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As a musician, I can tell you, that the album is not a music cartel conspiracy. When used by a true studio musician and a good producer, the album is a complete piece of art comprised of its songs. To suggest that The White Album is not greater than the sum of its parts suggests extreme, and therefore unreliable, cynicism on your end. I do not, however, believe the consumer should not be able to buy a song from the album individually. I believe half of those disgusting CD profits comes from their limited lifespan, and if one song is scratching on my CD, I damn well want to be able to replace just that song. And with digital of course, as long as you back up, you only have to buy it once.

I'll also add that before purely digital music met smaller high-capacity storage, music had to come on its own storage unit, which would make selling singles not only impractical for the consumer
(imagine how many MORE ugly CD racks you'd have had), but also produce many times more waste.

Mar 05, 08 - 01:17 pm Comment from: MikeK

""Value-added album bundles." As we've said many times, as recently as last November: The album is an artificial construct developed by the music cartels to get more of your money for less effor"


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And as I, and many others have said many times as well. Your take on this matter is nothing but a sad misunderstanding and shows lack of respect and appreciation for an album as a piece of art from true artists.

I often agree with MDN takes.. However, we are on opposite ends of the spectrum on this one.

h - overall MDN is correct, 'Overall' being the key word. I've DJed since the 80's, and back then, most artists had to have a string of good selling singles to initiate an album. Nowadays a lot of 'albums' have 20 tracks, yet most are 'filler'. Get with the times, go to iTunes, listen to clips of all the modern music and see for yourself. CD profits come from not 'limited lifespan' (hell I have 20 year old vinyl that sounds new), but from artificially raising the price because it was a 'new format' which it hasn't been for a very long time. In the early 90's, vinyl LP's were $8, CD albums $20, yet CD albums stayed $20 up until about 2005, more than 10 years. It was designed to be highly profitable, by design. I bought over 500 songs from ITMS, all the best, which I could never have afforded in 'CD days' buying a expensive album, for 3 tracks. No offense to you friend, but music today has nothing to do with 'musicians' and everything to do with profit. Any musician who sees otherwise, needs to be on an indie label, and shouldn.t quit their day job. Yes, I am a 'musician' too, yet I've decided to adapt, by going indie, and embracing digital content delivery. . . . and not quitting my day job.

Mar 05, 08 - 01:22 pm Comment from: trex67

This "bundling technique" idea only applies to crappy artists, which unfortunately describes the majority of major label acts. There are, however, hundreds of more talented artists that are capable of writing and recording album length concept pieces that deserve more respect than MDN seems willing to concede. I can think of dozens of albums off the top of my head that meet this criteria.

Mar 05, 08 - 01:25 pm Comment from: MikeK

"No offense to you friend, but music today has nothing to do with 'musicians' and everything to do with profit"

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Well that all depends on what you are listening to now doesn't it?

If Britney Spears and Janet Jackson are your taste, then yes, you're correct.

But if artists like Radiohead, Keane and Coldplay are your thing, then I beg to differ.

7 who?

maybe they should team up with windows 7 and do a whole lot of nothin.

> We just wish they'd use the superior AAC instead of the ancient MP3 format* for their DRM-free music.

That's because you're a bozo.

Mar 05, 08 - 01:55 pm Comment from: AAPL

the artist should have direct access to itunes

upload and sell

period

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@ Mike K
"Your take on this matter is nothing but a sad misunderstanding and shows lack of respect and appreciation for an album as a piece of art from true artists."

A sad misunderstanding, and at the same time hilarious take, coming from someone who continues to use Harry Connick Jr.'s song "Blue Skys" on his website http://www.blueskycreative.com

Hey Mike, did Harry ever get his royalty fees for each and every time his song has been played on your website?

Mar 05, 08 - 02:08 pm Comment from: MikeK

@Hyprocrisy Alert!

Sorry, don't know where you got, or what information you have, but that site has absolutely nothing to do with me..

Mar 05, 08 - 02:11 pm Comment from: MikeK

@Hyprocrisy Alert!

Oh, I see. You just assumed that because that site was created by someone named "Michael Kaplan" that is was me, Mike K?

Well, again, sorry. My name is Mike Kraemer.. MDN knows me well, I send them links regularly.

Mar 05, 08 - 03:40 pm Comment from: effwerd

Warner Music International (WMI), a division of Warner Music Group and 7digital.com,

Wow, 7digital owns a piece of WMI?

"7digital.com will build and maintain dedicated artist or label pages which Warner Music labels and artists can edit remotely..."

Edit Remotely!! What will they think of next?

Mar 07, 08 - 04:44 pm Comment from: ElderNorm

Boy, you guys need to lighten up. LOL

I am just waiting for more blood on iTunes ....er....toon wheel. LOL

While I have nothing against other music sights, why try to learn how to use 4-5 sights when iTunes works so well. Plus, these new guys seem to ignore the Mac platform and only work 1/2 well on a PC.

Hey, its the weekend and I am going to relax. And listen to some music on iTunes.