Wednesday, October 22, 2003
  Aha! On page 17 of the Oct. 30 issue of Rolling stone "People buy a CD when it's good and they don't buy it when it's crappy." says Antonio "LA" Reid, the president and CEO of Arista, home to OutKast. "We've had bootlegging forever in our industry. We have ourselves to blame, too. In the music business, we don't concern ourselves enough with value or quality. The reality is that we're suffering because we sell a lot of shit" I can't understand why its taking so long for industry guys to understand this simple fact. If you mass market me Britney Spears and try to get me to buy the whole album, there is no WAY that's gonna happen. She's a singles artist. I'm not selling out 18 bucks for one or two radio songs. In the 60's and 70's we didn't have file sharing but everyone made albums that mattered. I'm not saying they all were good, some were god-awful, but ALL were about the ALBUM. EACH song on the album mattered to the album. Heck Pink Floyd and The Who (to name just a few) made whole career's out of albums. If you heard just one song off of Tommy or The Wall you'd have no fucking idea what was going on. These were statements and labors of love. There were tons of singles acts back then too, that's why you had 45's. You could buy two singles without having to shell out for the entire album and the 45's were CHEAP. There is so little value in a CD today. That's why people can download a single or even 3 songs off a new album and be satisfied. The rest of the thing is most likely crap. I no longer download personally, I like to support the artists I actually care about, and I hope you do too. The suits are losing the most money off filesharing, but the artists pay more in the end. If this album doesn't make big bucks, the next one and the next will be harder (if not impossible) to gamble on. More on that later... Anne let this go at 10/22/2003 02:19:00 PM

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