Comments on: Mush

By: Bryan

Bryan — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 13:51:58 +0000

The RIAA is the reason sales are down. You aren’t the only one who won’t buy CDs any more because of their attitude that their customers are thieves. They have been stealing from artists for decades. They look at copyright as profit protection, not a protection for creativity. They put out CDs based on their view of profitability, not on artist merit. Like all corporate mindsets they are risk adverse, so don’t expect anything new and fresh from them, they aren’t interested until someone has already established their ability to make money.

By: Steve Bates

Steve Bates — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 06:43:12 +0000

On a related topic… look up John Lee Hooker, one of the few blues singers to beat the recording industry at its own game. He recorded under so many aliases that musicologists are still not sure they know all of them. That’s one way to have as many “exclusive contracts” as one wants!

By: Steve Bates

Steve Bates — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 06:40:09 +0000

I can’t add much to your intertubes troubles, except sympathy. I hope the problem is straightened out soon.

As to the RIAA, they have lost, in me, one of the best customers they ever had. The short version: I do not buy recordings on any medium anymore, except as gifts, or occasionally used or remaindered.

I used to go into a CD store… or even a vinyl store, showing how old I am… and buy $100 worth of recordings without thinking too hard about it. No more. An industry that regularly stiffs its customers, and especially its future customers (college students), by prosecuting them to the extent of the law, gets no sympathy from me, and no business, either.

I don’t steal recordings… I don’t need to, because I already own over 1,000 purchased legitimately… but I don’t buy them either. Fuck ’em.