Too Little, Too Late
posted March 18, 2010, 5:31 pm | Log In To Post Comments | 
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Ever wonder what kind of geniuses run record companies? The latest tidbit is that Universal Music Group is pushing to sell CD's at $10 a pop. The question I ask is, what the f*** took them so bloody long? This would have helped them 5 years ago, but I think that for most people, they have moved on to digital downloads.
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The Wonders of DRM'd Music
posted July 25, 2008, 12:05 pm | Log In To Post Comments | view comments (1)
Those of you who have purchased music via Yahoo!'s Music Unlimited (ironic name) subscription service, as of October 1 you will no longer be able to play your tunes. Full gory details here. Enough said.
European Music Industry Cluster Fuck
posted July 3, 2008, 2:36 pm | Log In To Post Comments | view comments (0)
Tags: Music Industry, Globalization, eCommerce, iTunes
Oy, this is complicated.
One more thing that the age of the global internet has exposed is the underbelly of the old music industry in the European Union. A new proposal has revealed the industry as a creaky, old patchwork of different states controlling the licensing rights to music in their territories.
So, why are some musicians opposing the legislation? You wou
Kid Rock Spouts Off
posted June 20, 2008, 12:00 pm | Log In To Post Comments | view comments (3)
Tags: Kid Rock, Music Industry, Stupid Musicians, Apple iTunes, Consumer Society, Gas Sucking SUVs
So, Kid Rock (aka Robert J. Ritchie) advocates stealing his music.
He also says that iTunes and all the other online music stores are a new version of the old music industry where everyone gets a bigger cut than the artists themselves. Apparently, Robert doesn't understand the online model that Apple follows whereby the music company takes the lion's share of the pie and Apple is lef
Cover Songs
posted June 13, 2008, 3:52 pm | Log In To Post Comments | view comments (4)
Tags: Remakes, Covers
Just heard the Ataris cover of Don Henley's "The Boys of Summer." I think that I prefer the original.
This isn't always the case. There are remakes that I have preferred over the originals. Briefly, some of them are:
Johnny Cash's cover of Depeche Mode's "Personal Jesus"
Another Johnny Cash cover that I prefer is (of Trent Reznor's) "Hurt"
Alien Ant Farm's cover of Wacko Jacko's "Smooth Criminal"
The Corrs cover of Fleetwoo
Love Songs
posted February 14, 2008, 3:46 pm | Log In To Post Comments | view comments (1)
Tags: Sappy Lovesongs
In keeping with Valentines Day:
Sets a nice Mood
John Lennon - Woman (1980)
Marvin Gaye - Sexual Healing (1982?)
John Lee Hooker - I'm In The Mood (1951)
Sister Sledge - Thinking Of You (1984)
ABC - All of My Heart (1982)
Tina Turner - What's Love Got to Do With It (1984)
The Cure - Love Cats (1983)
Nina Simone - My Baby Just Cares for Me (1987)
The Smiths - There Is A Light That Never Goes Out (1986)
Bend Over and Take It Like a Man
posted July 25, 2007, 2:26 pm | Log In To Post Comments | view comments (1)
Tags: Copyright Board of Canada, Copyright, RIAA, Pirating Hordes, Canadian Copyright Laws
So, since we're all pirating criminals here in Canada, the Copyright Board of Canada (along with a little push from the American RIAA probably) has set a new guideline for a digital media tax that would help those poor, long suffering labels take care of their musicians.
CD-R, $0.29
Audio Cassette - 40 minutes or more, $0.29
Memory stick
less than 1Gb, $2.00
The music industry is dying
posted July 13, 2007, 11:20 am | Log In To Post Comments | view comments (2)
Tags: Music Industry, Record Labels, Napster, Clueless
About bloody time. Money quotes:"...So who killed the record industry as we knew it? "The record companies have created this situation themselves," says Simon Wright, CEO of Virgin Entertainment Group, which operates Virgin Megastores..."<br>
"They left billions and billions of dollars on the table by suing Napster -- that was the moment that the labels killed themselves," says Jeff Kwatinetz, CEO of management company the Firm. "The record busin
Marketing Fluff
posted April 3, 2007, 5:22 pm | Log In To Post Comments | view comments (1)
Tags: Hair Bands, 70's AM Radio, New Wave, New Romantic, Synth Pop
Sitting here at work with my "AM Hits of the 70's" playlist blaring through my headphones I realised something. We classify others by seemingly stupid categories like how they look, the clothes they wear, the cars they drive, the beer they drink, the computers they use, the god they worship. Now by the songs on their freaking iTunes playlists? I'll let you in on a little secret: I really don't care if you find my love of 70's music just a little sad.
