[Not_Who_U_Think]

Interesting speculation about the future of the industry. I didn't know the timeline and history on the CD single.

[FierceDraka]

Interesting indeed. Hell, I didn't even know that the single had been given the axe. But I'm starting to get the impression that the recording industry is run by an unholy alliance of mouth-breathing knuckle-draggers and trial lawyers.

[Timesink]

The kids of Warped make up Generation D -- for Download...

If I were this guy's editor, I'd slap him silly for submitting something as vapid and trite as this phrase.

[jocon307]

"I've always said the stupider you are in the record business, the higher you go," [music promoter Alex] Cooley continues. "I know people who run labels, and I wouldn't let 'em wash my car." ...

As Chuck Comeau, drummer for the group Simple Plan, put it backstage at Warped: "Technology will always be faster than lawyers."

Good article, thanks for posting it, it's really the best I've read on this subject. They WERE fools to stop making singles, I didn't even realize this had happened. Oh, I thought those "single" cd's were sort of silly, but you know, I wasn't a teenager at the time. I guess neither were the people working in the record industry. Teenagers like to buy silly stuff, as long as it's cheap.

What made me hate the recording business was the move to tape in the 70s-80s. Those commercial tapes were crap, you were MUCH better off buying a blank tape and making a recording yourself from records. The pre-made ones failed regularly, the media obviously wasn't as good as the ones sold blank. This is really a group that should be asking "Why do they hate us?"

We made the kid disable the uploads, I sincerely hope this lawsuit thing blows up in their face, but in these new fascist days I'm not so sure it will. But the drummer is right, technology WILL always be faster than lawyers. I guess that's why they call them ambulence "chasers".

[Nick Danger]

[GraniteStateConservative]

Clay Aiken from American Idol II set records for the release of his single-- hitting platinum. He wouldn't be in such a small club if other companies produced 2-side singles.

[Tamzee]

Great article, thanks!

I stopped buying CD's when the RIAA was found guilty of price fixing... I read up on the industry at that point and found out how rotten the labels really were. They scream that the poor "artists" are being stolen from by downloaders, but the labels have been massively screwing the artists since the very beginning. Adding price fixing into that mix and I felt that the labels were simply the slimiest type of middleman stealing from both sides - the artists and customers. Now that the Internet has made that middleman completely unnecessary, I can't wait to see them disappear someday :-)

[P.O.E.]

I really just have to laugh.

The recording industry has been ripping off artists for years (early black artists especially so).

[Bonaparte]

As Chuck Comeau, drummer for the group Simple Plan, put it backstage at Warped: "Technology will always be faster than lawyers."

That says it all.

[strela]

I think that new cars today are too expensive, and besides, I want one. So, I'm going to run down to my local Chevy dealer tomorrow, take a test drive in that spiffy new cherry red '03 Corvette I've had my eye on, then offer him $1000.00 as payment in full for a 5 year lease. If he refuses, I'll just take the car anyway and leave the $1000. If he gets snippy about accepting my $1000, I'll just tell him to get off my back and remind him that GM has lost several lawsuits in court, so they're evil and he can go berate them for being so evil and not pricing their cars so I can afford them. Besides, I'm not actually keeping the car, I'm only leasing it, so its not really theft.

Sure sounds like a good plan to me. I'll of course have many Freepers who will back me up and picket GM when the police come and arrest me, right?

[wasp69]

The RIAA hopes that some highly public court cases against individuals will discourage all of the downloading it says is hurting sales.

It seems to me that anytime what is perceived as a large, oppressive entity tries these public executions all they get in return is more resistance. If you do not learn from history, you are doomed to repeat it.

[Drew68]

Young fans in particular download songs and burn their own mix CDs, full of songs from different musicians. . . It's the musical equivalent of channel surfing with a remote control -- it's more fun, for some fans, to listen to songs by 20 bands on one CD than to listen to one hour by the same artist.

Ya'll just figured this out? Jeez! I was making mix tapes back in the 1980s. So was everyone I knew.