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immediate press release
Electro-Rap band "Reverb And The Verse" single handedly save the music
industry!
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YOU DON'T BUY MUSIC ANYMORE, DO YOU? REVERB AND
THE VERSE ARE ABOUT TO CHANGE ALL THAT.
Reverb And The Verse are trying
a radical
experiment for this album:
You may choose to
support our efforts and buy
this directly from R+TV for $1 via PayPal or Google Checkout
It will soon
also be available thru Apple iTunes for much more. .....$1 for 18 songs. You can be part of the revolution!
Some people in the industry agree
with R&TV,
CHECK OUT THIS SFWEEKLY ARTICLE!
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$1.00
D.E.P.T.H. C.H.A.R.G.E.S.
(digital mp3 download)
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...WHY:
A DIATRIBE
- The Phonograph was invented by Thomas Alva
Edison in about 1877. This recorded sounds on a wax cylinder. (source:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phonograph)
- In the 1920's, this later became known as the
phonograph record.
- In 1982, Sony
demonstrated the first Compact Disc. (source:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compact_Disc)
This allowed for high quality music to become portable.
- At that time, records (or albums) cost between
$15 and $20 or more for longer playing records. The play time was about 12.5
minutes per side, and was later extended.
- The play time for a standard CD was made to be
74 minutes to allow for Beethovens Symphony #9
- Records were difficult to mass produce; CD's
much easier. Records cost about $3 to manufacture. Compact Disks only pennies,
depending upon volume.
- Compact discs used to come with large
cardboard cases with artwork. It was an attempt at keeping them from being
stolen from stores, it was physically awkward to hide.
- Unless a music lover bought a "single" for a
cheaper amount, they could not get only the song they were looking for from a
CD. They had to pay full price.
- This price was somewhere between $16 and
$18.50 - all for a maximum 74 minutes of music.
- 10 songs is considered a "full length" album
still today, mostly because of the boundaries setup and established 75 years
ago or so.
- The "3 minute Pop Song" rule was established
mostly because of the technology available during the time, coupled with
peoples attention span.
- The MP3, or MPEG-2 audio Layer 3, was
invented and popularized in about 1995.
- It is a lossy format, which means you don't
really get all the audio frequencies from the master recorded files. This is
fine for most people.
- MP3's cost virtually nothing to make. The
songs that go in the MP3 can cost money, but it is important to understand
that MP3 is only the delivery mechanism.
- Apple iTunes was established in 2001. They
initially set a price of $1 per song, which the recording industry soon
embraced.
- This is about the same price for an entire
albums worth of material as it always has been since the invention of the
phonograph record.
Why are
we as consumers expected to pay the same (and sometimes more) for music when the
cost of manufacture has cheapened so dramatically?
Some
might suggest that this money goes to support the recording industry itself, not
the artist.
In my
not-so-humble opinion, the artist should be able to decide how much to charge
for his/her music, whether to charge at all, and receive most of the profit from
his/her work.
It is the
opinion of this author (REVERB) that this model should change.
And this
should change now.
PLEASE CORRECT MY ERRANT THINKING IF I'M
WRONG.
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