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Moby Says Techie Fans = Fewer Sales
jalefkowit writes: "Launch is reporting that Moby explains the recent slide in sales for his newest album, "18", by describing what he calls the 'Pearl Jam Effect': bands and artists with more tech-savvy fans sell fewer albums than those with less tech-savvy fans, as the techies will disproportionately get their copies of the album from friends with CD burners or P2P services rather than from record stores. What do you think, are we putting our favorite bands in a bind?"
the super rich.
To me, the "Pearl Jam Effect" means that they haven't released a good album since Vs. Sure, there have been a few decent tracks here and there, but none of the albums since Vs. has been worth a hill of beans... Is this what Moby means?
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Moby's have no more linked to techie than 802.11b have to do with cat 5 wire. Simply he just sucks.
I thought Eminem summed it up when he said:
"And Moby, you can get stomped by Obie,
You 36 year old bald headed fag blow me
You don't know me, you're too old
Let go, it's over, nobody listens to techno"
See its easy, NOBODY LISTENS TO TECHNO!
For Final Jeopardy, can you name someone that DOESN'T outsell Weezer?
Heh. Insert gripe about how you're listening to Rush. Bwahahahahaha...
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Hey, I'd like a piece of Britney too, y'know.
Snicker...
Another prepackaged corporate whore.
I liked him better the first time, when he was called "Vanilla Ice".
the day i take music advice from eminem is the day that i poke my ear drums w/ a really long q-tip.
CLUNK scratchscratch I don't scratch think POP vinly quality scratch is quite POP scratch as POP good as scratch CD quality. scratchPOP scratchPOP scratchPOP scratchPOP...
And you never know. All that repressed homosexuality may well come to the surface.
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Perhaps he ought to find a new demographic to target. Hmmmm...let's see. Perhaps he can come out with music that appeals to the Amish. Of course, he'd need to use some method of recording that doesn't use electricity. But I have a solution for this. I've seen individuals who can say something into a seashell and it'll hold the noise until it's released. These individuals happened to be cartoon characters, but that doesn't matter. He could just fill up the seashells, record his music, and sell them to the Amish. But alas, the Amish don't have much money. I guess he'll just collect barns or something. Boy oh boy.
P.S. My knowledge of the Amish is limited to what I've seen in the movie Kingpin. In no way did I mean to imply by the above that the Amish are a bunch of backwards people who need entertainment. If you are an Amish person and were offended, then I don't care because you're going to hell for reading content on the tool of the devil while you ought to be plowing a field or something. Good day.
Finally someone has figured out how Britney Spears manages to sell as many CDs as she does.
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autopr0n is like, down and stuff.
he first is that nobody is "pirating". Pirating is what the chinese do when they take American music, video or computer products, duplicate them and then SELL them.
No, piracy is when I go out in my boat, make lots of "Arrrr, me maties" noises and talk to my parrot. What you're talking about is copyright-infringement. Everytime you use the word 'piracy' in this context, you're implicity letting them determine the playing field for this argument. Regardless of whether you support the record companies or not, don't help spread their propaganda.
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