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?"

Comments

Woe is..

[Anonymous Coward]

the super rich.

Re:Woe is..

[Anonymous Coward]

Parent dissed Pinkerton. Please mod back to the Hellpit that the poster crawled out of. Thank you.

"Pearl Jam Effect"

[pjl5602]

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?

The Real Reason

[hazat2]

Moby's have no more linked to techie than 802.11b have to do with cat 5 wire. Simply he just sucks.

damnit moby, listen to Eminem

[woodstok]

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!

Re:Did anybody read the article?

[wo1verin3]

For Final Jeopardy, can you name someone that DOESN'T outsell Weezer?

Re:Well.,..

[brianosaurus]

Heh. Insert gripe about how you're listening to Rush. Bwahahahahaha...

Re:Excuses, excuses this time from the techies

[Monkey Angst]

I believe moby is right on the money with his claim but the times are a changing and little aside from legislation can stop them.

Legislation can stop music piracy? Well, then there ought to be a law!

Re:Excuses, excuses this time from the techies

[FunkSoulBrother]

Hey, I'd like a piece of Britney too, y'know.

Re:The real reason

[rudiger]

the day i take music advice from eminem is the day that i poke my ear drums w/ a really long q-tip.

Vinyl quality

[ghjm]

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...

Re:Vinyl quality

[Glytch]

Damn you! Now my coffee is decorating my desk via a trip through my nose. Jerk. :)

Re:Vinyl quality

[caveat]

a clean record, on a $6000 turntable, with a $2500 tonearm and $3000 needle, through an $8000 tuble amp with a $15,000 set of speakers, makes a CD sound like a clown farting through a kazoo. you just can't get that kind of warmth and tonality with canned digital music.
of course, for a system us mortals can afford, CDs sound perfectly fine (espeically since the amp's probably digital).

Give it time

[hayden]

The next big thing will come along and "sing" the same thing about Eminem. By which time he will be a fat balding ex-rap star who's never changing lyrics will seem a bit out of place and who is bitching about how much money he isn't making these days.

And you never know. All that repressed homosexuality may well come to the surface.

Re:Give it time

[tealover]

Is that you Moby ?

Well that explains it

[Swaffs]

Finally someone has figured out how Britney Spears manages to sell as many CDs as she does.

Just downloaded it...

[autopr0n]

Thanks for the reminder, slashdot!

Re:Pirating is NOT new

[rweir]

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.