{"id":1014,"date":"2007-11-16T08:59:58","date_gmt":"2007-11-16T16:59:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lefsetz.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/archives\/2007\/11\/16\/mick-jagger-vs-jay-z\/"},"modified":"2007-11-16T08:59:58","modified_gmt":"2007-11-16T16:59:58","slug":"mick-jagger-vs-jay-z","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lefsetz.com\/wordpress\/2007\/11\/16\/mick-jagger-vs-jay-z\/","title":{"rendered":"Mick Jagger vs. Jay-Z"},"content":{"rendered":"
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"I don’t know anyone who listens to CDs in order anymore."<\/p>\n

Mick Jagger<\/p>\n

"Wall Street Journal" – Thursday, November 15, 2007<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

What I find funny is fans.<\/p>\n

On one hand, thank god Radiohead and Jay-Z have them, that’s what keeps them in business. But, if you cross their favorite, if you say anything negative about the act they adore, they inundate you with e-mail excoriating you for your ignorance.<\/p>\n

Jay-Z left money on the table. If people didn’t want files instead of CDs, we wouldn’t be in this pickle to begin with. But the reason Jay-Z didn’t sell his music on iTunes is because Universal, his parent company, is at war with Apple. Unfortunately, it’s Jay-Z’s who’s taking the hit.<\/p>\n

Why didn’t he act like Tom Petty back in the seventies, refusing to be the first on MCA to sell his record for a buck more? Willing to go into bankruptcy to avoid this fate?<\/p>\n

As head of a label, you’d think Jay-Z would take the long view. See that buying complete albums is a thing of the past. Figure out how to make it in the new world. I mean when even Edgar Bronfman, Jr. wakes up to the new reality, it makes Jay-Z look like he’s living back in the nineties.<\/p>\n

So you love albums. More power to you. I don’t want to tell you how to listen to your music.<\/p>\n

But those days are through. The future is a steady stream of product. The key is to keep your fan base happy, keep the relationship up, so you can sell a steady stream of…not only music, but concert tickets and merch. Who’d want to marry a person who you only dated once every three years? Even if the date was a week long. Even a month!<\/p>\n

There were no albums before 33 1\/3 RPM records. The medium begat the art form. New art forms are going to emerge as a result of the Internet era. Why be so close-minded. Maybe Jay-Z can release his next album as a serial! With a new track every week. Driving us to iTunes, where we might buy even more IDJ music.<\/p>\n

And, there’s no abolition on buying complete albums at iTunes. Make something good enough, and people will pop for it.<\/p>\n

But to leave them out of the loop, to make them buy it your way or the highway. Shit, what did that hamburger chain say? Have it your way?<\/p>\n

If only Jay-Z and the record labels paid attention…<\/p>\n

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