On 17/03/2009 14:08, JT Stewart wrote:
If it's recorded then there is a medium, and vinyl is hardly an
out-of-reach medium. So there is an available audience. But to humor
your question, YES. Artists do not do what they do for the sake of the
audience. Most of them anyway. Alienating the audience is not a
concern. If the artists stops making their art in a way that is
fulfilling for them...what happens? Don't you think that's pretty
important?
Absolutely it is, but I'm struggling to understand what's unfulfilling
about providing music in an additional format - especially if there's
less risk than there is through the other mediums already out there. Is
it that the package itself is 100% essential? Is it a desire to enforce
audiophilia by suppressing compressed formats? Is it that the
administrative overhead of distributing mp3s is so high? Re: this last
point JT, I'm very surprised by this - can you elaborate at all? Or is
it some combination of all of this? I'm not trying to say any of these
reasons are invalid I just don't understand why adding a format would
somehow ruin the whole endeavour for somone unless the core impulse is
to force everyone else to share their values about music formats.
And if alienating an audience is not a concern then why mass produce
something at all?
Playing devil's advocate to some extent, but part of me really doesn't
geddit.
Tristan
