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| From | "Swim Taxi" <thegeniusiwas@hotmail.com> |
| Subject | Re: Too much and not enough (eMusic again) |
| Date | Tue, 15 May 2007 10:46:27 -0700 |
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Damian wrote:
<<I apply the same idea to music buying. If you can guarantee me I'll
enjoy every song (or at least most of them) on your album, I'll gladly
pay the $15. Not Lame provided that guarantee to me by streaming albums
such as the most recent by Roger Joseph Manning Jr and Richard X
Heyman.>>
Gary wrote:
<<Actually, this gets to heart of the whole eMusic issue for me. I think
most people would love to be able to hear an entire album beforehand in
order to judge if it is worth purchasing. In fact, I would argue that
music consumers should be able to hear an entire album before
purchasing. When you think about, what other product that is meant to be
used over and over do we buy with such little knowledge about what we
are actually getting for our money? Historically, we as music consumers
got used to fact that there was always a risk that our $12-15 could be
buying us something that was worth much less to us. We could minimize
that risk by going to a used store to use a listening station and buy
(bad: inconvenient and the artist/label get nothing) or listening to
song clips online (bad: insufficient for the most part).
So bottom line is that the consumer now has the power to easily and
conveniently minimize the risk of the music purchase. Sadly, this has
the effect of less money (perhaps less than should be) going to the
people creating the music. But you cannot deny that, in the past, music
providers were capitalizing (and profiting) on these risks being taken
by music purchasers. >>
Funny thing, I went to Amoeba today, and they have added digital listening
stations. Either I haven't been in a long time, they added these recently,
or I'm very unobservant. There's a huge database, and I was able to listen
to the first 10 tracks for each of the 6 albums I was thinking of buying (I
decided to buy 5 of them).
You can search the database for an album, or if you have the cd in your
hand, you can scan the bar code to find the album. Because you don't have
to stick a cd in a player, you're not limited to listening to used cd's.
And unlike at Virgin's listening stations, you're not limited to the 100 or
so cd's they're trying to push. You can preview 1000's of cd's. Amoeba
also doesn't blast the instore music, so your ears don't have that
distraction when you're trying to judge whether a cd is worth buying (a big
pet peeve I have with Virgin and some other stores).
Damian
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