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I hate it when Walmart does something I like!
;-) It looks like they may be dragging the music industry into a more reasonable price structure for music CDs. Apparently, Walmart sells 20% of the major label's output, and they want lower costs to them. It only accounts for 2% of Walmart's annual sales, so they can stop selling music and they won't notice the diff, whereas it would be catastrophic to the music industry.
This is a good thing, the industry has been gouging consumers and shafting bands for a very long time for their own enrichment. The price on music has gone up without an increase in compensation to the artists. But it doesn't address my fundamental problem with music: there's just nothing new that really grabs me. The last new music that I acquired outside of my wife's music library being merged with mine, are The Ditty Bops, because the bands that I really like no longer record, and, as I said, I haven't heard much new that really grabbed me.
And this isn't even thinking about what things like iTunes are doing to the industry. BTW, I haven't bought a single tune off iTunes, though my wife is a regular shopper. And I'm totally ignoring the censoring that Walmart does because normally it is with the permission of the artist as to whether or not their work is edited.
I really need to find some more tunes.
http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/6558540/walmart_wants_10_cds
http://news.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/03/25/1856245
Edit: heh. Just noticed a comment at the end of the article that this article is over 3 years old. Obviously nothing much changed because of it. Still, it's a pleasant thought.
This is a good thing, the industry has been gouging consumers and shafting bands for a very long time for their own enrichment. The price on music has gone up without an increase in compensation to the artists. But it doesn't address my fundamental problem with music: there's just nothing new that really grabs me. The last new music that I acquired outside of my wife's music library being merged with mine, are The Ditty Bops, because the bands that I really like no longer record, and, as I said, I haven't heard much new that really grabbed me.
And this isn't even thinking about what things like iTunes are doing to the industry. BTW, I haven't bought a single tune off iTunes, though my wife is a regular shopper. And I'm totally ignoring the censoring that Walmart does because normally it is with the permission of the artist as to whether or not their work is edited.
I really need to find some more tunes.
http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/6558540/walmart_wants_10_cds
http://news.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/03/25/1856245
Edit: heh. Just noticed a comment at the end of the article that this article is over 3 years old. Obviously nothing much changed because of it. Still, it's a pleasant thought.
find some more tunes
If you REALLY need to find some more tunes, you might end up being as amused and entertained as I usually am by the whole concept of
And now I leave, having made myself feel like a frickin' commercial.