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Record Store Owners Blame RIAA For Destroying Music Industry
techdirt writes "It's not like it hasn't been said many times before, but it's nice to see the NY Times running an opinion piece about the RIAA from a pair of record store owners which basically points out how at every opportunity, the RIAA has made the wrong move and made things worse: 'The major labels wanted to kill the single. Instead they killed the album. The association wanted to kill Napster. Instead it killed the compact disc. And today it's not just record stores that are in trouble, but the labels themselves, now belatedly embracing the Internet revolution without having quite figured out how to make it pay.' It's not every day that you see a NY Times piece use the word 'boneheadedness' to describe the strategy of an organization."
Going into a big storem getting what you want cheaper is some how depressing?
Do you actually ahve some relevant points, are are you just an ass?
I don't know where you live, but most of the US does not look like one big parking lot.
When mom and pop stores offer something to compete in the market, then they can make sales.
Going into a smelly store, to not find what I want and get a surley attitude from the tatooed, pierced, slack jaw behind the counter isn't exactly going to get me to come back.
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Do you know that free time is a shit poor metric of quality of life? You're an idiot. Poor by today's standards would be a massive, massive improvement over even all but the most elite in our society a hundred years ago. When was the last time you shit in a hole in the ground (or ceramic pot and threw it out the window)? Contracted a life-threatening disease from eating food/drinking water or walking through a market? Actually feared for your ability to produce enough food for you and your family to survive? Had a family member die of a strange disease for which the doctors couldn't even diagnose a malady? Had a family member die in an industrial accident? These things happen much less often than they did in the past (and are quantitative, unlike happiness). If you think you spend too much time at work and are too materialistic then get a goddamn different job and don't buy as many things. Otherwise, stop whining about it. Shit wasn't better in the past, whether you would like it to be or not.