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RIAA's Nasty Easter Egg
Bruha writes "It appears the RIAA is being very low key about the fact that the five major labels think that 99 cents per song is too cheap, and are discussing a price hike that would increase the tariff to $1.25 up to $2.99 per song. I was a huge fan of the 99c per song, but if they think that they can raise the price on me just because I don't buy full CDs anymore, they've got another thing coming. Suggestion: make good CDs, and maybe I'll buy the whole thing."
Nice.. /me opens kazaa
Record company execs: A bunch of greedy fucking bastards who were among the first against the wall when the revolution came.
Quantum materiae materietur marmota monax si marmota monax materiam possit materiari?
This is a capitalist country! If you don't like one company's price, go to another company and buy their product instead! So if you don't like the RIAA's prices then go to... uh... hmmm... fuck.
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Capitalism doesn't take away our right to whine and bitch. And this move, if true, deserves some whining and bitching.
I'm not poor, but I have much better things to spend 10 dollars on than whatever Britney Spears has moaned out recently.
the worst deal i've found on itunes has been .99 for a 4 second interlude track (janet jackson, i think
... Brrr!
Thanks God, It could be much worse: imagine 3 minutes of Janet Jackson
I havent used iTunes myself, but I would have expected then to make allowances for track length....
Mind you, that leaves Meatloaf fans open to having to pay $10 per track since his songs are so long...
Do you get to see the track length before downloading the file?
I have no sig yet I must scream.
Don't the mods read slashdot anymore?
Sorry, too busy modding.
I bet there are a bunch of Indian artists who will sell me music tracks for .50 a track. Stick THAT in your crack pipe and smoke it, RIAA!
I'm trying to teach myself to set people on fire with my mind... Is it hot in here?
And I bet he didn't even get to see a tit.
Perhaps their bussiness plan is this:
1)Announce possible big price increase.
2)People quickly buy more music before the increase.
3)profit!
4)Occasionaly remind people of possible price increase.
5)goto 2
killing me softly with his song?
"Life is great; without it, you'd be dead." -Harmony Korine
So this means you get five songs each day? Every day? In what way would that be better than radio itself (well, minus the fact that you get rid of those stupid DJs.
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Doesn't someone own the copyright to silence? :^P
One line blog. I hear that they're called Twitters now.
Not sure, but Simon and Garfunkel have the sound of it locked down. :-)
I also like the quote:
"Mine is a much better silent piece. I have been able to say in one minute what Cage could only say in four minutes and 33 seconds."
Translation: If you're enough of a moron to buy 99 cents worth of fuck all, you got what you paid for you cretinous pillock.
:)
Or in nicer terms, "white space != good investment"
I'm amazing. You aren't. SUCK IT
Making a large number of copies of my wife would be the equivelent and releasing the plague on the earth. I would think twice...
But this is a horrible example of reductionism. I could care less if you gangbanged a copy of my wife. As long as you aren't gangbanging the real thing (at least without paying me).
Kill him with extreme irony: use a silencer.
Why do people listen to songs from a band that can only turn out "3 or 4 good tracks", when you could buy an alblum from a good band and get an entire CDs worth of good music?
You might as well ask "why would you eat at the Chinese place that only has 3 or 4 good dishes when you could eat at the Mexican place that has a menu's worth of good dishes?"
Well, duh. Because I like Chinese better than I like Mexican (or whatever.) You listen to those 3 or 4 good songs because you like them better than that other band's entire album.
Maybe you should try looking at sources other than MTV for what you want to listen to.
Maybe that's too much fuckin' work. Not everybody has the time to make sure their taste is up to your discriminating standards, Mr. Culture Police.
I never have frustrations, the reason is, to wit:
If at first I don't succeed, I quit!
Everyone's heard his music.
;)
I mean, 4'33"... who hasn't heard that?
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