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According to a New York Times article, the booklets that come with our music may become a thing of the past, due to increasing sales of digital music and decreasing sales of its hard copy brethren.
And it makes sense.
Most of the music I listen to every day has come to me through some sort of digital channel, stripping it of its paper clothes. Back in the day, the first thing I did after buying a CD, probably even before listening to it, was going through the booklet it came with, seeing who they thanked, checking to make sure they wrote their own music, etc. The same goes for tapes and vinyl. Old school record fans appreciate the big, cardboard sleeves just as much as they do the grooves on the disc.
So what’s gonna happen? Hard to say. I’d propose a standardized, cross-filetype tag, sort of like ID3, that incorporated txt or a PDF of the liner notes with each track. With the convergence of phones and media players, that could even be a link. Eventually, having an album’s accompanying booklet may be as common place as having a JPG of its cover art.
Link:http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/27/arts/music/27brow.html
Southern rockers the Allman brothers are suing their label, UMG Recordings, for $13+ million. They charge they have been “digitally exploited,” not getting their fair share of money earned from iTunes downloads, ring tones, and CDs of their recordings from 1969 to 1980.
I’m not sure if anyone’s really surprised by this. Capitalism is capitalism, money is money, and the cats that control the music industry are going to exploit artists until the artists stop letting them.
I think this is just another speck in the time line of the music industry’s (at least, as we know it now) destruction. Expect more artists to offer their music straight to the consumer for debatable cost, sans middle man, like Radiohead, NIN, and the plillions of music-loving indie musicians that have been doing it without any press mention.
Link:http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/13/arts/music/13arts-ALLMANBROTHE_BRF.html
[Update: James Brown’s Old Stuff Sold at Auction]
According to the New York Times,
“The personal possessions of the soul singer James Brown, the self-proclaimed “Godfather of Soul,” will be auctioned on Thursday as scheduled after an appeals court judge declined on Monday to block the sale.”
Like a lot of non-poor people who pass on, James Brown’s estate is getting fought over by opposing heirs. Add to that the fact that he was a mad pimp, and, well, you’ve got yourself quite a problem.
Link:http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/15/business/15jamesbrown.html
P.S. Have a good day!
I’m not sure if this is big news or not, but the internet certainly thinks so.
Axl Rose, of Guns n’ Roses fame, will debut a brand new song from the supposedly upcoming “Chinese Democracy” album to Rock Band 2, the sequel to the game where you pretend to be a musician with your friends. The song is called “Shackler’s Revenge,” and “Chinese Democracy” has been in the making for more than a decade.
I heard some of the leaked tracks from “Chinese Democracy” and wasn’t very impressed. Is it supposed to be like Bryan Wilson’s “Smile,” his big magnum opus that’ll take a lifetime to finish? Or is he just washed up and biding his time before people realize it?
Ugh. I wish there were something more important to talk about.
Link:http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/14/arts/music/14guns.html
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