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I certainly would not advocate that record companies cease to exist. However, the majors need to shift their priorities. If they worked towards developing quality acts rather than marketting popular pap, I guarantee they'd have more sales. The small label model is perhaps the best. Jodee, I have...

$30 for the Pearl Jam double discs is heavily gouging the consumer. Buy from Pearl Jam's website or a US online site, and you'll pay less.

I do wish artists had more power. I look at Pearl Jam, who provide every concert of their last tour on double disc for around $10. That's an excellent idea at an excellent value. It makes bootlegs of the same shows obsolete in terms of both cost and quality. I wish some of my favored artists...

A CD recording Kiosk might be a good thing, but this was tried with cassette tapes about 10 years ago. Of course you had to order your tape, and it took a few weeks to get it, but the basis of the idea is the same. It failed, perhaps because the selection was secondary songs or songs that had...

That was their biggest fear with Napster - not just the idea that music could be taken free, but that people would discover that a 13 track CD has 12 sucky tracks and one single BEFORE buying it, rather than after. Having had a CD player in my car since 1996, I don't ever listen to pop radio...

If I'm trying to save money and a CD comes out that I want on the same day as a DVD I want, 9 times out of 10 I'll buy the DVD. More entertainment value for the money. I buy most of my CDs through BMG when I get around to it. A few CDs will get picked up at full retail (that is, Best Buy...