The Murder Of Music, Think Before You Act |
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The Murder Of Music, Think Before You Act |
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Dec 9 2009, 04:18 AM |
My friend and an awesome neoclassical shredder Borislav Mitic has recently signed for Lion Music which is the metal label from Finland that also released my album.
Just before he released his new record he posted a very seirous story about "The Murder of Music" on the Lion Music's website. Some of other Lion Music artists (including me) also gave their input on this subject. CHECK IT OUT HERE! I would be interested to see comments on Borislav's text from GMC community. -------------------- Check out my <a href="https://www.guitarmasterclass.net/instructor/Emir-Hot" target="_blank">Instructor profile</a>
www.emirhot.com www.myspace.com/emirhotguitar www.myspace.com/sevdahmetal |
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Dec 13 2009, 05:25 PM |
Artists have been poor through out all times, then there was a period where one could package music on f.ex CD's and earn very much; but that period is over.
- Alexander Bard I guess there's some truth to that quote. Record industry bit it's own tail getting too greedy. Spotify and their likes are great for discovering new music, just great to be able to randomly listen (which radio isn't) and suddenly hear something that pulls the carpet under your feet. I can't think of buying mp3's, music in the cyber void or on harddrives. So I don't think CD's - or some other format - will go away just yet. At least I want music to come in a keep case. -------------------- My bands homepage
All time favourites: B. Streisand - Woman in Love, M. Hopkin - Those were the days, L. Richie - Hello |
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Dec 13 2009, 05:55 PM |
So I don't think CD's - or some other format - will go away just yet. At least I want music to come in a keep case. No, Im speaking not about tomorrow... it will of course take some time (due to the stubbornness Im talking bout), but in a couple of years maybe.... I would personally prefer to buy an album the real old-fashion way, in vinyl with those great looking covers - but the kids growing up now are'nt thinking the way we do...l. //Staffay Staffy, all of them (labels) have Youtube, Myspace, Facebook, Twitter etc.. channels Plus they are in magazines, webzines and a lot more. You said "why should they visit an online store to pay for them". Ok then where should people look to buy stuff? First, I also have a Youtube channel, Myspace channel as well as Facebook, people hardly visit my pages either. What Im talking about here is paid advertising on the normal pages the users sees. There is hardly no advertising at all at Facebook for instance (which I visit daily) directed to me at my own page - even that the ads are for sale and they are incredible simple to advertise on. That the labels have their own channels doesn't mean that they are doin any effort to market their artists. The answer on the last one is simple: People dont WANNA pay for music, they wanna to download it for free. So what to do? Let them download some teasers for free and then sell them a high quality product when they are liking your music. And now Im not talking bout some low-end MP3's that sounds like crap..... (I bought some music at Itunes and some of the encodings were TERRIBLE....) Thats why Im saying that the business must adopt a new format to get rid of pirating. //Staffay -------------------- Guitars: Ibanez AM-200, Ibanez GB-10, Fender Stratocaster Classic Player, Warmouth Custom Built, Suhr Classic Strat, Gibson Les Paul Standard 2003, Ibanez steel-string Amps: Fender Hot Rod Deluxe, Marshall JMP 2103, AER 60 Effects: BOSS DD-20, Danelectro Trans. Overdrive, TC-Electronics G-Major, Dunlop Wah-wah, Original SansAmp, BOSS DD-2 Music by Staffy can be found at: Staffay at MySpace |
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Dec 13 2009, 06:18 PM |
Completely agree with Staffay. The music business must finally understand, that telling what is theft and what isnt is just merely a different point of few.
But what can you be sure with is, that when people are put before decision: "For free (and MUCH MORE COMFORTABLE) or for money (and you have to go to shop/wait until you get that thing by postal services/setup your credit card, add stuff to basket, complete order.. its still much more complicated then downloading a torrent for ex.)" 99% people (dont take literary) will choose the easier and cheaper way. Normally, what would happen would be: Business model not working => we have to adapt a new model, be creative and offer them something (movies, tshirts... heck picks would be cool). But the core of capitalism is business, so they used their power, formed organisations, pushed legislative and now its: Business model not working => lets blame them for making copies and for borrowing to their friends! And with time, it went to this extreme - by their own fault, insetad of inventing and thinking about how to solve it, they started prosecuting. Another thing: How much of the record sales go REALLY into the artists pocket? especially on those huge labels. How much of the fee WE (as band) have to pay for every cover song we do on our gigs to the copyright organisations is really put into art? I doubt its even far from close to 50:50. I am not telling its all about the business - its about human nature as well. But first of all, I think that the whole music industry needs all around changes and the illegal downloading is just a tip of an iceberg. Well about them, buying your music... I agree its tough to sell mp3s in this enviroment (you can get anything you want for free...). I have an idea tho on how to solve that - imagine some cloud computing music database, with mp3's, videos etc.. availible for streaming, you pay fixed price for access (just like GMC) and artists are being payed according to number of listens. This idea needs more developing, but I believe it could make both three sides happy (as I believe there is future in cloud computing) This post has been edited by Jakub Luptovec: Dec 13 2009, 06:20 PM -------------------- my youtube account with riffs and ideas: https://www.youtube.com/user/Phoenygzus
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