Couldn't have said this better myself. Complete agreement with you,
especially about the clogging up of "product" with the major labels and the
comparison to Waterloo, etc...

Eric Van Rysdam



> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2010 15:27:44 -0700 (PDT)
> From: shteevea@yahoo.com
> To: audities@smoe.org
> Subject: Re: new Emusic pricing (again!)
> Message-ID: <540207.55682.qm@web65805.mail.ac4.yahoo.com>
>
> I've been a steadfast member since 2001, and have never had problems using
> my 50
> or even 75 credits, but this will be it for me.   The only time I haven't
> used
> all my credits is in the past few months, as the site got larded up with
> the
> Sony catalog, and it became impossible to actually discover any new music;
> if I
> didn't know exactly what I wanted, it was a useless exercise.  The site
> will be
> that much worse when they add UMG.
>
> Honestly, I think they'll probably be dead in a year, as this latest
> expansion
> of the catalog will likely drive more folks away, and their not going to
> compete
> with iTunes or Amazon for major label downloads.  I think they really had a
> chance about 18 months ago to stake a claim to being unique - to being the
> Waterloo or Easy Street or ear x-tacy of online music - but they've decided
> to
> be Best Buy.  I mean, what's their slogan going to be, we're just like
> iTunes
> now but cheaper?  Inertia is a powerful force, and folks aren't going to go
> en
> masse to save .25 a track. Just like I won't mind paying a little bit more
> to
> get the things I really want from CD Baby or Kool Kat or the artists
> themselves.
>
>