good points and it's probably too difficult to give an accurate evaluation
at this point. i've purchased maybe 10 cds since i started djing. and
probably have spent thousands on vinyl. better selection of what i like is
released on vinyl and obviously the medium of choice for djing.
maybe dj friends will group together and purchase vinyl or cds and share
their tracks with each other to use with finalscratch. like discussed many
times though many djs seem to like to keep many of their gems to themselves
and won't even tell other people the name of the producer, the track or the
label.
another point (sort of) is i've never been able to find 1/10 of all of the
music i'd like to dj on napster or ftp's. will it change with finalscratch?
who knows. people may start archiving records more and make their vinyl
collection available digitally. i'm all for trading tracks. how much music
should one person buy? how much can 1 person afford? a lot of people spend a
grand a month and half of it sits and collects dust. scary to the wallet and
maybe more addicting than smoking or cocaine.
From: "Jayson B." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [313] ANyone know about Finalscratch (maybe OT)
Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2001 16:32:42 +0000
finalscratch may force independant label's and artist to think, work, or
promote differently. who knows what kind of products can be >created to
compliment or expand finalscratch too. should be an exciting >time for
djs.
many of the points you made were total valid, and i agree on them.
HOWEVER,
you forgot something very important: we're talking about an issue here
that
even the big Records label, with their virtually unlimited cashflow, have
been unable to nic; digital distribution. Now, mp3's certainly didn't
spell
the doom of big record labels yet (hell, i think they profited off of suing
everyone). But it did take a chunk of change out of their profit. At that
point in time, i could care less: Big labels didn't play with the boys that
i like (except for the grand pubahs, but i can care less about them). Big
record labels need to go away, but little ones need to stay. And THAT'S why
i fear this for the little records labels: if a small portion of their
profit margin goes, they could easily sink under. Yeah, vinyl sales aren't
going to tube out, but they will go down quite a bit, at least at first.
and
considering how much it costs to put out vinyl, you're going to see a lot
less vinyl out there. You're going to see vinyl from people who are able
to
put out a couple hundred copies MAYBE at a time, and will only be able to
distribute that locally. I'm very excited and horrified to see what is
going to happen to music as a whole in the next 5 years.
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