begin quoting Gabriel Sechan as of Mon, Jan 16, 2006 at 01:21:43PM -0600: > >From: Stewart Stremler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >I'm not quite to the point of giving up on used CDs... I tend to like > >whole albums, not single songs. (Thus, thematically consistent albums > >tend to be my favorites...) > > Most sites, including allofmp3 and itunes allow you to dl whole albums.
Yes, but used CDs are typically cheaper per album (on iTunes), plus I like the idea of having high-quality downsampled to something I choose... [snip] > My problem with iTunes is 3 fold. > > 1)DRMed up the wazoo. I refuse to pay for DRMed files Indeed. That's one of the reasons I haven't gone with iTunes yet. I'm waiting for the DRM war to settle out. (My personal opinion is that DRM ought to negate copyright... you get _one_ protection mechanism, just like how you can't copyright *and* patent the same thing.) > 2)Still too expensive. You can't sample new artists for a buck a song, an > album is still $10. I've never been one to cold-sample an artist anyway. I wait for either (a) hearing a song I like by the artist on the radio (or in person) and buying an album with that song, (b) getting a new artist's work as a gift, or (c) having a friend recommend an artist [typically by loaning an album to me]. > 3)For every penny the artist gets, the label still gets 65 or 70. > Literally. I refuse to support those greedy parasites. How much does an artist get from allofmp3.com? And what would a reasonable cut be for the middlemen? Does this apply to other areas of life? (For each $1 in the grocery store, what portion of that makes it back to the farmer?) > What I'd love to see is something like Napster/Rhapsody/Yahoo Music with no > DRM on the files- just a flat monthly fee to download whatever I want, and > I keep it (none of this renting bullshit). I'd happily pay as much as I do > for cable tv for such a service. That's an economic model that makes no sense. You might as well demand that all music be free to everyone all the time. All you're doing is assuming the role of parasite to replace/join the RIAA and friends... -- _ |\_ \| -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
