And the business industries in this country aren’t a bunch of criminals either…

Music is just gold fish, like Jack White shown.

Honestly, I believe that the music industry will struggle as long as reality TV is big. Some may not believe it, but it’s definately true. Just look at how MTV evolved from music to reality…it coincides with the downfall of the music industries.

I read the article about the downfall of the music industry on this site. The beginning of the end to me was when they started charge $5 more for CD’s than cassettes in the early 90’s. Then when the grunge era ended and the one-hit-wonders pop era began again. People realized they were getting ripped off when they bought the $15 - $20 CD’s. That when file sharing become popular. So, in 2007, the record industry decides to play nice with music fans they lost to file sharing. They are a day late a quite a few dollars short. I have bought digital albums online, but I still listen to CD’s alot more. I wish the music industry would get their stuff together. I doubt it. They screwed the pooch over 15 years ago. Now, everybody, including music fans, are getting penalized by the record industry greed.

idk i really hope this destroys the radio.

all the labels would have to do is put out their singles through this website and all the american idol loving pop radio junkies would just gravitate to that.

The answer to all of this is very simple.

IF the labels would allow a service like allofmp3.com that was inexpensive, but not free. That would have ads but not expect consumers to watch an infomercial to get a download, that worked with all formats, or better yet would allow you to choose a format and quality, that had EVERYTHING you wanted COMPLETE catalogs of nearly every artist then people would stop stealing music.

Imagine allofmp3.com but $.40 per song for lo-fi and $.50 per song hi-fi and no DRM.

(labels would still make a killing at $.50 per song..so would the artist.)

I’d kick in $20-$30 per month for that service.

What I will not do is spend $1.29 for an mp4 from i-tunes when I can find the CD for less and the used CD for less than that.

digital music is just INFERIOR and of LESS VALUE than the physical CD or LP (I put it up there with an old school c-90 cassette copy off the radio)Why would the labels think anyone would become a lifetime music collecor of FILES and pay more than to have the original with a booklet and cover art, etc?

the big labels have a long way to go, but it’s a start.

…and just to clarify…I buy albums…

Entire albums…you can get ENTIRE DISCOGRAPHIES!

Well, yeah, except we all aren’t criminals.

It’s too bad that you can already get entire albums for free using bittorrent.