A Glimmer Of Light
A comment from Stu read:
The problem is that by listening to a wide variety of music and making up their own minds, the general public is buying music which is good, rather than 'music' that the music industry would like them to buy.
Spot on, Stu. I have this wonderful daydream where bands sell all their CDs by direct mail order and/or downloading via their own websites. A number of bands, especially on the folk, world and underground scenes, already do this, as do a growing number of classical-music people. Peter Maxwell-Davis, the Orkney composer, bought all rights on recordings of his works which had been recorded for Collins Classics, when they went belly-up. He set up a website (www.maxopus.com) where people can buy downloads, or compile their own custom CDs, complete with bespoke sleevenotes, for around ten quid. If all this led to the death of the parasitic music INDUSTRY, and the birth of a thousand cottage-scale businesses of musicians selling their own wares, I'd be a far happier bunny, and far more optimistic about the future diversity of recorded music. And I think it just might happen.
The problem is that by listening to a wide variety of music and making up their own minds, the general public is buying music which is good, rather than 'music' that the music industry would like them to buy.
Spot on, Stu. I have this wonderful daydream where bands sell all their CDs by direct mail order and/or downloading via their own websites. A number of bands, especially on the folk, world and underground scenes, already do this, as do a growing number of classical-music people. Peter Maxwell-Davis, the Orkney composer, bought all rights on recordings of his works which had been recorded for Collins Classics, when they went belly-up. He set up a website (www.maxopus.com) where people can buy downloads, or compile their own custom CDs, complete with bespoke sleevenotes, for around ten quid. If all this led to the death of the parasitic music INDUSTRY, and the birth of a thousand cottage-scale businesses of musicians selling their own wares, I'd be a far happier bunny, and far more optimistic about the future diversity of recorded music. And I think it just might happen.
posted by PaulV at 20.2.05
1 Comments:
the music industry should dry its little tears and add value to its products that cannot be so easily downloaded. perhaps a cd in a dvd format case with a booklet and photos instead of a scrap of paper in a grudging cd case.
time for them to realise that they left it too late and that the gravy train ran into the buffers.
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