At 10:02 PM 7/15/2002 -0400, you wrote:
quoted 10 lines I hear you on that issue. I think of course, to be successful>I hear you on that issue. I think of course, to be successful
>you'd have to make a good poduct, no doubt. As it is, releasing
>mp3s costs nothing, and so artists who may not be that great
>can do it as easily as artists that are good.
>
>But set that aide - if there were mp3s for sale of tunes
>that you would have bought on cd (or vinyl, or whatever format you buy)
>would you buy them? Or does it feel like you are paying for something
>with no substance? Or other issues. I can see many, but
>i'm trying to work out, the potential issues that come up
Well, what's the advantage to buying only mp3's, when you can purchase the
cd and make your own mp3's??
Sure, you get the mp3's instantaneously, but why not do a joint
service? mp3's AND the cd? Or, if you purchase the mp3's, you can buy the
cd at a drastically discounted rate.
Personally, it seems sort of stupid to buy/download mp3's only to then burn
them on to a CD either as a backup, mp3 copy, and especially ironic to then
burn an audio cd from them :) Especially if the mp3's cost the same as the
cd...
And what I find even more interesting is that most "idm" does its best when
its looked at from a "whole album" point of view. There really aren't any
hits in idm, at least not enough to warrant looking at artists on a song by
song basis. So you wouldn't even buy individual mp3's, but rather an
entire album, which gets us back to where we started :)
derek
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