This comment makes no sense - things are only ever worth what people are willing to pay for them
Exactly, which is why iTunes - by far the most sucessful online music store - has failed to hit internal and external sales estimates. So record companies, being the stupid lot they are, think that raising the price will get them bigger profits when in fact, the opposite is true.
Personally, I think most popular music is tripe, and one only has to look at the explosion of "explicit" labels to see why... Go have a look at the Billboard charts on iTunes from 1990 on. The amount of increase in explicit music being pushed by labels has increased massively while - DURING THE SAME PERIOD - the music industry has gone in the dumper.
When are the record labels going to understand that their product isn't worth what they want to charge?
It's like the NBA - a big marketing scheme where the underlying product does not have the appeal nor the value their pushers would like us to assign...
What the hell is "a bit"? Up til now we've relied on references, past employers, education, appearance, marital status (observed), automobile choice, vocabulary, writing skill, personality, psychological profiling, interpersonal skills, disabled status, minority status, and google. If they can't protect themselves with all that crap, what makes 'em think a credit history is gonna do it? I just don't see vast hordes of businesses being sued for employee transgressions. Some, sure, but so many that business now has to resort to the supercharged electronic private dick?
Leave my frickin' credit history and whatever else they dredge up with this tool alone.
Frankly, it's a wonder this country ever got to the position it has without giving employers the ability to shove a probe up every potential employee's yingyang.
I'd rather build a shelter in the middle of the jungle and eat roots and dried wildebeest dung for the rest of my life than have some pencil-pushing jackass looking over my personal business before I interview for a job.
I'm still waiting for a GarageBand for writers. That's something I'd really like to see.
I agree. But the point is, the music industry (including musicians themselves) lives under a different business model than any other type of creative group. And a GarageBand for writers or scuptors, while cool, isn't likely.
My point is only that most of the top musical hit makers you can point to couldn't hold Renior or Melville's jockstrap, creatively speaking. I like listening to Oasis, but "(What's The Story) Morning Glory" is not worth more than Tolstoy's War and Peace.
I wish I had the type of nimble, strong, and boisterous advocacy for my art that independent musicians seem to have. The darn Pepsi deal hasn't even officially started yet and they're already trying to maximize profit.
Their machine would be pretty impressive to me if there weren't other types of artists out there in much greater need. I mean, you can't swing a friggin' cat without hitting some longhair with a guitar. But a painter, sculptor etc? Have fun trying to "get paid" for that.
I have a TiBook 400mhz that will be 3 years old next month. It's been with me to four continents and had seen use EVERY SINGLE DAY since I got it. Not once has it malfunctioned or broke. While it looks like it's 3 years old, it still works great. Meanwhile, I wait with baited breath for some dipshit out there show me a wintel notebook purchased in Feb 2000 that's still giving acceptable service. Yeah, right.
I have both DirecTV and Comcast Digital Cable. The DirecTV signal may be affected by weather once or twice during a typical summer (I've had it since 1997), and only when there is a torrential downpour.
On the other hand, my Comcast Digital Cable goes out for short periods at least once every two weeks. And besides that, even though I have ancient DirecTV receivers, the Comcast Digital Cable picture is vastly inferior to DirecTV.
The cable company advertising RE bad sat reception is bunk.
Oh, yeah, there's the Sunday Ticket on DirecTV. Even if the darn thing worked only 50% of the time, I'd still have it for this reason alone.
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Exactly, which is why iTunes - by far the most sucessful online music store - has failed to hit internal and external sales estimates. So record companies, being the stupid lot they are, think that raising the price will get them bigger profits when in fact, the opposite is true.
Personally, I think most popular music is tripe, and one only has to look at the explosion of "explicit" labels to see why... Go have a look at the Billboard charts on iTunes from 1990 on. The amount of increase in explicit music being pushed by labels has increased massively while - DURING THE SAME PERIOD - the music industry has gone in the dumper.
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When are the record labels going to understand that their product isn't worth what they want to charge?
It's like the NBA - a big marketing scheme where the underlying product does not have the appeal nor the value their pushers would like us to assign...
Tech savvy? I think not, most of the boobs running around this site are incompetent hacks, pretenders, or both.
Yeah, let's all bury our heads up our asses for fear we might drop a cigarette butt on Europa...
What the hell is "a bit"? Up til now we've relied on references, past employers, education, appearance, marital status (observed), automobile choice, vocabulary, writing skill, personality, psychological profiling, interpersonal skills, disabled status, minority status, and google. If they can't protect themselves with all that crap, what makes 'em think a credit history is gonna do it? I just don't see vast hordes of businesses being sued for employee transgressions. Some, sure, but so many that business now has to resort to the supercharged electronic private dick?
Leave my frickin' credit history and whatever else they dredge up with this tool alone.
Frankly, it's a wonder this country ever got to the position it has without giving employers the ability to shove a probe up every potential employee's yingyang.
I'd rather build a shelter in the middle of the jungle and eat roots and dried wildebeest dung for the rest of my life than have some pencil-pushing jackass looking over my personal business before I interview for a job.
Heck, I'd rather see Karen Finley ram a yam up her butt than listen to most of the music out there!
I agree. But the point is, the music industry (including musicians themselves) lives under a different business model than any other type of creative group. And a GarageBand for writers or scuptors, while cool, isn't likely.
My point is only that most of the top musical hit makers you can point to couldn't hold Renior or Melville's jockstrap, creatively speaking. I like listening to Oasis, but "(What's The Story) Morning Glory" is not worth more than Tolstoy's War and Peace.
Their machine would be pretty impressive to me if there weren't other types of artists out there in much greater need. I mean, you can't swing a friggin' cat without hitting some longhair with a guitar. But a painter, sculptor etc? Have fun trying to "get paid" for that.
I have a TiBook 400mhz that will be 3 years old next month. It's been with me to four continents and had seen use EVERY SINGLE DAY since I got it. Not once has it malfunctioned or broke. While it looks like it's 3 years old, it still works great. Meanwhile, I wait with baited breath for some dipshit out there show me a wintel notebook purchased in Feb 2000 that's still giving acceptable service. Yeah, right.
I have both DirecTV and Comcast Digital Cable. The DirecTV signal may be affected by weather once or twice during a typical summer (I've had it since 1997), and only when there is a torrential downpour.
On the other hand, my Comcast Digital Cable goes out for short periods at least once every two weeks. And besides that, even though I have ancient DirecTV receivers, the Comcast Digital Cable picture is vastly inferior to DirecTV.
The cable company advertising RE bad sat reception is bunk.
Oh, yeah, there's the Sunday Ticket on DirecTV. Even if the darn thing worked only 50% of the time, I'd still have it for this reason alone.