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| From | Jason Dunn <jasonhalogen@gmail.com> |
| Subject | Re: Years late, Universal cuts CD prices to combat poor sales |
| Date | Fri, 19 Mar 2010 15:33:12 -0400 |
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Homewood -
You're exactly right. And falling with the bean counters who gave us Creed
are a ton of hard-working music lovers struggling to make a mark for art in
an industry that doesn't care. Not to mention a whole mess of decent and/or
brilliant musicians who thought they'd gotten "lucky" when they signed with
a major.
My hope for the fall of the empire is that those deserving artists who've
truly struck a chord with their audiences, with or without major label
support, will be able to sustain and grow their careers upon the head start
they've been given. We've seen this already. It can happen.
It's funny - my band was approached this winter by some con artist from LA
after we were included in Music Connection's "Hot 100 Unsigned Artists" - he
was trying to rope us into his elaborate and transparent "awards" show. I
wound up in an argument with him because he didn't even bother getting our
name right before spamming us, and he quickly flew into cursing at me like a
sailor and insulting my family, all the while claiming he was going to
nominate me "songwriter of the year" (based on a song we released in 2007).
Then he went into some twisted logic about how I was screwed anyway because
"the majors are all falling, and what are you going to do then? So sad..."
So, I calmly explained to him how the fall of the major labels will be the
best thing to happen to real music in decades, in great and pretty much
irrefutable detail. He didn't write back after that.
"Big Al" or something. He's one of the rats that will almost surely drown,
clinging to the sinking ship. Good Riddance.
J
On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 3:13 PM, <scotthomewood@cs.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> It's too bad it's taken it so long to bite them in the ass, but
> t's enjoyable watching a pathetic, self-absorbed industry fail.
>
> I agree with this statement in theory, but it sucks to watch a bunch of
> record stores I've shopped in during visits to other cities and in my own
> town go under because people aren't buying from them anymore. Most feel the
> music business are these big record company shoe-salesmen in their
> skyscrapers but besides screwing their own business, they've managed to fuck
> over the little guys who actually love music as well.
>
> Homewood
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jason Dunn <jasonhalogen@gmail.com>
> To: audities@smoe.org
> Sent: Fri, Mar 19, 2010 3:02 pm
> Subject: Re: Years late, Universal cuts CD prices to combat poor sales
>
>
> The hilarity is, as some of you surely know already, is that the invention
> f the CD was originally heralded as a much cheaper format to produce, ship
> nd distribute, but the greed of the industry stopped any kind of price
> eduction. It's too bad it's taken it so long to bite them in the ass, but
> t's enjoyable watching a pathetic, self-absorbed industry fail.
>
> n Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 2:49 PM, Michael Coxe <popville@gmail.com> wrote:
> > For something not RIP related (except to the music industry in whole)
>
>
>
> http://arstechnica.com/media/news/2010/03/years-late-universal-cuts-cd-prices-to-combat-poor-sales.ars
> <
>
> http://arstechnica.com/media/news/2010/03/years-late-universal-cuts-cd-prices-to-combat-poor-sales.ars?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss
> >
>
> excerpt:
>
> Sales of digital downloads have not been enough to make up for the decline
> of CD sales since its peak in 2000. Universal Music Group plans to soften
> the fall of CD sales by dropping prices across the board <
>
> http://www.billboard.biz/bbbiz/content_display/industry/e3i56ed42b9a46f8554e2671afccecca01b
> >,
> to a maximum of $10.
>
> The company plans to test lower prices beginning next month and continuing
> throughout 2010. Nearly all of UMG's CDs will priced between $6 and $10.
> UMG
> is hoping that increased volume will make up for the price drop, and the
> company plans to create more higher-priced "deluxe" versions for more
> hardcore fans.
>
> "We think [the new pricing program] will really bring new life into the
> physical format," Universal Music Group Distribution president and CEO Jim
> Urie told /Billboard/.
>
> Retailers have been clamoring for lower retails prices, with many
> believing
> that $10 is the magic number to spur sales. (I'll admit, I rarely buy a
> physical CD for more than $10 these days). A recent test from Trans World
> Entertainment showed that a $9.99 price point doubled CD sales in over 100
> of its stores.
>
>
> Rock is dead, long live rock!
>
> - Michael
>
>
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"[Their] sound is big: U2 big, Oasis big, even a smidge of Pink Floyd big.
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