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Posted by AnthonyR on 11/04/05 18:42
"Steve Guidry" <steveguidry@earthlink.net> wrote in message
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> It's not free at all. Advertisers pay dearly for the music you hear. And
> if they didn't, you'd be paying for it directly.
>
> Steve
>
well yes Steve,
True advertisers pay dearly for the music we hear for free, but that in turn
causes us to like the music and drives up demand, advertisers pay for us to
hopefully hear their commercials they stick inbetween the music we are
listening to for free.
No matter how we slice and dice it, without the free (to us) music exposure
we would not be buying the cd's at all!
We wouldn't even like the new songs unless they forced them on us till we
got to like them.
So my original point doesn't change, as we shift from a society who listens
to radio less and less, I use my iTunes about 90% now and radio maybe 10% if
even that, unless I get exposed to new music some other way, I will have no
desire (no demand) to buy it or even know about it and tell friends about
it.
That will hurt music and cd sales much more in general than illegal
downloading IMHO.
I guess that is why so many of these online music services are pushing for a
subscription based (radio model) type scheme nowadays.
AnthonyR.
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