Here here! I would have never even gotten into electronica AT ALL if it
werent for MP3. The first MP3 I downloaded was and Aphex Twin track, and
after that I went and bought every release available. I do download tracks
that are out of print, which I think is just as fair as some asshole at a
record label saying, "Hey, wouldn't it be funny if we only made 500 copies
of this album? That way no one will be able to listen to it!". To that I
say, more power to you. Ya could have made more money if you'd made 50,000
instead of 500. Instead, they give me no choice but to get it for free,
when I probably would have been happy to purchase it.
To bring up a recent topic, we were talking about how lots of people here
only like one or 2 aphex twin songs. If this is the case, who would be dumb
enough to spend $13-20 on a CD when it only has 6 tracks to begin with, and
only one or two MIGHT be good? No wonder people use napster, they just want
the good song, not the other crappy 5. In all realism, it is up to the
label, RIAA, artist, etc to make the first gesture of peace. Maybe at first
you will lose some money if you sell music at a reasonable price, because
people will still be getting MP3's instead of buying, but soon that trend
will die, and people will buy the real copy again. It's also up to the
artist to make the CD WORTH it. Put 10-15 tracks on, make them all worth
listening to, and quit thinking your time is sooooo valuable that you have
to make millions instead of hundreds of thousands. Any person who has a
head on their shoulders should be able to live just as well with half a
million dollars a year as they could with 10 mil a year. How greedy do you
have to be? What happened to making music for the sake of making music?
It's all about the $$ now. Did Mozart charge $40 for people to hear his
music? I think not. I believe that an artist should be fairly compensated
for his work, but not overcompensated to the point that one minute he's
living in a 400 sq. ft. apartment and the next he's giving spare change to
Bill Gates.
MP3 can help the industry if the industry would allow it to.
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> From: TekDz9ER@aol.com
> Sent: Monday, February 12, 2001 7:10 PM
> To: idm@hyperreal.org
> Subject: [idm] re: napster
>
> Them sounds like fightin' words ta me. But I won't start a fight. I just
>
> want to say that without Napster, I would never have been able to
> experience
> some of the great music in our scene. There are so many artists nowadays,
>
> some good some bad, lots of conflicting opinions on this list. I'm
> grateful
> that I've been able to find out for myself without having shelled out
> hundreds of dollars on crap. Although I sympathize with artists and
> labels
> who truly believe that they've lost substantial amounts of profit due to
> Napster, my truth is that if I discover something that I believe to be a
> winner, I'll go out and buy the real thing. So no money lost there. And
> it's a great way to stock up on classic and deleted records that one would
>
> never be able to purchase at any retail music store again. Life sucks
> now.
> And to all up and coming idm/electronic artists: I'm awfully sorry, but I
>
> just can't afford to buy all of your music.
>
> TekDz9er
>
> <Thank God Napster took another kicking...fuck off and die you
> thieves...if
>
> tossers like napster wasn't bootlegging artists work, maybe more people
>
> could concentrate on content rather than spending most of their time doing
>
> crap work to pay the rent, while the corporates just get richer from their
>
> sweat.
>
>
> Apollon>
>
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