Future of music...

[Andrew Garibaldi]

Well said Keith!!!!!
The thing that worries me is that today's teenagers do not see  msuic as
anything that a disposable commodity - they don;t feel the need to "own" the
CD and that's where the problems start. If yuo have a generation who simply
want "music" as cheaply and as disposable a manner as possible, then wher
does that leave the music industry who rely on "hard" sales at a price.
But the industry is killing itself - take the new CD by Dido. If I want to
buy this from the record company it costs me as a dealer £9.15+VAT. Today I
can order that CD from Tesco online for £8.49 RETAIL!!! Faced with that, ven
the likes of HMV and Virgin are simply going to face huge loss of esarnings
and ultimately disappear.
So the companies are trying desperately to claw it back by suing people - a
sure sign of depseration of ever there was one. They are scared. But they
have no long-term policies when it comes to working  artists an groups - the
companies have to answer to shareholders and everything is designed to make
instant big annual profits - that is ALL that matters to them.
I've strayed from Keith's points but that's my (personal - not CDS) point of
view.
Andy G.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Henderson Keith" <keith.henderson at PSI.CH>
To: <BOC-L at LISTSERV.ISPNETINC.NET>
Sent: Thursday, September 11, 2003 4:24 PM
Subject: OFF: Future of music...


> Hello, Folks...
>
> I was just thinking about all the recent news about idiotic record
companies
> suing 12-year old kids and the like for downloading music.  And this talk
I
> now read about how CDs are already being 'replaced' by more immediate and
> fluid media, essentially a hard drive full of musical data that every kid
> will carry around with him.  And that seems to me like a revolution that,
> unlike vinyl-to-cassette-to-CD or whatever, will really change the nature
of
> how artists and listeners 'communicate' or