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From:
Hew Maxwell
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Date:
Wed, 14 Feb 2001 11:22:12 -0000
Subject:
[idm] record sales and napster
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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 _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: idm-unsubscribe@hyperreal.org For additional commands, e-mail: idm-help@hyperreal.org