[BC] Record Co's about to kill their best friend?

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they could just make it HD and all will be well... its going to fix all the similar problems with radio, why not the recording industry too? ;)

Seriously, What's killing the 'industry'?  Digital is.  Not HD.  Computers, easy access to cheap recording, pressing, sharing and distribution of music you self-produce.  When there used to be one route for a band to reach the world, a major or at least indie label, there are now hundreds of options.  From Myspace pages to self-recorded and produced music, it's all gotten easier for better bands to reach audiences without the 'industry' helping them.  And the 'industry' has gotten more reliant on releasing things like Paris Hilton CDs (that act alone should condemn them all to the ninth plane of Hell).  

I have a couple of kids working for the station now that are very talented, play multiple instruments and do their own recordings in ProTools and Cubase.  They're about to release their own CD of surf music.  They've done their own recording, production, mastering, artwork, etc... and they'll probably sell some of them.  Will they go titanium on the charts?  Nope.  But, they will serve a niche being ignored by the 'industry' and eat into it's mainstream sales a teeny bit more.  Multiply that by millions of kids who have talent and access to cheap recording systems, massive internet distribution options and you can see where the RIAA would be nervous.

Radio is screwing up by not throwing every lawyer and lobbyist on the NAB's payroll at this issue to protect its paying members...  The RIAA is just trying to salvage money from somewhere.  A few places 'get it' and will do away with DRM and other things in favor of greater diversity of sales, most don't and will slowly sink into a tar pit filled with the bones of N'Sync and Brittany Spears...

John

>>> "Douglas B. Pritchett" <wbzq1300 at verizon.net> 3/31/2007 12:10 PM >>>
Rather than blame webcasters, college students and iPods......the record 
industry might want to look at the crap they turn out as product. Both 
content-wise and tech-wise. If the product is junk, the public may not 
see the value and won't pay for it......... but won't have any qualms 
about "stealing" it.

-- 
Douglas B. Pritchett
Fort Wayne, IN (really, don't laugh)
wbzq1300 at verizon.net 



Rich Wood wrote:

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> Those poor, poor, poor record companies.


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