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Originally Posted by sage691  As usual with most all of your posts Dean the glass is indeed half empty.
BTW, what makes you think that a recording of music is not a "gadget" ? You press a button or click the mouse, and the music is played back.
Records have always been nothing more than advertisements anyway; they are recordings of music, not the music itself. They capture an emotion, a feeling of power, and then translate it to someone else.
I keep hearing the same old dead, tired argument on here that pirating is killing record sales. But pirating of WHAT ? The crapola mainstream cookie-cutter garbage that isn't worth buying anyway ?
If you have a great CD with some truly innovative music and artwork to go along with it, AND you have a great live show with lots of charisma, then people will want to buy a real hardcopy of that record to have. I didn't say don't try and sell the records, I just meant not to look at record sales as the end-all-be-all in today's market.  |
sorry I don't buy it at all, first, records are the product, we wind up putting hundreds of hours and sweat, our hearts and a pile of money into making a record, and making it the best we can, and we send it out to radio and some little prick intern sends a copy to one of these pirate sites and suddenly before the record is even available from ITUNES or in stores, it's being pirated and either given away and also being sold at the price of a 1.00 for the whole album, so when you're an indie paying out of pocket for everything, how do think this helps making enough money to make another record.
And you seem to be looking at it from the prospective of a rock band, but what if you have a jazz record with a much smaller market and fewer venues?
And as far as having a great cd, whose to say what's great and what reaches people?