May 23rd, 2007
With Nine Inch Nails being one of my favorite bands, and Trent Reznor being a pretty intelligent guy, I was really interested in what he has to say on the state of the music business. It is especially interesting to see how he would like to release an album:
“I’ve have one record left that I owe a major label, then I will never be seen in a situation like this again. If I could do what I want right now, I would put out my next album, you could download it from my site at as high a bit-rate as you want, pay $4 through PayPal. Come see the show and buy a T-shirt if you like it. I would put out a nicely packaged merchandise piece, if you want to own a physical thing. And it would come out the day that it’s done in the studio, not this “Let’s wait three months” bulls—.”
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May 10th, 2007
It’s a Thursday and you’re in need of some random links!
First, has it ever bother you that the keypad on the calculator is different from the one on the phone? The bounty of internet offers several explanations (here and here.)
Second, here’s some further proof of some serious head illness in the recording industry– fingerprint collection and 30 day waiting period?!?!? One would think you’re buying a handgun– nope, just trying to sell some used CDs. This alone makes me want to go and pirate some stuff.
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December 30th, 2005
Sorry for the abundance of RIAA releated news today - but these guys are just so damn slick.
From
ArsTechnica the story of RIAA coercing a 15 year old girl to perjury.
Damn, it just doesn’t get better than that now does it?
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December 30th, 2005
I really wish this site[itch.in] was a joke, but I seriously doubt that it is. If Coldplya/Virgin don’t want me to listen to music on my iPod or computer (also note the reference to “Macintosh PC” - idiots) then they can go fuck themselves, I won’t buy it, even if I might like it. I won’t even buy it off of iTunes just becuase of this dumb stunt. Unless Coldplay recants.
Until the recording industry understands market pricing, fair use and most of all quality music they will continue to lose money. It is just a matter of time until a big name act cuts the labels out entirely and self publishes - digitally. The labels need to adapt or they will find themselves obsolete.
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December 28th, 2005
Here is a great summary of the RIAA’s efforts this year. It’s a lot more funny when you put it all in one place.
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