I will steal.
Rumor has it that the big 5 record labels are fighting to have Apple raise the price of individual songs to $1.25 and albums up to $16.99 on iTunes. They also fight to sell albums only, but Steve Jobs refuses to give in. Apple refutes the rumors, but they make too much sense. The money-grubbing, greedy, lying, scumbag, music industry will not be happy until they find a way to completely destroy their own bsiness. I, for one, am tired of it. I am tired of this whole industry of pampered, talentless whores, trying to take our money and sue 12 year old girls. And we just keep on paying and paying and paying.
Well, I played nicely for a while. I really did. I own over 700 CDs. I only stopped buying them when I started buying music right from iTunes for the very reasonable price of $.99 a song, and $9.99 per album. I am almost happy to do it. I am supporting Apple, the artist, and generally doing the right thing. I have never really been one to steal much music anyway. I have taken some stuff. Mostly rare stuff, or live stuff, or songs that I know I like but is on an album that totally sucks. I can’t tell you how much I have spent on CDs for one song that I like, and the rest of a record that is total shit. They do it on purpose, just so you know. Now that iTunes is around, I can just buy the single songs I like, and I think it’s great. It is the way music buying should work.
You know, in the face RIAA lawsuits, and $16 CDs, and rampant filesharing and theft, the RIAA should embrace the possibilities that iTunes provides. It may be only popular alternative to all out theft, the only thumb stuck in the hole that might stop the flood, and the music industry still can’t be happy. Fuck. It makes me so mad. They will just never get it. They will squeeze and push and rape until there is nothing more to take, and then they will crumble. And I can’t wait.
By the way, Sony’s new Connect service boasts a library of 500,000 songs at $.99 each. It will fail. Sony will never understand that their proprietary file formats, and ATRAC, and crippled MP3 hardware will never, ever compare to the iPod or iTunes.
In any case, if they raise the prices of songs and albums on iTunes, I will stop buying music forever. I will steal everything. I promise. It will save me money, and it will make me happy. So, RIAA, music industry, big 5, Sony, EMI, Universal, whoever, go ahead, ruin another good thing, raise prices, sue, and see what happens to you. People can only take so much, and I, for one, have fucking had it.
Fuck the music industry. I use Acquisition on OS X. It rocks.
Dude, I’m right in there with you!
I wasn’t aware that there was talk of making it so you couldn’t buy individual tracks too. I have heard that the labels want to raise the price.
Just the fact that they want to raise prices is enough for me to go back to just stealing music. However, making it so that a person can’t buy individual tracks is way overboard the line for me.
It’s pretty clear that the RIAA want’s to destroy the music industry. If artists can’t see this, they are either blind or as greedy as the RIAA. The artists need to break away from labels and start promoting their music themselves. If all artists did this, there would be nothing for radio stations to play so radio would have to go to artists to work out deals instead of the RIAA. I don’t think it would take long for the artists to kill the RIAA if this happened. However, not being in the industry, I could be completely wrong about this.
I think it’s time for a P2P program and network that is more secure than PGP to open up and start sharing.
The RIAA and the RIAA controlled radio stations are so old school. Podcasting has exposed an alternative universe in the music world. I think we should dive into it and check it out before we go “stealing” un-inpired crappy works under the guise of the RIAA. There’s some real talent out there and we don’t need to steal to get it.