This is TicketMaster’s idea of cool?\u00c2\u00a0 Overcharge me for the ticket (maybe not their fault, we can blame that one on the greedy act\/manager\/agent), then hit me with all kinds of bogus fees and then give me ONE FREE SONG?\u00c2\u00a0 Whoop-de-doo!<\/p>\n
Boy has TM got an image issue.\u00c2\u00a0 The public hates them.\u00c2\u00a0 If they wanted to give back…\u00c2\u00a0 How about if you buy the fucking ticket, which is expensive no matter WHAT the beginning price ($15 ticket?\u00c2\u00a0 $15 in FEES!) you get the WHOLE DAMN ALBUM!<\/p>\n
Used to be the tour was an advertisement for the album, now the album is an advertisement for the tour.\u00c2\u00a0 But many people don’t have the fucking record and have no intention of ever buying it, especially with heritage acts.\u00c2\u00a0 God, the Stones’ "Bigger Bang" was their best-reviewed album in twenty five years, but it STILL didn’t sell.\u00c2\u00a0 Why do you need to own it?\u00c2\u00a0 But if people are already agreeing to spend in excess of $100 to see these geriatrics, they MIGHT check out new music by the band.\u00c2\u00a0 Hell, why make an album if no one HEARS IT!<\/p>\n
Which is why most of the heritage acts HAVE STOPPED making records.\u00c2\u00a0 Sure, most have nothing to say, but on the chance they do, why not give the music to those who express interest!<\/p>\n
But NO, we’re gonna give you one track of your choice, and then feed you a fucking sampler album.\u00c2\u00a0 And you know you can’t get one without the other.\u00c2\u00a0 No, the ten or twenty bullshit tracks that you don’t ever want to listen to will be cluttering up your hard drive.\u00c2\u00a0 And most people are too stupid to realize when you delete them from your iTunes Library THEY REMAIN ON YOUR HARD DRIVE!\u00c2\u00a0 Shit, Walter Mossberg beats up the computer companies for adding craplets <\/p>\n
\nUsing Even New PCs Is Ruined by a Tangle of Trial Programs, Ads<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
and nobody at TM reads the fucking business paper of record and thinks they’re doing their fans some fucking good!<\/p>\n
This is not 1973, music is not a scarce resource.\u00c2\u00a0 You can steal it online, you can hard drive swap, you can listen to every act known to man on MySpace and the big breakthrough is you’re going to feed us label priorities that we’re NOT FUCKING INTERESTED IN?<\/p>\n
These pricks should read Seth Godin’s "Permission Marketing"<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 Wherein he delineates how the game has changed.\u00c2\u00a0 You have to ASK the customer, and only give him what he wants.\u00c2\u00a0 It’s a changed era.\u00c2\u00a0 Seth is getting rich spreading his wisdom, but the fucks in the music business are all losing their jobs.\u00c2\u00a0 WHAT’S WRONG WITH THIS MOVIE!<\/p>\n
Apple isn’t blame free, but we know their agenda.\u00c2\u00a0 Just get everybody hooked on iTunes, make exclusive deals with everybody in the music business, and nobody can compete.\u00c2\u00a0 And they’ll emerge almost blame free in the eyes of the public, who’ll hate the dreaded TICKETMASTER once again.<\/p>\n
God are things fucked up.\u00c2\u00a0 Did you read that inane insane bullshit about Florida and the used CDs? <\/p>\n
\nRecord shops: Used CDs? Ihre papieren, bitte!<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
Yup, that’s the cancer on our industry, the sale of used CDs.\u00c2\u00a0 No, it’s keeping indie retailers in BUSINESS!\u00c2\u00a0 Stop the sale of USED CDs and the sale of NEW CDs will fall even further.\u00c2\u00a0 Yup, with nowhere to BUY the music, you sell LESS!<\/p>\n