Actually Pizza Hut did it, I have 2 of the CDs right now. I also remember you could go into Sam Goody and picking single songs from this big fat book and get up to 90 minutes of only songs you wanted to hear on a cassette. I don't remember if you could get a CD from it or not, but it only went on for a few months, then was discontinued.
Eventually, I do think the time will come when anything more than 5-10 years old that you want on CD will be recorded right there in the store, and only new CDs will be pressed, with all the accompanying liner notes and art. It will become just too cost-prohibitive to have backlogs of CDs sitting in a warehouse waiting to be shipped.
It sure would be much easier to have the tracks sitting on a CD-R burning machine and just picking individual songs from the 40s, 50s, 60s, and 70s that you like being put on a CD. Even at $.50 - $.75 a song, the burned CDs would fly off the shelves. There would still be people downloading off the Internet, but I think most people, if given the choice, would rather get tracks they know are complete and high quality, already on a CD. Of course, the record companies would find a way to screw it up by adding encryption, or some such other crap to each CD.
"With our new secure brain implant, anyone can enjoy our content in the comfort of their own brains, with no chance they could transmit it to another. Of course, to be fully effective, we must disable the vocal component of each such entity, so as not to have any incidental transmission. The chance for piracy from a singing entity is too great."
Biggest laugh: This technology "encourages competition and allows consumers greater freedom of choice."
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Actually Pizza Hut did it, I have 2 of the CDs right now. I also remember you could go into Sam Goody and picking single songs from this big fat book and get up to 90 minutes of only songs you wanted to hear on a cassette. I don't remember if you could get a CD from it or not, but it only went on for a few months, then was discontinued.
Eventually, I do think the time will come when anything more than 5-10 years old that you want on CD will be recorded right there in the store, and only new CDs will be pressed, with all the accompanying liner notes and art. It will become just too cost-prohibitive to have backlogs of CDs sitting in a warehouse waiting to be shipped.
It sure would be much easier to have the tracks sitting on a CD-R burning machine and just picking individual songs from the 40s, 50s, 60s, and 70s that you like being put on a CD. Even at $.50 - $.75 a song, the burned CDs would fly off the shelves. There would still be people downloading off the Internet, but I think most people, if given the choice, would rather get tracks they know are complete and high quality, already on a CD. Of course, the record companies would find a way to screw it up by adding encryption, or some such other crap to each CD.
Maybe someday they will learn; just not today.
"With our new secure brain implant, anyone can enjoy our content in the comfort of their own brains, with no chance they could transmit it to another. Of course, to be fully effective, we must disable the vocal component of each such entity, so as not to have any incidental transmission. The chance for piracy from a singing entity is too great."
Biggest laugh: This technology "encourages competition and allows consumers greater freedom of choice."