Comments on: RCRD LBL Drags MP3 Blogging Into Semi-Legitimacy http://idolator.com/323065/rcrd-lbl-drags-mp3-blogging-into-semi-legitimacy Music News, Reviews, and Gossip on Idolator.com Sat, 26 May 2012 13:44:53 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Anonymous http://idolator.com/323065/rcrd-lbl-drags-mp3-blogging-into-semi-legitimacy/comment-page-1#comment-347312 Anonymous Sat, 17 Nov 2007 05:22:28 +0000 http://b4037efddf3116450e73112341acff74#comment-347312 <p>@<a href="#c3005226">ninety_nine</a>: Hey 99, I'm with you. I occassionally get free CDs because I work in the business, but I mostly buy old honky tonk records at the store down the street, and then I buy my new music from eMusic or CD Baby (CD Baby were one of the first distributors in the digital age to support independent artists, lest we forget!) or live shows (for which I still pay cover, even if it's a client). I find anything with gross corporate over-advertising, no matter how positive the initial intentions, will eventually suck hard. (Remember when Friendster was still new and Myspace was underground?). As a side note, I hope live shows become as vital as they used to be, because I believe it's not only a much better way to judge a band's sincerity, but you know the cash you spend on merch and cover has an exponentially better chance of staying in the musician's hands.</p> @ninety_nine: Hey 99, I’m with you. I occassionally get free CDs because I work in the business, but I mostly buy old honky tonk records at the store down the street, and then I buy my new music from eMusic or CD Baby (CD Baby were one of the first distributors in the digital age to support independent artists, lest we forget!) or live shows (for which I still pay cover, even if it’s a client). I find anything with gross corporate over-advertising, no matter how positive the initial intentions, will eventually suck hard. (Remember when Friendster was still new and Myspace was underground?). As a side note, I hope live shows become as vital as they used to be, because I believe it’s not only a much better way to judge a band’s sincerity, but you know the cash you spend on merch and cover has an exponentially better chance of staying in the musician’s hands.

]]> By: ninety_nine http://idolator.com/323065/rcrd-lbl-drags-mp3-blogging-into-semi-legitimacy/comment-page-1#comment-347322 ninety_nine Fri, 16 Nov 2007 07:28:46 +0000 http://b4037efddf3116450e73112341acff74#comment-347322 <p>Aren't torrent music collectors just another version of WoW players? They couldn't, and wouldn't drive 7 millions copies of Britney anyway.</p> <p>As someone who is completely happy to pay for music, could you do my apparently narrow demo a favor and slip in with regularity the reason that at least some people aren't buying music because it's so fucking hard to buy? My amp is 19 years old (and it only plays music once in a blue moon), so a 128-bit MP3 does me just fine. Having been burned by Yahoo music (I gave up trying to re-register all my .wmv files) and finding ITunes 1.0 cumbersome and annoying (having ripped all my CDs by then), I've swore off proprietary formats.</p> <p>I know y'all are catering to a more interested fan than myself, but the issue of the day is still predominantly that you cannot find the same range of labels and acts at the same range of retailers on the web that you could in RL. There is no Tower on the web. And so I read about cool bands. If they turn up on eMusic, fine, but that was frustrating enough that I've even given up that amount of effort.</p> <p>Sure, I used to go to Underground Records (obvs, I know, but it was Ohio) in my hometown religiously, hoping to find a new REM boot. But those days are gone. I'm a middle-aged man who finds the clerks at Urethra on A to be annoying like dicks. Write about an interesting band, and give me a link to a place I can give the band money and get my download, and I'm done. Wrap it up in Jobs monolpolist bullshit, well fuck you. I'll listen to a 22-year-old Replacements album instead.</p> Aren’t torrent music collectors just another version of WoW players? They couldn’t, and wouldn’t drive 7 millions copies of Britney anyway.

As someone who is completely happy to pay for music, could you do my apparently narrow demo a favor and slip in with regularity the reason that at least some people aren’t buying music because it’s so fucking hard to buy? My amp is 19 years old (and it only plays music once in a blue moon), so a 128-bit MP3 does me just fine. Having been burned by Yahoo music (I gave up trying to re-register all my .wmv files) and finding ITunes 1.0 cumbersome and annoying (having ripped all my CDs by then), I’ve swore off proprietary formats.

I know y’all are catering to a more interested fan than myself, but the issue of the day is still predominantly that you cannot find the same range of labels and acts at the same range of retailers on the web that you could in RL. There is no Tower on the web. And so I read about cool bands. If they turn up on eMusic, fine, but that was frustrating enough that I’ve even given up that amount of effort.

Sure, I used to go to Underground Records (obvs, I know, but it was Ohio) in my hometown religiously, hoping to find a new REM boot. But those days are gone. I’m a middle-aged man who finds the clerks at Urethra on A to be annoying like dicks. Write about an interesting band, and give me a link to a place I can give the band money and get my download, and I’m done. Wrap it up in Jobs monolpolist bullshit, well fuck you. I’ll listen to a 22-year-old Replacements album instead.

]]> By: Captain Wrong http://idolator.com/323065/rcrd-lbl-drags-mp3-blogging-into-semi-legitimacy/comment-page-1#comment-347332 Captain Wrong Thu, 15 Nov 2007 09:12:22 +0000 http://b4037efddf3116450e73112341acff74#comment-347332 <p>Really ugly, overly busy site.</p> Really ugly, overly busy site.

]]> By: Catbirdseat http://idolator.com/323065/rcrd-lbl-drags-mp3-blogging-into-semi-legitimacy/comment-page-1#comment-347342 Catbirdseat Thu, 15 Nov 2007 04:49:32 +0000 http://b4037efddf3116450e73112341acff74#comment-347342 <p>RAGANDBONESHOP FTW</p> RAGANDBONESHOP FTW

]]> By: ragandboneshop http://idolator.com/323065/rcrd-lbl-drags-mp3-blogging-into-semi-legitimacy/comment-page-1#comment-347352 ragandboneshop Thu, 15 Nov 2007 04:28:49 +0000 http://b4037efddf3116450e73112341acff74#comment-347352 <p>I'd like to buy a vowel, Pat.</p> I’d like to buy a vowel, Pat.

]]> By: the rich girls are weeping http://idolator.com/323065/rcrd-lbl-drags-mp3-blogging-into-semi-legitimacy/comment-page-1#comment-347362 the rich girls are weeping Thu, 15 Nov 2007 04:01:42 +0000 http://b4037efddf3116450e73112341acff74#comment-347362 <p>Oh, so like, that's why there's a story on Rcrd Lbl in the WSJ today.</p> <p><a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB119508767828793513.html">[online.wsj.com]</a></p> <p>Have I hollered RUN FOR THE HILLS!!! today yet? Oh, no? I guess I just did. That being said, I kind of wish I'd thought of this "business model" first. But you didn't hear that from me.</p> Oh, so like, that’s why there’s a story on Rcrd Lbl in the WSJ today.

[online.wsj.com]

Have I hollered RUN FOR THE HILLS!!! today yet? Oh, no? I guess I just did. That being said, I kind of wish I’d thought of this “business model” first. But you didn’t hear that from me.

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