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| From | "Michael Bennett" <mrhonorama@hotmail.com> |
| Subject | Re: too much and or not enough |
| Date | Sat, 12 May 2007 12:18:23 -0500 |
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So, do you buy your milk directly from the farmer who complains that he
can't make a profit either?
Mike Bennett
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>From: "Jeff" <jeff.teez@comcast.net>
>Reply-To: audities@smoe.org
>To: "Audities" <audities@smoe.org>, <bobhutton@btinternet.com>
>Subject: Re: too much and or not enough
>Date: Sat, 12 May 2007 12:37:36 -0400
>
>I'm just fantasizing here that I represent the typical consumer of
>music:
>
>We, the consumers, will determine the value of your musical product
>because we ARE the marketplace. You can accept that reality or not,
>obviously. Your fortunes (literally or figuratively) or lack thereof
>will no doubt follow your decision. Collectively, we'll decide with our
>ears and then our dollars what your music is worth. We may decide that
>it's worth $2.00 a track, or we may decide that it's worth .09 cents a
>track (the current going rate on the lowest priced Russian mp3 sites).
>We may even decide that it's not worth anything at all and choose to
>ignore you entirely. The labor, love or sweat that you put into it
>doesn't factor into the equation at all from a strictly consumerist
>point of view. You could've tossed something brilliant off in your
>basement in 15 minutes and posted it to your myspace page and it's so
>damn good that suddenly everyone is clamoring for it and will pay
>accordingly. Or, you could have labored for hundreds of hours in an
>expensive studio and come up with a piece of crap that *nobody* is even
>remotely interested in. Ultimately, it's OUR decision, not yours or
>anyone associated with you. You put it out there however you're able and
>however you see fit. We can handle it from there. We don't need to or
>want to pay your publicists, lawyers or anyone else. We'll gladly pay
>YOU for the music you make. If I decide that I want to take your music
>home with me (in a physical or digital sense), then I'll most happily
>put my $15.00 of hard-earned cash in your hand after seeing you play
>LIVE. I'll put it in YOUR hand and very much enjoy seeing you tuck it
>into YOUR pocket. If you want to split it up amongst your business
>associates or whomever else after that, that's up to you. But don't
>expect or ask ME to pay them. And that's exactly what I'm doing by
>paying iTunes, EMI or anyone else.
>
>I'm not personally responsible to any of you in the music business
>anymore than any of you are personally responsible to me. You can try to
>*make this* personal all you want, but it's basically bread on the table
>v. music on the victrola. Put the product out or don't, but don't blame
>your problems on us. We're just fans and, ultimately, consumers. We're
>not here to help you pay your phone bill just because you're *trying
>really, really hard*.
>
>Aren't you just pissing into the wind when you complain that some/most
>people want to pay as little as possible or even nothing for your music?
>No kidding. Isn't that, in part at least, and for only SOME of us, human
>nature? What in the world can you possibly do about it? What do you
>propose? I'd suggest that you accept that reality and either keep making
>music within the current parameters or don't. But for God's sake, please
>stop whining about it.
>
>I'd sure be interested in hearing what the 650 OTHER auditeers who don't
>regularly (or ever) post here think about all this. We pretty much know
>what the other 36 of you think. You've stated it, refined it, restated
>it, clarified it and on and on, ad nauseum. Even the Big Star thread is
>a step in the right direction away from all this woe-is-us fatalism, and
>God knows we've not discussed their merits (or lack thereof) nearly
>enough on this list.
>
>jeff teez (crouched and head covered in the elementary school hall of my
>imagination)
>
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