John Berggren
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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 been out for 5 years or more, nothing "first rate". I'm sure the immediacy factor was also there.
I used to buy CDs left and right. I'd buy them the first week they were out based on favoring a band, or enjoying a video on MTV (generally 120 minutes). I was burned a few times with albums I didn't like AT ALL, and stopped. Even REM let me down with Monster.
I do find that manufactured pap gets the big promotion while talented artists get shorted. I look at someone like Sting who's making better music than he ever had in the past, and it seems nobody is paying attention. I've thought this of other older artists, listening to their new material and thinking, it's too bad they stopped promoting them 5 or 10 years ago.
With the amount of CDs I did buy that had 1 or 2 good songs and a bunch of crap, I tried Napster for a while, and it was good for me. I tried a lot of artists I'd not heard of (because they weren't N'Sync of course) and ended up buying their albums; I found that they were good ALBUMS and not just good singles.
With Napster gone, I'm fairly out of touch again. I rely on films and television shows to alert me to the music out there. Occasionally a friend may have a recommendation. MTV never seems to be playing videos when I turn it on, nor VH1. When they are, I'm not under the impression that I'm the target audience. Radio doesn't work either. Seems they are only aware of 10-20 songs at a given time. I've actually switched between the three major stations trying to avoid the song of the moment once, and it was playing on all 3! Now I listen to NPR and CDs I already have.
BMG and CDHQ are the only places I'll try artists I'm unsure of. I just can't justify plunking down $10-20 on an album of questionable value.
Since I do have several CDs where I enjoy 2-3 songs, I don't want music companies to threaten me with copy protection. I want to be able to burn those 2-3 songs on a CD with the 2-3 songs from another junk album with some good singles. I also want to be able to take a bunch of songs from albums I DO like and create mix CDs for the car.
I don't have a whole lot of faith in the music industry. Even when it seems they have it right, they mess it up. One of my favorite artists, Tori Amos, releases multiple singles alongside any given album. On each single are a handful of B-sides, cast-offs that didn't work on the album, but are perfectly good songs anyhow. Atlantic, in some fit of distress as she was going to leave the label, refused to release any singles for her last album and canned her video DVD - though the majority of album buyers for her tend to buy all ancillary products, ensuring good sales. Kind of backwards if you ask me.
The music industry needs a shakedown, from production to delivery. Someone needs to create a new music video network that isn't owned by the labels or pushing non-music shows. Unfortunately radio is already owned by conglomerates that know they can get an extra nickel everytime they play N'Sync, so that battle appears to have been lost.
I used to buy CDs left and right. I'd buy them the first week they were out based on favoring a band, or enjoying a video on MTV (generally 120 minutes). I was burned a few times with albums I didn't like AT ALL, and stopped. Even REM let me down with Monster.
I do find that manufactured pap gets the big promotion while talented artists get shorted. I look at someone like Sting who's making better music than he ever had in the past, and it seems nobody is paying attention. I've thought this of other older artists, listening to their new material and thinking, it's too bad they stopped promoting them 5 or 10 years ago.
With the amount of CDs I did buy that had 1 or 2 good songs and a bunch of crap, I tried Napster for a while, and it was good for me. I tried a lot of artists I'd not heard of (because they weren't N'Sync of course) and ended up buying their albums; I found that they were good ALBUMS and not just good singles.
With Napster gone, I'm fairly out of touch again. I rely on films and television shows to alert me to the music out there. Occasionally a friend may have a recommendation. MTV never seems to be playing videos when I turn it on, nor VH1. When they are, I'm not under the impression that I'm the target audience. Radio doesn't work either. Seems they are only aware of 10-20 songs at a given time. I've actually switched between the three major stations trying to avoid the song of the moment once, and it was playing on all 3! Now I listen to NPR and CDs I already have.
BMG and CDHQ are the only places I'll try artists I'm unsure of. I just can't justify plunking down $10-20 on an album of questionable value.
Since I do have several CDs where I enjoy 2-3 songs, I don't want music companies to threaten me with copy protection. I want to be able to burn those 2-3 songs on a CD with the 2-3 songs from another junk album with some good singles. I also want to be able to take a bunch of songs from albums I DO like and create mix CDs for the car.
I don't have a whole lot of faith in the music industry. Even when it seems they have it right, they mess it up. One of my favorite artists, Tori Amos, releases multiple singles alongside any given album. On each single are a handful of B-sides, cast-offs that didn't work on the album, but are perfectly good songs anyhow. Atlantic, in some fit of distress as she was going to leave the label, refused to release any singles for her last album and canned her video DVD - though the majority of album buyers for her tend to buy all ancillary products, ensuring good sales. Kind of backwards if you ask me.
The music industry needs a shakedown, from production to delivery. Someone needs to create a new music video network that isn't owned by the labels or pushing non-music shows. Unfortunately radio is already owned by conglomerates that know they can get an extra nickel everytime they play N'Sync, so that battle appears to have been lost.