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Why should i pay for music?

People have been making music since the dawn of time. Paying for it in little bite sized disks is a fairly new invention. If you dont want people to hear your music, then don't release it. The point of releasing music is to get other people to hear it. It is not to make money. especially in the internet age where you dont even have to go out and buy little plastic disks, which do have a real world cost.

What about the artists! they say... how will they get paid?
my answer would be, that will work itself out*. Its not like lack of money = lack of music. I guarantee that if you remove the superstar golden sharktank profits from the industry, the general quality of music will improve.

A good example has to do with the band Nickleback. Someone has kindly remixed 2 nickleback songs together. the left channel is their first song, and the rigth channel is their latest hit. Listen to it, and tell me if manufactured music for profit is the way you want things to go.

* The thinking of the industry is not aimed in this direction yet. If it was, you would see an itunes like revolution in the way music is done.

Of course -- people have found all the music from the back catalog that they wanted to download. Current popular music sucks (with such pussy-rock bands as Nickelback). What are people being enticed to download if they already have purchased all they wanted from the history of music? This is the same thing that probably happened with DVDs -- people got DVD versions of all the movies from history that they wanted. Now DVD sales have slowed because people don't have as much of a choice of desired movies as they did.

Don't believe me that Nickelback sucks?
http://www.nintendorks.com/brandon/archives/000475 .php
Look for "How you remind me of someday.mp3".

Apparently a big part of StarCraft: Ghost is a subpar online mode where everyone stealths around while trying to capture a base or some crap. That certainly sounds more exciting than the single player story mode full of StarCraft lore that we've been waiting 3 years for.

This council is only open to societies' most respected artists and intellectuals: Linkin Park, Hoobastank, some guy that plays sports, a girl that appeared on Friends, and an actor from The 0.C."

The bands have contributed exclusive songs to the soundtrack of the much-anticipated video game "Halo 2." Although the songs won't be featured in the new game, each tune was inspired by the 3-year-old original "Halo," whose expansive terrain, advanced artificial intelligence and seamless gameplay raised the bar for first-person shooters. Halo 2: Original Soundtrack Volume One is due November 9, the same day the game hits stores. Hoobastank lend "Connected," while Breaking Benjamin offer "Blow Me Away." Although the members of each group are "Halo" fanatics, Incubus pay the biggest homage with a four-part musical epic called "The Odyssey." The 20-minute operetta actually came relatively easy to them, guitarist Mike Einziger said.

Would this track cost:
(a) 99c
(b) $1.25
(c) $1.98
(d) $2.50
(e) your sanity

FYI: This is a L/R channel overlay of two Nickleback "hit" songs from the NIAA. Support Independent music!

"Looks like somebody at Nintendojo's taken marketing 101, then..."

Maybe it's the same 'dojo staffer who took Japanese 101.

... he's just a little miffed about what happened to him at E3 '01.

SC64 is now out for the Nintendo 64, and it gets good reviews, in part for having an excellent interface. Of course it is not as full featured as the PC version, but the PC version requires $500-$1000 of hardware to play, and double that to play against a friend in the same room. The console will set you back ~$150 including the game, and "installation" is plug-&-play, unlike the PC's plug-&-pray.
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D. Fischer

Finally, some one who actually has played this game and can really comment on this article. I kept waiting for someone like you, instead of everyone else who was like "Huh? On the palm? That doesn't make sense". Way too many factless assumptions made in this article's responses.

Anyways, I'm very active on a certain (cough nintendorks.com cough) Nintendo board, and that was one of the big complaints about MP1. I myself have not played it too much, just rented it for a few days, but a lot of the people there repeatedly gripped about having to totally screw up their controller doing all that rotating, and then the blisters that all that turning creates. Those kind of mini-games were definitly not liked. It is kind of suprising Nintendo waited this long to do this though, with MP2 already out like you said.

How many people play Starcraft on their console?...none!

Not yet anyway. It's being released for the N64 on June 12th. You can even read a preview of it here

I've never even heard of this [Gameboy Advance]

Well, let me enlighten you to this wonderful piece of hardware:

Nintendorks.com (includes "exclusive" GBA picture ;)


DMGICE


IGN Pockets' GBA FAQ


Nintendo's Press Release

As for your question as to why it did better, the answer is games. The games on that sytem rock. It has my two favorite games (Tetrix and Super Mario Brothers Deluxe), a ton of cool RPG's and 2D games, and Pokemon is one of the fastest selling and biggest videogames of all time. It's consistantly number 1 and 2 on the weekly sales charts. The GB is far from dead, and since the GBA is going to have backwards compatiblity and bring the possiblility of internet connection to a handheld, it's going to keep on going.

Not quite. Some of the font in my distro at least is really messed up. A good example is any UBB. Looks fine in Netscape for Windows, but in Linux, the text is incredibly tiny and hard to read. And considering I do spend a lot of time on those type of boards, it's really annoying.

Are you talking about The Onion's Columbine article? I thought it was great too, and it is actually closer than you'd think. I especially like, "Thanks to stern new security measures, a militarized school environment and a massive public-relations effort designed to obscure all memory of the murderous event, members of Columbine's popular crowd are once again safe to reassert their social dominance and resume their proud, longstanding tradition of excluding those who do not fit in." A MB I frequent is having a discussion on topic similar to this, it's pretty interesing. Nick is The Flying Banana BTW.