Take a quick hit
by J. Freeman
Welcome to 2002 and I'm still on the couch wondering about it all. So let's get started.
Only in America: Mariah Carey signs a contract with Virgin (insert your own joke here) for $21 million dollars. She then proceeds to release "Glitter" a movie that you can still smell if you go to a theatre that was playing it and of course a companion cd of the alleged "music from the film", which also went in the tank. So instead of getting pressure from her label to come up with a hit record to justify her big long term contract they decide to "buy her out" and give her a lovely parting gift of $28 million. So for her mediocre performance she was rewarded $49 million dollars!! It's food for thought: I'm going about my career all wrong. Maybe to get that big raise or early retirement at work I will start working less until they will pay me to leave.
Can't get it right: The record
companies, once again prove the are not your friend. In an attempt to
come up with a subscription model for internet downloads they have the
following two subscription plans: One, on-demand streaming ó where a
user can click to hear a song, but not download it. The second
features limited downloads that stop working after a period of time or
after they've been played a certain number of times.
For instance, when MusicNet ó a joint venture between Warner Music
Group, BMG Entertainment and EMI Recorded Music ó launches later this
year via partners AOL and RealNetworks, it plans to offer monthly
subscriptions, which allow users to download a set number of songs for
a 30-day period. You can download the song you but can't transfer it
to cd or another device. Plus if you unsubscribe to the service the
songs will expire and not play. This is brilliant stuff!! You pay them
for music that you can't either download or if you can download it you
can't do anything with it but play it on your computer!! I still
hold to the fact if they would just make the price of cds reasonable
then people wouldn't feel so compelled to rip off the record labels.
So in that spirit I'd like to recommend you use LimeWire (free
download at: www.limewire.com)
to continue to download tunes you can use as you see fit from the
internet until the price of cds drops.
Reviews: This feature will return next month as I begin the 2002 search for music that matters, wish me luck.
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