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Quo vadis?
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With music CD's going for R160 when there's normally only a few good songs on it, and even fewer that you like, I can't emagine why people don't want to buy them.
It's also probably the end of them adding one "unreleased" song to an album and trying to sell it again for another R160. Aswell as those pathetic "Best Of" albums, I mean come on.
It's also probably the end of them adding one "unreleased" song to an album and trying to sell it again for another R160. Aswell as those pathetic "Best Of" albums, I mean come on.
ITMS and Amazon are not available in SA which leaves us a few smaller-fewer title services and some ummm services in the .RU domain range 
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So 'casting doubts on the future' of media is BS. I would imagine that there would be a bigger market for store downloads of single tracks,
you go to a music store with a flashdrive or your mp3 player and download the songs you want onto it, with a per song pricing policy.
.So 'casting doubts on the future' of media is BS. I would imagine that there would be a bigger market for store downloads of single tracks,
you go to a music store with a flashdrive or your mp3 player and download the songs you want onto it, with a per song pricing policy.
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dummies
why do people still cling to the past instead of embrace the future. Sales here are dwindling because people are finding alternate ways to fill their Ipods. and I don't think Pick n play are on the list of ipod users, DMA and WMA will not save the industry. Can you imagine the headlines at the turn of the last centuary, "Sales of Horse drawn carts, horses and other livery dwindle as the Internal Combustion engine grows in popularity".
I have family in the music distribution industry, and these guys will loose their jobs unless they adapt, I hope they do soon.
Radiohead and now Trent Reznor along with Saul Williams (look for Niggy Tardust) are pioneers, they will kill-off the fat record labels, and probably still make more individual money from their efforts. People will learn to buy music out of choice, rather than what is forced on them via radio and shows like "idols".
viva the digital revolution!!!
why do people still cling to the past instead of embrace the future. Sales here are dwindling because people are finding alternate ways to fill their Ipods. and I don't think Pick n play are on the list of ipod users, DMA and WMA will not save the industry. Can you imagine the headlines at the turn of the last centuary, "Sales of Horse drawn carts, horses and other livery dwindle as the Internal Combustion engine grows in popularity".
I have family in the music distribution industry, and these guys will loose their jobs unless they adapt, I hope they do soon.
Radiohead and now Trent Reznor along with Saul Williams (look for Niggy Tardust) are pioneers, they will kill-off the fat record labels, and probably still make more individual money from their efforts. People will learn to buy music out of choice, rather than what is forced on them via radio and shows like "idols".
viva the digital revolution!!!
DragonLogos
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Also a lot of artists these days do not want to have anything to do with record labels, there is very little point going through endless hassles with so little return - In the good old days the Record labels had two big guns in the means of production suit - control of the medium, ie a record pressing plant - Home CD burners blew that one out the water
Then there was the recording studio, and PC based recording saw the end of that
The only thing they have left is their back catalogue (old recordings) and a network of distribution (the record shops)
Like our good friends Telkom they also took advantage of a monopoly situation - back in the 80s when there was the Energy crisis, the price of records went up and up... why, because they were made out of Vinyl which was a petroleum project - funny thing was, they never went down in price, heck even when CDs came along they put the price up even more... Why... ohhhh it was because they had to pay from the infrastructure - In fact it is a real hoot that a VHS tape of a movie is half the price of a DVD
"I weep for you," the Walrus said.
"I deeply sympathize."
With sobs and tears he sorted out
Those of the largest size.
Holding his pocket handkerchief
Before his streaming eyes.
"O Oysters," said the Carpenter.
"You`ve had a pleasant run!
Shall we be trotting home again?"
But answer came there none--
And that was scarcely odd, because
They`d eaten every one.`
The Walrus and the Carpenter - Lewis Carroll
Then there was the recording studio, and PC based recording saw the end of that
The only thing they have left is their back catalogue (old recordings) and a network of distribution (the record shops)
Like our good friends Telkom they also took advantage of a monopoly situation - back in the 80s when there was the Energy crisis, the price of records went up and up... why, because they were made out of Vinyl which was a petroleum project - funny thing was, they never went down in price, heck even when CDs came along they put the price up even more... Why... ohhhh it was because they had to pay from the infrastructure - In fact it is a real hoot that a VHS tape of a movie is half the price of a DVD
"I weep for you," the Walrus said.
"I deeply sympathize."
With sobs and tears he sorted out
Those of the largest size.
Holding his pocket handkerchief
Before his streaming eyes.
"O Oysters," said the Carpenter.
"You`ve had a pleasant run!
Shall we be trotting home again?"
But answer came there none--
And that was scarcely odd, because
They`d eaten every one.`
The Walrus and the Carpenter - Lewis Carroll
ipods a plague? you can't install vinyl players into your car, you can't run with vinyl, those long trans-atlantic flights would be a little more cramped if everyone took their vinyl collections to listen to! ipods are popular for good reasons, as are vinyl with audiophiles.
Radio in SA is a plague, playing the same 20 songs in a continuos loop for 20 days at a time, swapping the tracks out every now and then for more of the same insipid rubish. Radio is one ongoing commercial for the record labels to push their product.
Also how much money did the record labels make when suckers like me converted their collection from vinyl to CD??? Why did we have to pay full retail again for records we had already bought? Their fat days are over, and they are bitching about revenues being down, making online music sound like the cause. They have had long enough to embrace the technology, manage the damage, but instead they built "cactus" and other DRM tools. How much money did they waste their? Adapt or die has never rung more true in the music industry.
Radio in SA is a plague, playing the same 20 songs in a continuos loop for 20 days at a time, swapping the tracks out every now and then for more of the same insipid rubish. Radio is one ongoing commercial for the record labels to push their product.
Also how much money did the record labels make when suckers like me converted their collection from vinyl to CD??? Why did we have to pay full retail again for records we had already bought? Their fat days are over, and they are bitching about revenues being down, making online music sound like the cause. They have had long enough to embrace the technology, manage the damage, but instead they built "cactus" and other DRM tools. How much money did they waste their? Adapt or die has never rung more true in the music industry.