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Record Labels Struggle With the Album's Demise
Supplying yet more evidence, if more were needed, of the dire straits the music business increasingly finds itself in — reader cphilo sends us a NYTimes article about the death of the album as the mainstay of profit, and the record labels' struggle to adopt to the new realities. The article notes the trend of the labels signing artists for a single song, maybe two, and a ring tone.
Well, if only without those @#%$@ pirates.
Now labels can only sign up a singer for a couple of songs, then they need to ditch him before he becomes so popular that his songs are pirated.
For new singers, most people don't know, or cannot be bothered to download/pirate their new songs, and the only way to listen to those songs is to buy them.
Virtual Betting on Facebook for non-geeks.
IMNSHO, The Beatles were not that good a band. They were a boy-band for teenage girls, just like the current ones (sorry, can't really remember any names). They had some good sound technicians and engineers though, and some individuals in Beatles obviously proved themselves to have higher ambitions. I don't think we will remember Justin Timberlake as much as we do John Lennon, but I also think that it has much more to do with his politics than with his music.
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Do you even know what a business model is? You probably think it's a 1/100 replica of the Chrysler building.
That joke is so contrived... If you _truly_ had such a short attention span you'd never get the comment past slashdot's 20 second timer between hitting reply and submit.
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Please, don't insult music by calling Tom Waits a "musician." The man sounds like a gravel truck in need of maintenance, his lyrics are about as sophisticated as nursery rhymes, and the backing sounds aren't worthy of any note whatsoever.
There are plenty of real blues artists. Don't push pretenders.
I've fallen off your lawn, and I can't get up.