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From | Marty Rudnick <mrudnick@marturo.com> |
Subject | Re: Macca |
Date | Thu, 07 Jun 2007 08:21:30 -0700 |
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I pre-ordered mine from Amazon...it was in my mailbox on Tuesday. No
muss, no fuss, no foam.
Marty
Mark Smith wrote:
> When I said it seemed wrong, I didn't really mean wrong in the sense that
> artists shouldn't be signed to a coffee shop's record label, more that
> for
> me personally going into a coffee shop to buy a record in amongst people
> queueing for their latte's seemed an *odd* thing to have to do - it felt
> wrong. I couldn't care less who McCartney is signed with, it makes no
> difference to me as a consumer of his records. The only time it
> matters to
> me is when I can't actually get a hold of his record in a record store as
> seems to be the case with this new one.
>
> Who an artist is signed to and where I buy their record are two separate
> things and whilst I don't pay much attention to whether I'm buying
> from an
> indie signed artist or an artist on a major, I would prefer to buy my
> CD's
> from an actual record shop. Also, let's be honest it'll make no
> difference
> to Starbucks survival if I buy it there but it may make a difference
> to my
> local independent record shop.
>
> Mark
>
> On 6/7/07, Jaimie Vernon <bullseyecanada@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>>
>> Why does it matter WHO released the CD or why? The fact is that somebody
>> DID. We're in a world where it took 4 years for Tears For Fears to get a
>> label to actually put their last CD in retail stores and where every new
>> "event" album gets sold with exclusive packaging, bonus tracks and other
>> incentives just so you'll go to *their* store and not someone else's.
>>
>> I recall in the '80s buying Rhino-styled hits collections from Shell gas
>> stations. I have TIME/LIFE CDs I bought off of television. I have LPs I
>> got
>> by sending in pop bottle liners along with $2.99 for postage from 7UP.
>> None
>> of these companies are in the music business.
>>
>> I don't see the problem with Starbucks selling CDs. They're no more
>> interested in the music they're pimping than the CD retailers at this
>> point
>> because many of the CD retailers are now selling T-shirts and
>> ballcaps and
>> Family Guy dolls so it won't be long until their stock-in-trade, like
>> Wal-mart, is ubiquitous just to stay alive. CDs or shoes or coffee, it's
>> all
>> just inventory.
>>
>> And at the end of the day all you want is a CD, right? Go buy it from
>> Starbucks. And don't buy their coffee.
>>
>> Jaimie Vernon,
>> Bullseye
>>
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