RE: [microsound] napster was a promotional service

[David Fodel <DFodel@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

sums up my feelings exactly.

at CommTom (http://www.commtom.com) we are giving away the music and asking
folks to subscribe to the packaging. So you can burn your own copies in
whatever order you want with whichever tracks you please and if you
subscribe you get a piece of hand printed art to store your CD-R in...
something material you can hold in your hands, that one can fetishize (as it
is produced in very limited runs...)

we're just experimenting.

David Fodel
Publishing Systems Manager
Wild Oats Markets
3375 Mitchell Lane
Boulder, CO 80301
Direct: 720-562-4831
Fax: 303-938-8474


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> From: 	pnyboer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Reply To: 	microsound
> Sent: 	Monday, March 4, 2002 12:19 PM
> To: 	microsound
> Subject: 	[microsound] napster was a promotional service
> 
> napster as promotional...
> the "mp3 as death to music industry" thesis has been getting a lot of
> press
> recently, with all those grammy goings ons....I breifly saw a panel of
> "artists" on that lousy show "Politically Incorrect," and I was amused at
> how totally lost they were, how totally resistant to change these
> supposedly progressive people are.  These were soul and rap artists,
> mostly, one was jah love i think.  They tried the line "well, people don't
> have access to this technology, so it's not as bad as they say," when,
> reading between the lines, it seemed they were saying that black people
> don't have have cd-burners, so, as black artists, they are not as
> threatened.  Funny, I was in a bar in Oakland recently, and a dude was
> selling burned copies of various popular hiphop and soul albums.  Who
> needs
> access?  All I needed was a beer and place to watch some hoops.   I didn't
> need a cd-burner :)
> The problem for the industry is that there is a very effecient mechanism
> for people to separate what is disposable, and what is worth material and
> financial effort.  The "artists" need to produce something that is
> materially viable.  It is clear that people will spend a lot of money for
> things that they can connect with materially.  The industry's only idea so
> far has been incredibly failed attempts at keeping things as they are.
> What's really sickening about it, is that their solutions all seem to
> engage law and police and enforcment rather than anything creative,
> interesting, or artistic.
> 
> Pete.
> 
> 
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