Future of music...

[Richard Lockwood]

And well said Andy.

However, I don't give two hoots whether the likes of Virgin and HMV go
under, as they've been making *massive* profits out of the likes of me and
you for years.  I *do* care about the independent record shops, who work on
very small margins and start up due to a love of music - let's face it, when
did anyone accuse Branson of being a music fan?

The guys who are guilty of creating this scenario are the major record
labels, who have been raking in the vast majority of the cash from physical
recordings since the invention of the wax cylinder - simply because no-one
else had the technology to do it.  Now people have, they're bleating like
frightened sheep.  Unfortunately, they've created a song / single culture
(top 40 etc), where the (shall we say) less discerning music listener
doesn't see an "album" as a collection of well crafted song which are
designed to fit together, but see it as simply ten or twelve songs.  So
listeners grow up thinking the three (or four) minute song is the
indivisible unit of misic.  Whereas I'd say "No!  The album is the
indivisible unit!" as Keith says.

If EMI etc hadn't brought out all those "The Best Rock Album In The World
Since The Last One!" and "Now That's What I Call Popular Vol 76"
collections, maybe we wouldn't be in this situation.

Just a "I've just woken up and I'm late for work" thought.

:-)

Cheers,

Rich.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Andrew Garibaldi" <Deadearnest at BTOPENWORLD.COM>
To: <BOC-L at LISTSERV.ISPNETINC.NET>
Sent: Thursday, September 11, 2003 11:26 PM
Subject: Re: Future of music...


> 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
>
>