tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-796594992645945676.post2367377410826025966..comments2023-09-06T01:52:40.741-07:00Comments on Styrofoam Boots: Radio Free, a thought on music pricing.Leemanshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16903290519278849518noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-796594992645945676.post-11003534396491689842010-06-15T16:27:06.814-07:002010-06-15T16:27:06.814-07:00I had heard a rumor that some record company (Warn...I had heard a rumor that some record company (Warner Brothers maybe?) was going to lower the prices of ALL of their artists to below $10. No special sale, no new release nothing significant. ALL of them. To me, this is a step in the right direction. <br /><br />I've always been of the mindset that music is consistently too expensive for it's own good. I refuse to spend more than $12 on a new release. Typically I spend more time in the used section of my local record stores than anywhere else. I can find a decent balance of quality and quantity if I look long and hard enough.<br /><br />The music industry is run by a bunch of obsolete dinosaurs with archaic thinking; preventing them from seeing the solution that's in front of their faces. The worst part is, the smaller, independent labels that have more quality musicians are getting beat up more than the giants are because they simply can't compete with the pirated market. <br /><br />I won't deny that I'll hunt down albums now and then, but mostly for preview purposes. I'm not going to blow money on an album that I won't necessarily like.Captain Morganhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02465757743960280943noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-796594992645945676.post-4865085158878926482010-05-28T18:16:50.549-07:002010-05-28T18:16:50.549-07:00Ubisoft recently developed something called a &quo...Ubisoft recently developed something called a "cloud-based save system" for their games. I'm not entirely sure on the specifics, but basically what it means is that your computer has to be hooked up to the internet at all times or the game won't run, even if you're playing a single-player game. This is supposed to make pirating their games more difficult, when in fact pirates will just find a way around it and the people who actually buy their games will probably stop, because they feel like they're being punished for something they didn't do. <br /><br />Comic companies are reissuing their older comics in hardcover editions that can have as little value as 5 issues of content for forty dollars, giving new readers who may want to sample this content nowhere to turn but shit quality, black-and-white paperbacks and torrents in order to read anything older than the late '80s.. DC is also going to start making their issues four dollars for twenty two pages of story content, knowing that their minuscule, dwindling fanbase will buy whatever they put out regardless of cost. <br /><br />And the music companies, like you say, are figuring "if they'll pay a dollar, it stands to reason they'll pay ten" and milking what few consumers they have left for all they're worth, leaving the people who don't have incredible amounts of money to spend but still value the physical qualities of music out in the dust. <br /><br />There's a way to combat piracy, and this is not it. In a sense, companies are biting the hand that feeds them and ignoring the one that pokes them in the eye, knowing they can't do anything about it. And as they continue this abusive behavior towards their consumers, they may find themselves going completely blind one day very soon.CJhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13370035874317405138noreply@blogger.com