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EMI Only Selling CDs To Mega-Chains From Now On

Posted by samzenpus on from the another-brick-in-the-wall dept.

farrellj writes "According to Zeropaid, record company EMI has been notifying small music stores that they will no longer be able to buy EMI CDs from EMI, and will have to buy product from mega-chains like Walmart. Independent record store customers are some of the most loyal music buyers around. You are not going to find the back catalog, what used to be the staple of the music business, at your local Walmart. One wonders when the music business is going to run out of feet to shoot?"

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  1. CDs? by Tenebrousedge · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'm 15

    What's a CD?

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    1. Re:CDs? by morghanphoenix · · Score: 5, Funny

      I thought CDs were those coasters AOL used to send you.

    2. Re:CDs? by Itninja · · Score: 5, Funny

      It's a Certificate of Deposit (ask your parents for details). I am still befuddled what this fiduciary tool has to do with EMI...maybe they are going bankrupt.

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    3. Re:CDs? by calmofthestorm · · Score: 4, Funny

      What you burn your music to after you get it from bittorrent, if you want to back it up or make a mix for a friend.

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    4. Re:CDs? by Jafafa+Hots · · Score: 4, Funny

      Exactly! And now that they're cutting manufacturing and finally realizing the huge economic benefit of not having to produce and ship physical product, they're gonna drastically lower the price of downloads to reflect the drastically lower real cost of them! We all win!

      wait.. what? what do you mean no?

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    5. Re:CDs? by rbrausse · · Score: 2, Funny

      hey - he is 15. don't overstrain him with ancient relics like AOL

    6. Re:CDs? by RancidMilk · · Score: 2, Funny

      What part of the word "no" are you having difficulty with?

      Well, I get messed up at the 'n' and I'm afraid that it doesn't get much better after that.

    7. Re:CDs? by samriel · · Score: 2, Funny

      so americans can also enjoy the service we europeans have been enjoying for a year now :)

      Us Yanks already have Jango, last.fm, Pandora, etc. Spotify may be better, but I'd say we can get by for now.

  2. Not a surprise... by MaskedSlacker · · Score: 3, Funny

    It's been years since they stopped wanting my business. It's about times these stores stopped getting special treatment. Customers are overrated anyway.

  3. They're out of feet by kawabago · · Score: 4, Funny

    They're out of feet, that was an EMI gonad.

  4. Re:Justifying Piracy by MaskedSlacker · · Score: 4, Funny

    You accidentally a word.

  5. Re:Justifying Piracy by bersl2 · · Score: 2, Funny

    He didn't accidentally the verb, however. That's an important.

  6. Re:What the hell? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    You lie! Slashdot reliably informs me that it is fine to pirate music whenever I feel like it, because musicians should make their money from live performances yadda yadda Beethoven yadda yadda player piano lawsuits yadda yadda.

    Now you're saying that doing live performances is very low-earning and doesn't provide a decent income unless you are famous enough to be already filling stadiums. That is just un-possible. Slashdot readers are famous for expertise in business management (which as we know is a lame activity done by jerks that is nowhere near as difficult or intellectual as installing software patches or writing v23332 of the companies timesheet software).

  7. Feet to shoot by HikingStick · · Score: 2, Funny

    One wonders when the Music Business is going to run out of feet to shoot?

    Seeing as they are a bunch of snakes, I don't believe they had any feet with which to begin.

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  8. Re:Meh. Don't buy RIAA regardless of who's selling by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Well maybe. If you rub it the right way and make a good impression.