and another thing

[deathboy]

OH, PEOPLE JUST STEAL MUSIC, THEY'RE SUCH BASTARDS, WOES!

[as Irish ISPs fold to the will of people with big lawyers... cunts...]

Well, I just went to buy M.I.A.'s "Kala", as it reminds me of my bird, and ooh, lookie...

£4.98 for the CD. £6.99 for the mp3s.

MAYBE IT SHOULD COST LESS TO BUY THE MP3s OF A FUCKING ALBUM THAN TO BUY THE FUCKING PHYSICAL PRODUCT.

A single example, I know, but this happens all the fucking time. So! Yet again, I'll steal the mp3s so I can listen now, and order the CD to support the artist.

Same goes for fucking ebooks, that tend to be 90% of the price of the paper version, despite there being no fucking physical product to sit on your bookshelf.

YOU ARE DOING IT WRONG.

fucking morons.

[edit]: In fact, fuck y'all, I'll just listen to it on Spotify.

Comments

[doctor-bob.livejournal.com]

Yeah... it always pissed me off that they had that mark up. It's not like they shifted much of the extra cash on to the artists!

What you say's pretty much the case with the majors, and that's a big contributor to the collapse of the industry.

[the_axel]

Quite the opposite - most standard contracts still assume 10% of the CD's break in transit because shellac is so brittle.

What with CD's not being made of shellac you'd have thought that deduction would have been eliminated so the artist would make a few extra pennies...

[doctor-bob.livejournal.com]

Well, the article says that 'some record companies still insist' rather than 'most standard contracts'. Not to say it doesn't go on, but I've never personally seen that clause on a contract. Maybe it's something more with the majors than indie labels.

[the_axel]

That's not the only place I've read about it, just the first one Google served up.

I gather it's pretty much the norm with American majors, who are a lot more polished at being complete and utter bastards than their British equivalents/subsidiaries/partners in crime.

I'd be shocked if indie labels included it, seeing as none of them existed when records were made out of shellac.

[doctor-bob.livejournal.com]

Fair enough, I hadn't heard about it going on before now. Doesn't make me think any less of them, it just fits into the picture I already have :-/
I can also see them being backwards enough to leave it in there for the sake of it...

Good point on indies not being around at the time, I didn't think of that!

[reddragdiva]

Dude. The contracts assume 10% of the MP3s break in transit 'cos the shellac's so fragile.