[Ti] Music is timele$$

[Ric Perrott]

On Wednesday, May 7, 2003, at 01:32  PM, Hayes-Holgate, Shaun wrote:

>
>  No matter how you slice it the music industry is
>  burning us more than we're burning their music.
>  Music is timeless and will be endlessly resold
>  with the newest technology available.That means in
>  an average 80 year lifespan someone might have to
>  buy the same music what? 10..15 times or more.
>  If you bought the Beatles Sgt.pepper album on
>  vinyl in '67,and then on 8 track in '77,and then
>  on cassette in '87,and then on CD in '97,and then
>  from Apple now,and then who knows how many times
>  into the future before it becomes public domain...
>   Well I'd say the music industry has enough cash
>  from you and future generations to start giving it
>  away cheap.Maybe pricing should reflect the vintage
>  status of the music. 99 cents for the newest Eminem track
>  and I don't know...20 cents for a beatles track?

Funny, but I've never had someone hold a gun to my head and "force" me 
to buy music.

You don't *have* to buy anything. If you perceive value in the new 
offering, then you purchase it, if not, you don't and you stick with 
whatever you had before.

I have 7 different versions of "Dark Side of the Moon." Was I *forced* 
to buy anyone of them? Nope, I did so out of my own free will and 
desire to get a better product than the one I had.

Some people don't seem to grasp that music isn't a right. If you like 
it, you buy it, if you don't you don't, very simple. Nobody *owes* you 
a blessed thing.

 >> Well I'd say the music industry has enough cash<<

And people who have less than you think that YOU have enough cash so 
why not start giving some away? Perhaps you can work 10 hours a week 
for free because you're so well off, what do you think?

The ludicrous rationalizations here are mind boggling.

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Ric Perrott
Writer, Poet, Pot-Stirrer