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One Buck Forty or Die
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| 27 sep 02
| John C. Dvorak
Posted on 09/27/2002 4:35:31 PM PDT by white trash redneck
Edited on 04/13/2004 3:02:05 AM PDT by Jim Robinson.
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To: rdb3
Damn skippy!
God Bless Capitalism!
To: SamAdams76
LimeWire for me, a GNUtella client gets you anything you want from peer clients ... lots of music you cant find elsewhere easily ... and good stuff: Benny Goodman, Chieftains, playing right now while I FR surf.
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posted on
09/27/2002 7:41:43 PM PDT
by
WOSG
To: white trash redneck
If albums were great, I would be actually willing to pay $25 for them. But these days, there are often 2 good songs, and 8 filler ones that are dreadful. So, basically, you are paying $8 a song.
When I was a kid, I would listen to my parents old Beatles records, Led Zepplin, etc... and the albums were solid throughout. They were also cheaper. So now we pay more, for less. The music industry is to blame for this one. They are eliminating the single. They were selling tape and cd singles, but are ending the practice. So, your choice is buy the whole package, or nothing. Any non monopolistic business and they go down fast.
If we had to buy a car with jiggly dice, plush countertops, detailed paint, the stereo of their choice, etc... etc... we would be angry campers. RIAA is turning music into this.
Before, some of the revenue from singles would actually go to the artist. Now, with no single, people who just want the song and not the album are going the mp3 route. RIAA sucks.
To: jodorowsky
Thanks for the giganews tip!
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posted on
09/27/2002 8:01:23 PM PDT
by
dennisw
To: white trash redneck
Atlas Shrugged. Only this time it's the consumer and, increasingly, the artists, who are doing the shrugging.
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posted on
09/27/2002 9:56:04 PM PDT
by
kms61
To: white trash redneck
Of course now days it only takes ONE hit to be a superstar and completely set for the rest of your life.
Something like this is not fair and leaves me with absolutely no pity for the record companies and artists.
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posted on
09/27/2002 10:14:24 PM PDT
by
expatguy
To: StolarStorm
I think that these artists should stop complaining. God forbid they lose a little money and they don't get to get there heated floors or that 8th TV in the car, with playstation 2 and X Box and Gamcube on it. I mean come on. The money they get should go to teachers, because if it wasn't for teachers, they wouldn't be able to spell or write, or even count money. They need to do more concert's and other things to make money. Believe me from what I see, they ain't losing to much. I watch Cribs. So I don't feel a damn thing for them. If it's that bad maybe they should get a second job. Maybe being waiters or factory workers. Until then they need to stop crying.
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posted on
03/03/2004 11:11:06 AM PST
by
madas_hell_04
(I'm so tried. File share on!!!!!)
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