Prince Is a Genius
Prince will give away his new cd in the newspaper and with concert tickets. I love it.
The record-selling intermediaries respond with this threat: "The Artist Formerly Known as Prince should know that with behaviour like this he will soon be the Artist Formerly Available in Record Stores. And I say that to all the other artists who may be tempted to dally with the Mail on Sunday."
I still have the fondest memories of The Clash for selling me their 3-album Sandinista for peanuts (back in the day).
UPDATE: My friend Andrew Keen continues to cause a stir with his book (Cult of the Amateur), arguing that not much good comes from amateurs’ use of new media to displace experts and intermediaries by simply getting out their stuff and letting people decide whether they like it (instead of, say, music industry experts filtering through the possibilities and publishing the best stuff – like Musical Youth and Milli Vanilli).
Andrew is wrong, of course, as these amateurs show by using new media to share a simple song at the dinner table (Gilberto Gil) or mountains of content (WILCO).
The record-selling intermediaries respond with this threat: "The Artist Formerly Known as Prince should know that with behaviour like this he will soon be the Artist Formerly Available in Record Stores. And I say that to all the other artists who may be tempted to dally with the Mail on Sunday."
I still have the fondest memories of The Clash for selling me their 3-album Sandinista for peanuts (back in the day).
UPDATE: My friend Andrew Keen continues to cause a stir with his book (Cult of the Amateur), arguing that not much good comes from amateurs’ use of new media to displace experts and intermediaries by simply getting out their stuff and letting people decide whether they like it (instead of, say, music industry experts filtering through the possibilities and publishing the best stuff – like Musical Youth and Milli Vanilli).
Andrew is wrong, of course, as these amateurs show by using new media to share a simple song at the dinner table (Gilberto Gil) or mountains of content (WILCO).
posted by steve u. at 6/29/2007
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Does anyone still buy music at record stores??
What is a record store?
Do you mean one of those little cubbies in the Mall, where some punk kid shows how "hip" she is by playing some alt-crap too loud and the selection is limited to the top 250 titles on Billboard?
I am still p***ed off about the Metallica CD I bought at Wal-Mart that had the "bad words" bleeped out.
Pretty much anything that sticks it to the labels makes me happy.
Ok, that you listen to the Clash is pretty cool, and blows my mind up a little bit.
I also agree that Mr. Keen is off base. Kinda. I think that his argument is both supported and not supported by the industry in past, present and future. Some professionals do bad stuff and some amateurs do great stuff. Look at Paul Potts in the UK, he's an amazing amateur, then look at Charlotte Church, she's a professional that has put out two horrible albums in a row.
Yes, I know I'm using opera to make my point, but, I like opera.
Jeff Bell listening to opera is a lot like Rep. Urquhart listening to The Clash.
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