COPY-PROTECTED CDS<\/a>!\u00c2\u00a0 And, they’re going to justify their success by saying there are no COMPLAINTS!\u00c2\u00a0 This is like saying there’s no problem with steroids in baseball because the testing system showed no violations.\u00c2\u00a0 And this was the case, BECAUSE THEY WEREN’T TESTING FOR STEROIDS!<\/p>\nIt’s not so bad if you buy a copy-protected CD that doesn’t allow you to transfer your songs to your hand-held device if you can just download the same tracks from the P2P service for FREE!!<\/p>\n
And then there’s the limited CD burning, as if THIS will have an effect.\u00c2\u00a0 Since you can download the same tracks from P2P unprotected and burn as many CDs as you WANT!\u00c2\u00a0 Or, buy copy-protected tracks at the iTunes Music Store and burn them, REMOVING the copy protection!<\/p>\n
And, in a brilliant move, Sony BMG is sending advance CDs that YOU CAN’T EVEN PLAY IN YOUR COMPUTER!<\/p>\n
Oh, the company spent dollars to overnight me the new David Gray CD.\u00c2\u00a0 But I HAVEN’T PLAYED IT!<\/p>\n
God, what business are these guys IN???\u00c2\u00a0 The first thing I do when I get a CD is put it in my COMPUTER!!!\u00c2\u00a0 And, I’m not ALONE!\u00c2\u00a0 I listen, and then I rip it if I like it, so I can play it on my iPod.\u00c2\u00a0 Sending this crippled CD is like shipping me a car that you can’t put gas in, it’s just about USELESS!<\/p>\n
But why did they send me the fucking CD to BEGIN WITH?\u00c2\u00a0 Did they do it to ENTICE ME to buy a finished copy???\u00c2\u00a0 No, to hopefully ENJOY and tell YOU about.\u00c2\u00a0 But if I can’t listen to it, this ain’t gonna happen.\u00c2\u00a0 And based on the sales of the previous David Gray album, they should be making it EASY for me to spread the word, since it was a relative STIFF!<\/p>\n
But this is the kind of future Andy Lack and Michael Smellie envision.\u00c2\u00a0 One where THEY own all the music and keep the public AT BAY!\u00c2\u00a0 Delineate what people can do with products they OWN!\u00c2\u00a0 Oh, THIS is going to sit well, in an America with a first sale doctrine, where you can do anything you want with something you purchased.\u00c2\u00a0 I don’t want Andy Lack looking over my shoulder every time I use my David Gray CD, I want HIM out of my life, just like I want the GOVERNMENT out of my life.<\/p>\n
But it’s all done in protection of the OLD MODEL!\u00c2\u00a0 The release date is INVIOLATE!\u00c2\u00a0 Even though seemingly everybody trading "Star Wars" P2P paid to see it in the theatre.\u00c2\u00a0 But NO, record companies don’t want to deal in human nature, they just want to make up the laws of the universe as they go ALONG!<\/p>\n
People don’t want to burn CD collections.\u00c2\u00a0 ESPECIALLY not in the day of iPods, when you can carry THOUSANDS of tracks with you, hell, when you can listen to a Jack-formatted station and hear more different tracks than you can burn to a CD.<\/p>\n
Yes, the Starbucks burning bars are a colossal failure.\u00c2\u00a0 Anybody with a BRAIN could have predicted this.\u00c2\u00a0 But, since CD compilations were big in 2000, the lame labels thought they’d be big in 2004\/5.\u00c2\u00a0 As if you’d even THINK of using that Wintel box you purchased with Windows ME today.\u00c2\u00a0 Oh, there are SOME backward people still using old computers, but do you have to address THESE people instead of US, the main, thinking, technologically-savvy market?<\/p>\n
Oh, I’m not talking about the sale of CDs at Starbucks.\u00c2\u00a0 Like Ray Charles and now Antigone Rising.\u00c2\u00a0 You see people WANT to invest in new acts, in ALBUMS!\u00c2\u00a0 This, the STARBUCKS audience, is the one that still believes.\u00c2\u00a0 It’s just the youngest generation, that never had legitimate mainstream album acts to believe in to begin with that wants only this track and that.\u00c2\u00a0 And they’re not so dumb as to pay for a CD at Starbucks, they’re just going to download.<\/p>\n
It’s time for the record business to comport with reality.\u00c2\u00a0 To stop lying to us to protect their old model and their salaries.\u00c2\u00a0 The music market has changed FOREVER!\u00c2\u00a0 People want A LOT of music at a LOW price.\u00c2\u00a0 You can’t achieve this with CDs.\u00c2\u00a0 The costs are high, the discs only hold a few tracks.<\/p>\n
If you don’t know ALL of the above, please QUIT!<\/p>\n
\nStrong Lattes, Sour Notes at Starbucks<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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