...election and convenience of P2Ps. Because of consumer’s tendency to download single songs by many varying artists, many may wonder if increased Internet use will eventually exterminate the record album from existence. Personally, I do not foresee the death of CDs and albums as a product. The MP3 format is not quite CD quality, and the singles that are typically downloaded by consumers do not always reflect the talent or best product of a certain performer. Singles are what will make money, but B-sides, the songs that people do not buy the CD for, are also a culmination of an artist’s hard work. B-sides make an album good or bad, and consumers simply do not download B-sides. I fear that buying an entire album will become more rare as these new programs emerge that allow consumers to buy one song at a time, but the album will prevail. Newspapers and Magazines are now available online, but they still appear for retail in stores and by offline subscriptions. Online music purchasing shows no signs of dropping, and the consumers show no sign of listening to less music. The industry just has to take the initiative to make the music more accessible to music listeners at a fairer price.
Selling-out is crucial for artists in how they earn their living even if their main focus is on expressing creativity, money is also a large factor
If there is no individuality, then there is no costumer choice. When costumer choice is eliminated, then the problem of exploitation arrives from how these popular music products are commercialized. Raprehab reports, “[...] major record companies are paying radio stations thousands of dollars to play their records!” This contributes to the already established monopoly because when the radio, one of the most effective promotion and mass communication devices, circles around certain products attributed to certain labels exclusively, competition is lowered to a minimum, again. Alternative and independent labels are rarely ever, if lucky, played on the radio, leaving the only way for the consumer to discover alternatives to popular products through extensive research, that is unless the consumer is “not lazy” and willing to expand their horizons and turn their radius of view away from the popular world and dictated products into the underground, “struggling” music
With the invention of the Compact Disc (CD) in 1984 the music industry was able to increase their record revenues again surpassing $4 billion. According to the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), profits in 1988 increased up to $6.25 billion (Krasilovsky and Shemel, 2007). On one hand CD’s have proved to be very successful invention as it indicated that consumers are willing to pay for increased quality of goods and services. However on the other hand it had introduced issues relating piracy. Illegal reproduction of analog phonograph records was a relative harmless issue at this time, as the quality of sound would reduce by ea...
This is a movie review on Platoon, which is an American war film produced in 1986 and
Music has always been meant to be experienced. Before music was recorded, you went out to hear music being performed in person, to feel the vibrations going through you, to see the musicians playing, and to be around life and other people partaking in the same environment. When music was recorded onto vinyl, you had to actually sit down or be near the phonograph to listen to the record. You could pull apart the sleeve, lose yourself in the carefully chosen artwork, pour over the liner notes, or simply just lay back and soak in the sound. CDs and cassettes posed a minor disruption to this because while you still get a similar experience, CD players and Walkmans provided portable listening, but to listen to either, you still had ...
Film review
The film the Assassination of Jesse James - by the coward Robert Ford is a historical western drama based on a novel about a real American outlaw who lived during the 19th century . The novel, with the same title as the movie, is written by the author Ron Hansen and first published in 1983. The film is directed by Andrew Domnik and produced in 2007 by, among others, Brad Pitt, who even plays the main character Jesse James. Other characters are performed by Sam Shepard (Frank James), Casey Affleck (Robert ”Bob” Ford), Sam Rockwell (Charley Ford), Paul Schneider (James ”Dick” Liddil), Jeremy Renner (Wood Hite), Garret Dillahunt (Ed Miller) and Mary-Louise Parker (Zerelda ”Zee” James).
The Call of the Wild tells a story of a strong dog named Buck in the Yukon and Alaska and this movie is an audacious film. In this movie, during winter, people who are immersed in panning for gold have great demand to gigantic dogs who in a position to pull sleds over ice trails. Buck, a robust animal, is exactly what gold diggers look for. The protagonist called Miles is not just a dog-enthusiasts but also a brave and venturous man. He is so simpleminded and candid that makes him become a person with strong adaptability.
Movie Review: Radio
When you were in high school or just around town, did you ever see a mentally challenged person be treated like dirt? If so, then you should see the movie "Radio. " In one part of the movie "Radio", James Robert "Radio" Kennedy went around the high school football field every day. One day, Coach Harold Jones invited him inside the gates. The football players took advantage of Radio and locked him in the equipment shed while the players threw footballs at it.
Price is another key win for the consumer. With most traditional record companies' cost structures changing, lower prices are sure to follow. Companies may worry that a customer's downloading an MP3 file might preclude the purchase of the song on CD. That theory doesn't seem to hold. According to Gerald de Melo, a consumer with a Web site dedicated to the legal issues surrounding the MP3 format, some people "use MP3s to 'try before you buy'. They wouldn't have considered buying certain CDs if it wasn't for MP3s." According to Michael Robertson, CEO of MP3.com, "we had a chance to meet with one of the larger retailers for [the Rio MP3 player], and we asked them, 'Hey, do you know what people are buying when they come into your store and they buy a Rio, what other things are in their shopping cart?' They did a report and what they found out was that the average person buying a Rio bought five CDs at the same time". That would not indicate that digital music distribution is driven wholly by the consumer preference for free content on the Web.