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Topic: RIAA wonders why people hates them
Maradon!
posted 04-16-2003 01:25:30 AM
Or you could just...not put so many songs on a CD
Old_Hickory
Pancake
posted 04-16-2003 01:34:21 AM
I guess that exactly their point Maradon. Less songs on a CD. Less songs having to be produced per album would be less pressure for artists/songwriters to put out. This might improve the quality of the music as a whole, because so much trash wouldn't be produced. I guess it's easier to write 8-10 good songs..then worry about 12-15 per album. Fewer songs for the album would require less money to various parties, and should in effect brong the prices of CD's down. So I guess the equation would go: Less songs = higher quality - prices would produce higer sales, and less piracy.
Sean
posted 04-16-2003 01:36:36 AM
Let's bring back 8-Tracks.
A Kansas City Shuffle is when everybody looks right, you go left.

It's not something people hear about.

Ja'Deth Issar Ka'bael
I posted in a title changing thread.
posted 04-16-2003 05:36:58 AM
Hell they make videos for groups that haven't cut albums yet. For big name acts they should include wmv, mpeg or whatever copies of the songs' videos on the CD's. A while back I got a country CD (yeah shut up) that was a greatest hits album. 14 songs, plus if you stuck it in the computer you could watch two interviews with the artist and one video of one of the songs being performed in concert. This was like two or three years ago. They could easily do something better now. Make CD space count. Make it a multimedia event.

[ 04-16-2003: Message edited by: Ja'Deth Issar Ka'bael ]

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Pancake
posted 04-16-2003 06:43:40 AM
Sadly the RIAA wil not die to public backlash anytime soon, there's enough sheep who don't even go and vote (takes one afternoon at the most), how do you expect any significant portion of the population to do something that might slightly reduce their immediate comfort (not buying music for years)?
Life... is like a box of chocolates. A cheap, thoughtless, perfunctory gift that nobody ever asks for. Unreturnable, because all you get back is another box of chocolates. You're stuck with this undefinable whipped-mint crap that you mindlessly wolf down when there's nothing else left to eat. Sure, once in a while, there's a peanut butter cup, or an English toffee. But they're gone too fast, the taste is fleeting. So you end up with nothing but broken bits, filled with hardened jelly and teeth-crunching nuts, and if you're desperate enough to eat those, all you've got left is a... is an empty box... filled with useless, brown paper wrappers.
Mog
not really a mmembe rof tis boered
posted 04-16-2003 07:50:40 AM
quote:
We were all impressed when Ja'Deth Issar Ka'bael wrote:
Hell they make videos for groups that haven't cut albums yet. For big name acts they should include wmv, mpeg or whatever copies of the songs' videos on the CD's. A while back I got a country CD (yeah shut up) that was a greatest hits album. 14 songs, plus if you stuck it in the computer you could watch two interviews with the artist and one video of one of the songs being performed in concert. This was like two or three years ago. They could easily do something better now. Make CD space count. Make it a multimedia event.

Disturbed's believe, System of a downs toxicity (scond disc) and Steal this album (disc wiht musuic on it), aswell as AFI's sing the sarrow all have simialer features


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Kegwen
Sonyfag
posted 04-16-2003 09:07:53 AM
quote:
Mog spewed forth this undeniable truth:
Disturbed's believe, System of a downs toxicity (scond disc) and Steal this album (disc wiht musuic on it), aswell as AFI's sing the sarrow all have simialer features

Believe is also 49 minutes long.

Delphi Aegis
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posted 04-16-2003 01:24:52 PM
I have only ever bought three CDs.

Linkin Park's Hybrid Theory
One Gorillaz album (Doesn't have a name?)
Daft Punk's Discovery.

I can't remember why I bought Hybrid Theory, but it was a good choice when I was all angsty and shit. I hardly listen to it now.

Gorillaz was okay for the first few songs (You know, the ones they aired on CTN) but I didn't particularly like it after that (Even with the enhanced CD features.)

And Discovery was exactly the same. First four tracks were stellar (I have the .swf's of the videos they made on CTN.com for those tracks) but the rest is crap compared to it.

Sense a pattern?

I only bought a CD because I had heard the music first, then was disgusted at the rest of the crap they filled the CD with.

Lawst Informant has a good point.

Mog
not really a mmembe rof tis boered
posted 04-16-2003 02:00:01 PM
quote:
Drysart wrote this then went back to looking for porn:
Where else you planning on getting music legally from? Even most so-called "indie" labels are members of the RIAA.
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Not surewether or not their part of RIAA but most "inddie" labels i know of sell cds for 10 dollas, including packaeing, cd art, and book just as good(go kart records sampler only 5 dollers and have possibly the nicest pckageing ive ever seen), if not better then the major record labels, with cd's just aslog, though ocasionaly shroter/longer, and event hoguh to say all indee music is great and all ajor label musci susk would be jsutt plain stupid, indee labels do seem to have a good percentage of god groups


i hve n idea why i posted this now instead of thre daqys ago, but i is bored nwo, so meh


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