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Napster Not To Blame
enjo13 writes "Slate is running an article on the music industries recent troubles. It articulates exactly what Slashdot has preached all along.. that the Music industry is suffering at its own hands and has no one to blame but itself. All I have to say is... finally." There's actually been a number of pieces like this, but I think this one says it best.
Napster and its successors are obviously not the problem...its just like the article says...its those damn cassette tapes! Ban them!
Looks like Ford is getting into the act.
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Yeah, really. And Duh! According to the current poll it's the screaming dancing guy from MS. Sheesh.
WWJD.... for a Klondike bar?
of course not... we've known all along - its Canada!
I don't think the RIAA goes far enough. I blame cassette tapes for
the 1979 oil crisis
the hostage crisis in Iran
the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan
and El Nino
The Mongrel Dogs Who Teach
18-25? 18-25 I wish. It is more like 12-18 now days.
And its fun to watch her videos.
You seem to have misspelled cleavage.
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I won't believe that Britney's albums are not selling as well as they used to because everyone wants to get them for free.
Of course not, Britney's albums aren't selling as well as they might because they don't include any naked pictures of her in the booklet.
There are benefits to owning a properly-mastered CD. No matter what people say, CD-R's aren't as durable. Plus, I really enjoy buying the case for the artwork and music info. A 48 CD case full of black-Sharpie-on-white-Verbatim CD's gets on my nerves after a while.
Finally, I too have bought CD's from artists I would not have before. But I have also NOT purchased albums from artists because they sucked much harder than I thought they would. And I have 20 or 30 friends in the same boat.