely possible that we could have been selling more than we
did but can't really say, and since we saw a rise in sales I can't complain
about it.
Like I said, didn't have a problem with the theory, just with the players.
Jeff
on 2/14/01 6:22 AM, Hew Maxwell at hewtwit@hotmail.com wrote:
quoted 25 lines Just read Jeff from ninja-tune's mail. I assume there are quite a few people
> Just read Jeff from ninja-tune's mail. I assume there are quite a few people
> in here who own record labels/are trying to put out records. And I assume of
> those of us listening to 'idm' (argh, how I hate that term) most of us have
> access to napster. Probably significantly more so than most other genres. So
> I'd like to ask the record label owners this; what has happened to sales
> figures since napster came along? Has it affected them dramatically in any
> way? I for one use napster, but am probably buying the exact same amount of
> music as before, if not more. That goes for everyone I know as well. If
> anything it has made me more aware of the need to support the artists I
> think are great. I'm sure, as has been said so many times, it's going to
> fuck the majors, but will it really affect the 'underground?' I'm not
> saying it won't, but if it is going to - surely it would have started
> already?
>
> So record label owners - let us in on your sales figures.
>
> Hew
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