Posted on 05/28/2007 5:23:23 AM PDT by WL-law
No.
The successful bands make their money in live performances.
Getting their recordings out so people know about them and want to come to their performances is a fundemental requirement to make real money.
In today’s world they’d be better off distributing their recordings for free to get wide exposure. If people like it the money will follow.
Perhaps if the song had been as appealing as 'I Heard It Through the Grapevine' and not more like today's junk she would. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to know what you consider tasteful. An award winning artist should have the ultimate final say-so on his/her material.
When I started buying ‘em in the 80s, they were around 6 bucks apiece.
I gravitated to Ogg Vorbis because of the bizarre name. That, and the fact that it’s fee and an open-source project, and sounds good. For archiving my discs, however, I use flac. Lossless. Approx 50% compression. And disc-space is so cheap.
Oh... Never mind.
“I don’t get it...doesn’t everybody want to buy CD’s of the latest Rap and Hip-Hop artists?”
This is an article about music.
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If you were talking about Tower Records in Burlington, they just closed down.
I agree, in fact most of my favorite album cuts were never released as singles at all. I happened to discover them on AOR (album oriented radio). I think I would buy a lot more online music if iTunes allowed me to stream the album in its entirety so that I could more easily cherry pick the good ones.
You forgot Grunge. VERY Huge in the early 90’s, and ‘Post-Grunge’ after that. ‘Alternative’ was another very popular genre.
No. I was talking abut Newbury Comics in Framingham. They said since Tower shut down, there is nowhere else really to byuy classical CDs.
FLAC is good for archiving and you can play the files on a computer with WinAmp and I think some other programs, but are there any portable players that handle FLAC?
No portables that I know handle flac. So I convert as I copy the files to the portable player.
Even worse is charging $30 for the white album when it was recorded in 1968 and mastered for CD as a 16-bit master in 1987.
What we need is to go back to the Land of 1000 Dances! But wait, the 1000 Dances were all promoted by little labels that the Big Labels killed and swallowed. Sorry, but accountants can’t dance, and even if they can, they can’t imagine themselves inventing new dances. Adam Smith tried to warn us.
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