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| From | Jocelyn Geboy <smussyolay@yahoo.com> |
| Subject | market economics |
| Date | Fri, 5 Sep 2003 16:42:27 -0700 (PDT) |
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~~~~~~~~~~many of my friends know me as quite the
socialist. but really, this conversation is exactly
why i do like small business capitalism. the market
will dictate all of these varying combos you are all
speaking of...
i bet people will always be able to buy records and
vinyl...because they truly have a unique sound and
flavor that you can't get anywhere else. an old
friend had a record collection (probably still does,
actually) and when he decided it was time to sit back,
relax and play DJ, there was nothing to compare to the
sound of elton john on record. fleetwood mac. t.
rex. it's warm and organic and inviting. there's
lots of cover art. big liner notes. sleeves and
jackets. and we all know, if one is so inclined, you
can remove the chaff from the wheat, so to speak. you
have to get up to change the side. needles are hard
to come by. you mostly just have to listen to the
whole record.
you're driving in a car. you don't have money to buy a
new car. it doesn't have a cd player. you don't have
money to get all your music re-purchased in new
formats. you don't have money to get a new computer
with a cd burner. but you have cassettes. some
people are still there. i'm not one of them. but,
they're still there. you can still buy blank ones.
at a group i attend, we tape our large meetings where
things get voted on. on cassette. not cd.
cd cd cd. quick, easy, you can carry them around. you
can make them yourself. you can skip tracks. they
still come with art. liner notes. lyrics. you can
hold them in your hand. they skip, they break. you
lose them. they get stolen. you don't have to have a
ton of technical knowledge.
mp3's/ipods/computer stuff. you can download. make
your own mixes, carry it around. they hold a lot of
stuff, you don't have to own shitloads of physical
storage. it's easy.
it's all out there. it's all going to be out there.
nothing's going away. the market's going to dictate
what the price of all these things are...that's all.
what people want to buy and for what. i mean, the way
we all are talking, we all want our own favorite
medium right here, right now for 5 dollars.
my beef has just always been that cds have been priced
way too high for way too long and that it seems to
have been sort of monopoly/fixed sort of thing.
that's my deal. i'm not worried about how it goes
down, what new thing comes or goes or what. it's all
going to happen. it's advancing more rapidly than i
think any of us could have thought.
i remember watching 'pee wee's playhouse' as a kid.
he had this telephone booth that he'd get into and
talk on this videophone. and it was like a whole
future dream. my sister and i would sit there and
say: man, wouldn't that be AWEsome, if we could have
one of those? what was that? 1985? 86? somewhere
between jambi and jerking off.
and now we can take pictures, talk on the phone, send
email, check the cubs score, and annoy the person
sitting next to us on the bus. who would have
guessed?
mekaleka hi meka henie ho--
jocelyn
--- Mark Tate <zumpp99@hotmail.com> wrote:
> But why on earth would anyone want to do this when
> they can do it at home on
> the computer, save on time, gas costs and it only
> costs them a $1 or less?
>
> Mark
>
>
> >
> >Maybe in a couple of years you will bring your iPod
> to the mall or
> >supermarket, slide a couple of bucks into a vending
> machine, connect
> >your iPod and get a song or two, along with some
> art and lyrics. And
> >kids may love it as much as we love the tactile
> thing.
>
>
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