teenagehood is precisely when people
do spend ridiculous ammounts of money on recordings
later on a person learns the importance of rent, groceries and saving for retirement
if a song is good enough to shuffle on your ipod for a couple of weeks but not to actually buy the album, then its
not a good song
its failed a test and maybe this new technology will be a good thing in that it weeds out pop fluff from works of lasting value, thus delivering a monetary reward to artists who produce music worth listening to more than once
you know how people keep looking at the lists of bestselling records of all time and are surprised so many of the top entries are longforgotten fad records like the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack?
how so many topsellers one year all end up as garage sale joke records the next?
thats the result of people buying an album cuz its trendy without actually knowing whether theyll like the music or not ... if the album were any good they wouldnt be putting it out in the garage sale
this mp3 technology will solve that particular market distortion, and from this point on records that top sales charts will do so because theyve proven themselves to be a worthy purchase to prospective buyers
theres a concept from 1st year microeconomics classes: the price agreed on by purchaser and sellers assumes the purchaser has
perfect information about what he is buying
hearing an album before you buy it gives you perfect information and prevents ripoffs on the part of the seller
any artist who opposes mp3s does not have confidence in her own product to sell itself once listeners have actually heard it