After reading some of the articles that Janis Ian has written about the recording industry, the idea of them claiming the moral high ground makes me want to hurl. If I thought buying music through them would actually put money in the pockets of any artist other than ones with enough marketing clout to force something resembling a decent share, I would - but I no longer do.
Buying direct from an artist's website (such as lynnemusic.com) or from a company like CDBaby where my understanding is that the artist gets a substantial cut of the price paid by the customer are far superior options, IMHO. I want artists paid for their creativity and hard work; I don't want to feed a bloated bureaucracy whose only justification for existing is to persecute their own customer base.
Now that non-DRMed music is being sold throuh iTMS - at a premium, though admittedly also at a higher bitrate - I think the recording industry needs to stop throwing rocks at a service like AllOfMP3.com/AllTunes.com and realize the value they represent in terms of freedom of codec/bitrate choice and reasonable pricing.
I won't even go into the crap they pull by claiming shared music is "stolen" when they refuse to reissue those out-of-print recordings because they "aren't economically viable."
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Date: 2007-07-26 04:45 am (UTC)After reading some of the articles that Janis Ian has written about the recording industry, the idea of them claiming the moral high ground makes me want to hurl. If I thought buying music through them would actually put money in the pockets of any artist other than ones with enough marketing clout to force something resembling a decent share, I would - but I no longer do.
Buying direct from an artist's website (such as lynnemusic.com) or from a company like CDBaby where my understanding is that the artist gets a substantial cut of the price paid by the customer are far superior options, IMHO. I want artists paid for their creativity and hard work; I don't want to feed a bloated bureaucracy whose only justification for existing is to persecute their own customer base.
Now that non-DRMed music is being sold throuh iTMS - at a premium, though admittedly also at a higher bitrate - I think the recording industry needs to stop throwing rocks at a service like AllOfMP3.com/AllTunes.com and realize the value they represent in terms of freedom of codec/bitrate choice and reasonable pricing.
I won't even go into the crap they pull by claiming shared music is "stolen" when they refuse to reissue those out-of-print recordings because they "aren't economically viable."