Posted by AnthonyR on 11/04/05 18:56

"AnthonyR" <nomail@nospam.com> wrote in message
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> "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
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> 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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Also all these years that music was freely available from the radio, why
haven't music companies been freaking out about people recording the music
off the radio rather than running out and buying the cd's? Did they not fear
people recording their own copies rather than buying cd's?
NO, you know why?
Mainly because they knew they needed the exposure no. 1 to sell any music at
all, and also people are lazy in general.
Why sit there recording music off a radio and making tapes and cd's when you
can just pay and get one ready made?
So it's been working well so far.

Also CD's offer much better quality than the fm transmission range can, so
those who wanted it to have also wanted a better quality version to have.
The same can be said now with mp3's, they aren't as good as the uncompressed
CD versions so people will still want better quality (if they can afford to
by music at all). So sales should still be good from that aspect.

But i suspect because people aren't using cd players as much any more, in
general, and it now has become easier to download and compile all your music
on an ipod type device, now because the laziness factor has shifted, quality
becomes less important and convenience will cause cd sales to drop. I
personally only buy music online now at iTunes cause I hate having to
transfer then to my iPod (again laziness factor) and have to store all those
cd's somewhere. i guess i could start passing them around like a used book
but that would violate the law since I copied the music so I have to just
store them. It's not convenient buying CD's anymore and that's why sales are
going down and will continue to go down, they need to realize this, and find
solutions. It's not cause people want to steal, it's cause people want
convenience and they need to legally give that to them if they want to
continue to get paid well.

AnthonyR.

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