Too true. I rarely listen to the radio or watch MTV and if I couldn't download songs then I wouldn't know what I liked because when I do hear something I like, I go out and buy the CD.
Americans are conditioned to be such perfect little capitalists - what the record companies fail to recognise is that if their product is good, we want a physical item in our sweaty little hands.
If their product is good...
The main reason the RIAA is causing all this mess is money. Which is ridiculous because they've got more than most people could ever dream of. They are so evil.
Even more ridiculous when one considers that Eric Clapton only gets $5.00 every time someone buys one of his CDs, and he has the highest royalty rates of any major label musician. It costs under a buck to make a single CD, so where is the rest of the money going? Mostly, to the record companies.
And what they don't pocket is absorbed by the major music outlets, which were convicted of price fixing (http://www.musiccdsettlement.com/english/default.htm), although I have yet to notice CD prices doing anything but increasing since that ruling was handed down.
Considering the fact that I bought over 1,000 CDS between 1994 and 2000, I think I have a right to bitch.
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on 2003-07-17 11:09 pm (UTC)Americans are conditioned to be such perfect little capitalists - what the record companies fail to recognise is that if their product is good, we want a physical item in our sweaty little hands.
If their product is good...
The main reason the RIAA is causing all this mess is money. Which is ridiculous because they've got more than most people could ever dream of. They are so evil.
Even more ridiculous when one considers that Eric Clapton only gets $5.00 every time someone buys one of his CDs, and he has the highest royalty rates of any major label musician. It costs under a buck to make a single CD, so where is the rest of the money going? Mostly, to the record companies.
And what they don't pocket is absorbed by the major music outlets, which were convicted of price fixing (http://www.musiccdsettlement.com/english/default.htm), although I have yet to notice CD prices doing anything but increasing since that ruling was handed down.
Considering the fact that I bought over 1,000 CDS between 1994 and 2000, I think I have a right to bitch.