Compulsive record buying is a vice for those with disposable income and
most of the record fiends I know are looking for work and are having
trouble getting the non-disposable income, much less record $$$ (this is
in the US, where the economy is taking a serious dump for lack of a
better word.) If the IDM list were representative of the general record
buying public then the recording industry would probably be completely
huge but alas, no.
I've -heard- it's a bad time for record labels (and the recording
industry in general, intellectual property issues aside) but I don't
have any figures to back it up. Hardly anyone (especially in the indie
scene) is spending money to get special vinyl, etc etc. and buy
back-catalog stuff so there's one example.
Maybe it's because Tommy Mattolla (sp?) has a jillion dollar income and
all the indies have to spend big bucks just to get any exposure at all!!
Don't know, but I bet.
Actually, I'd bet you a buck but well, you know, the economy.
dave
Oneaphex@aol.com wrote:
quoted 19 lines In a message dated 7/30/2002 3:50:54 AM Central Daylight Time,>In a message dated 7/30/2002 3:50:54 AM Central Daylight Time,
>jpklein@telocity.com writes:
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>>>>as has recently been ascertained, the subscribers of this list are
>>>>collectively spending an astronomical sum of money buying new records
>>>>and cds each month. how is it possible that there's nothing to say
>>>>about them?
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>what i'd like to know is why the labels and artists don't seem to be making
>any money
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