Comments on: When will the music industry do it right ?

By: Sam

Sam — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 12:27:56 +0000

I think the first thing they should do is get rid of the A&R\’s at the record companies no one needs them anymore they are over paid with almost no real music back grounds and then as one of you stated the government should step in and make them compete more like the tech companies do.

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prabhjot — Mon, 28 Aug 2006 11:01:17 +0000

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By: yoyo

yoyo — Mon, 28 Aug 2006 11:01:17 +0000

interesting post.
thank you.

By: wow powerleveling

wow powerleveling — Mon, 28 Aug 2006 11:01:17 +0000

The bands are out there, but the pinhead lawyers running the talent branches keeping using their narrow sighted formula (pretty face, nice body, can’t sing but that’s ok we’ll just have her lip synch, can’t write songs but that’s ok we’ll have our staff writer song machine come up with something) to try to stuff down the consumer’s throats.

By: runescape money

runescape money — Mon, 28 Aug 2006 11:01:17 +0000

Now that music is digital and the venues are there for comsumers to buy just the songs they want for a buck each vs. 15 bucks for the whole disc, the industry needs to realize that the consumer’s expectations have shifted and no amount of laws to limit how music is distributed can change those expectations back.

By: Mike Verinder

Mike Verinder — Mon, 28 Aug 2006 11:01:16 +0000

I agree with poster number 1.
I dont really buy CD’s anymore.. Prices are outrageous. Remember the days we would make Cassettes recorded from the Radio? I sure do.. I dont know how the “industry” claimed p2p hurt sales.. they are just stupid.. people have been recording music for along time now.. back in the cassette days even..
P2P made me increase my sales too.. b/c i got to hear artists i never would have heard otherwise.

In reguard to the downloads.. I DO NOT like the 99 cent download thing… its just too easy for me to add up in my head how much money im spending. I would like a “all you can download” format for X amount of dollars a month.. But again.. when and if someone does that.. They Better have a good library of songs.. not 1 top ten label. and the rest .. junk.

By: Earl

Earl — Mon, 28 Aug 2006 11:01:16 +0000

Mark,

I think you are right, and I would venture a guess that the music industry would agree with you to some degree as well. In their defense, and it’s hardly a rock solid defense, I don’t think they remotely recognized the impact the internet would have. If they did anticipate any of the effects of the interent, they surely didn’t anticipate them happening as quickly as they did.

I bounced you entry off some folks I know within the industry and they agreed with what you said, while reiterating they just weren’t remotely ready for the impact of the interent.

Always great to hear your view on things…Earl

By: Matt L

Matt L — Mon, 28 Aug 2006 11:01:16 +0000

The music industry should be grateful consumers were willing to put up with paying for an entire album just to get 2 or 3 songs for as long as we did. Now that music is digital and the venues are there for comsumers to buy just the songs they want for a buck each vs. 15 bucks for the whole disc, the industry needs to realize that the consumer’s expectations have shifted and no amount of laws to limit how music is distributed can change those expectations back.
The fact is that consumers know we need to buy our music to some extent still, but we also know that we should only have to pay for what we want to buy. Many artists (who only have 1 good song) and record execs may dislike that fact because less CD’s are going to sell in the long-run, but the quicker they embrace the market that is still there the better off they will be. Case in point; tell me that U2 is sufferring from embracing the 1 good song = $1.00 concept(‘Vertigo’ is Apple iTunes #1 downloaded song at the moment).

By the way, if you’re looking for Dallas Mavs prospects; we here in Chicago would gladly pitch in to enroll Sammy Sosa in some basketball camps this winter if it would mean you’d take him off our hands. It seemed to work well for all involved with the Manute Bol/ hockey initiative.

By: David Irwin

David Irwin — Mon, 28 Aug 2006 11:01:16 +0000

The CD is dead. Dying like a large oak tree with its roots cut. It may take a while to fall over, but it’s dead.

It’s just that the RIAA and the companies in it don’t want to admit it. It’s frustrating that they won’t just make the change that they will have to eventually anyway.

Meanwhile, many people like myself aren’t buying CDs. It’s not because of P2P, it’s because of the RIAA.

By: Haig S.

Haig S. — Mon, 28 Aug 2006 11:01:16 +0000

Good stuff Mark. One line to describe the music conglomerates fate: “The tighter you grasp, the faster it runs through your fingers”.

They are trying to offer some of the services you describe through Rhapsody and others, but also trying to keep a draconian-like control over everything. One of the HUGE money-making potentials they’re missing out on is releasing back-catalog content. A lot of people using P2P networks go on not because its free, but because they can’t find the songs for sale anymore. Great article in Wired describing this and more: http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/12.10/tail.html?pg=4

It’s a dillema because we can’t, and I am opposed to, having government mandate the music companies rights. They own that property and no one should tell them what to do with it. Instead, let the market decide, and when they alienate all their customers let them go down with their ship, holding on to their property rights for what good it’ll do them.