willyhoops;200958 Wrote: > Thats a nice story and its keeping sales alive at the moment. But when > the consumer looses all interest in physical CDs, why would he download > a free lossless CD and then like it and then buy exactly the same thing > again.
Well as I already had the download, there was actually little point in buying the CD other than to show my support by buying it - I haven't bothered to rip it again as I'm sure I couldn't do a better job and after reading the liner the CD is now in storage. No suggestion I wouldn't do the same with downloads. I don't care about statistics saying sales are down - stats can be made to tell any story they want. When someone can give me a full analysis of how income has changed vs the various products that can be bought with said income, cross-referenced with the size of the record companies catalogue and mapped against *accurate* downloading figures then I won't believe what the stats tell me. I know I don't have the money to buy *all* the games I want, and see *all* the movies I want, and buy *all* the CDs I want - something has to give somewhere. It's probably not too great a leap of faith to assume some of the money that used to be spent on music now disappears on video games, or DVDs. The companies need to stop bleating and blaming illicit downloading for their own ineptitude. Get some quality artists on book and support them, fan loyalty would go a long way to increasing revenue for them. Most young people I know only buy 'Now That's What I Call Music 199' compilation albums as they're only interested, generally, in 1 track by any particular artist. Most of them are here today, gone tomorrow, manufactured pap - it's a stretch to call them artists (well, maybe p155 artists!!). -- Rangdo GRONDA GRONDA SB 2 [Stereovox XV2] > Benchmark DAC1 [NVA Soundpipe] > Cyrus Pre Xvs [NVA Soundpipe] > Cyrus X-Power [Chord Rumour 4] > MA GR20 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Rangdo's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5238 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=34928 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
