Re: Brian Eno about recorded music

["L.Angulo" <labaloops@yahoo.com>]

Very good points Tyler!
and certainly a much more positive way of seeing the current state of the 
music business.Actually i consider myself lucky that i got to record CDs 
at a time when i didnt have to be with a label and did everything 
independently and came out debt free without owing a single penny to 
anyone.
thanx also for the emusic tip,i would also be interested in knowing which 
label you are working with.

cheers
www.myspace.com/luisangulocom


--- tyler newman <tyler@batterycage.com> schrieb am Di, 26.1.2010:

> Von: tyler newman <tyler@batterycage.com>
> Betreff: Re: Brian Eno about recorded music
> An: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com
> Datum: Dienstag, 26. Januar 2010, 21:08
> hi-
> > 
> > . But there is something special there that is lost on
> the I-Pod generation. I concur.
> > 
> i'm not too sure that i agree with a great deal of the
> sentiment expressed here, re: the fetishism of owning
> plastic/vinyl discs.
> 
> i'm not the ipod generation, nor am i old enough to
> actually consider vinyl "the superior medium". i own a few
> thousand cd's, accumulated over the past two decades more or
> less. i own zero vinyl records. i have owned four ipods. i
> have not owned a cd player in a decade. my primary source
> for listening to music is my computer and my ipod. i do not
> pirate music, ever.
> 
> at the beginning of 2009, i decided to do an experiment,
> and switch all my music purchases to digital only for the
> whole year. ok, i cheated a few times (if, and only if) a
> band i liked came through town; i'd probably buy their cd if
> i liked their performance. that said, i will probably never
> purchase another cd / physical product. here's a short
> list:
> 
> 1. the environmental cost is far too high. someday i'll be
> dead. and where will all that plastic end up? all those
> bulky jewel cases and shiny plastic coasters full of music
> that someone once cared about and now no one does. i don't
> like the idea of leaving a giant plastic footprint on the
> world.
> 
> 2. they are low touch, high occupancy items. i buy a cd, i
> rip it in itunes, i shelve it. end of story. sure i might
> read the liner notes a time or two. but by and large it is
> literally sitting there taking up space for the next X
> number of years. eventually, we're back to point 1, above.
> 
> 3. artwork, whatever. if i had a dollar for every cd i've
> bought with terrible artwork with no information inside, i
> could go on an itunes shopping spree. a nicely done PDF can
> be FAR better than a printed booklet, if it's done with some
> creative vision.
> 
> 4. record stores. sorry, but i really consider these a
> massive waste of time. don't get me wrong i used to get a
> lot of pleasure out of spending hours of my time and many
> many dollars at amoeba (here in SF, truly one of the nations
> best record stores). BUT, more often than not, they wouldn't
> have exactly what i was looking for, so i'd end up blindly
> buying other stuff with mixed results. so that can be pretty
> frustrating. sure, i came upon some great finds, but NOTHING
> can compare with highly tuned recommendation algorithms, not
> even friends recommendations. while i'm not too convinced by
> amazons recommender, i think emusic has a great one, and of
> course netflix (yes, different medium, but same principle)
> is basically unrivalled. add to that the fact that i can
> literally be listening to the record in my home environment
> in a matter of seconds, that's very compelling.
> 
> for me, digital is by far a superior music purchasing
> experience. i use itunes (rarely), amazon (occasionally),
> and emusic (like a crack addiction).
> 
> of course, as an artist, the move to digital has hurt my
> overall sales, as more people use file transfer for music
> piracy. that's an undeniable fact. BUT, it's helped me as
> well:
> 
> 1. digital sales are 100% trackable. this means that the
> numbers reported to soundscan are 100% accurate. no more
> guesswork as to how many onestops out there don't subscribe
> to soundscan, meaning i have no idea what my actual sales
> numbers are. i have a perfectly good relationship with my
> label, but nonetheless, i like seeing concrete data too.
> 
> 2. no physical product means that there are no more
> physical product returns affecting my sales. this is huge
> for me, as i got seriously screwed when tower records went
> out of business and returned over 2500 copies of my second
> album. i'm almost, but not quite, out of that hole (several
> years later).
> 
> 3. streaming revenue is making me more money now than
> physical sales on some of my records (the older ones in
> particular), which helps a lot. in a way, it's the perfect
> union of the above two points...how many broadcast radio
> stations really report accurate info? computer data allows
> for all of this to be 100% trackable, and helps my
> performing rights organization actually collect money and
> pay me!
> 
> i like the fact that eno is being so confrontational with
> his statement. artists are all too often throwing their
> hands in the air and bemoaning the death of the music
> industry. i've done it myself! so the challenge is to come
> up with other ways of making it work.
> 
> we're supposed to be creative people, right?
> 
> - tyler / informatik
> - www.nymphomatik.com
> ===================
> 
> 

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