Here, here!!
peace,
R. Scott
framboise@mindspring.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dirk van den Heuvel" <dirkv@groovedis.com>
To: "Elson Trinidad" <elson@westworld.com>; "B. Allison" <wuchip@yahoo.com>;
"Jazz Acid" <acid-jazz@ucsd.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, April 26, 2000 11:20 AM
Subject: RE: Nappies
> Not to sound too bitchy, but no one's told me or my stores that there's no
> "singles" market anymore. We sell lots of singles and rely on them to a
> great extent to stay in business. The casualness with which people ask for
> free music in the form of MP3s or copied CDRs really frightens me. Records
> that are unavailable as in out of print is one thing, but records that are
> just a little hard to find... That seems a bit much. I think MP3s and Real
> Audio streams are INCREDIBLY useful tools to get people to sample and try
> out music, but not to replace buying music. Give people a taste of the
song
> (or the record) not the whole damn thing. I think labels should put more
2-3
> minute samples of tracks out there, but whole songs? I think not.
>
> Rest assured the singles market is not dead, it's just underground and
under
> siege. Any one who loves underground music should encourage every one they
> know to go out and BUY music. We all need people to buy music or the
> musicians/labels making the music won't be able to keep making it. And the
> small labels get hit the hardest as they have the smallest sales to begin
> with.
>
> Dirk van den Heuvel (dirkv@groovedis.com)
> Groove Distribution
> http://www.groovedis.com
> Your Guide To The Underground
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Elson Trinidad [mailto:elson@westworld.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, April 25, 2000 9:23 PM
> To: B. Allison; Jazz Acid
> Subject: Re: Nappies
>
>
> At 06:52 PM 4/25/00 -0700, B. Allison wrote:
> > Personally, I just started using Napster about two
> >weeks ago. But I still buy an incredible amount of
> >music. I think Napster just lets me find stuff I could
> >never get my hands on without it.
>
> Same here. There is no real "singles" market anymore. 45s are no longer
> made, CD singles are too expensive and cassette singles are (were?) a
joke.
> So I treat MP3s like singles. If I get a couple MP3s from a certain artist
> and I happen to like them, I'll buy the album. If the labels were smart
> they'd give away or sell MP3 "singles" of a song and the amount donwloaded
> will gauge its success.
>
> I'm all for distributing and collecting MP3s, and I love how some
> import/rare stuff can be found via Napster (hey, if the labels can't sell
> them here in the first place, they haven't lost a cent). But I draw the
> line at ripping entire CDs. If you want to make a few songs available, go
> on ahead, but I don't think ripping or downloading an entire CD is cool.
>
> Elson
>
>
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>
>
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