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| From | "Andrew Hickey" <stealthmunchkin@gmail.com> |
| Subject | Re: McCartney again |
| Date | Thu, 14 Jun 2007 10:11:38 +0100 |
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On 6/14/07, Bryan <munki100@pacbell.net> wrote:
> The thing is, it rankles me a little when the recording artist
> says "record labels are dying, their ideas are boring, etc."
> and "I decided to go a different way," when, in fact, as in
> McCartney's situation, he's going about it the SAME EXACT
> way, working with a label that is just selling the CDs the same
> way as ever, but managing to make it seem like he's doing
> something different.
They're also making his album available through emusic for the first
time, which means I bought it, unlike his last three (none of which
were good enough for me to pay full CD price for, but all of which I
would pay the very small per-track price I pay through emusic). If the
company he's putting his new stuff out are marketing his stuff more
effectively (people are saying they're seeing posters and haven't for
previous ones) *and* getting it distribution through other outlets
(emusic, Starbucks) which mean sales will be up, *and* paying him more
money, then that does sound like being a 'shrewd businessman' to me.
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