If you think it’s a loss now, just wait until the machines die.
Cue howling and wailing of dinosaurs thrashing in the La Brea Tarpits.
1) BooHoo
2) Ha!
3) Next...
“Musicians are underpaid,”
This is sadly, still true, unless you’re in a city’s symphony orchestra. The guys who gig night in and night out in clubs are woefully underpaid, and most do it for their love of music and the joy of performing.
Gee a highly competitive market and she pay five times the minimum wage and won’t modernize.
For years the Sears refused to put 1-800 numbers in their catalogs for customers to order. Senior management could not understand why catalog sales were falling (hint competitors had toll-free numbers in their catalogs).
Why would a broke artist pay $36.95 for a book of Debussy's piano preludes from Frank's if it goes for $12.52 on Amazon? And why pay at all? Copies of the most popular classical works can be found for free on file sharing websites like the International Music Score Library Project.
Why indeed. Musicians are not stupid and they make rational decisions, including buying their sheet music online. Should government intervene to keep Frank's in business. That's certainly what is happening with other business in the face of new competition, so why not with sheet music?
Anyone can go to Saville Row and buy a very nice bespoke suit for $2000 - $3000, made the way that they used to make all suits: by hand. Most go to Men's Wearhouse and buy a suit that serves their purpose at a fraction of the price. Men aren't as well dressed, but that doesn't seem to matter much.
It’s a shame. I’m a musician and download my sheet music, now, if I have a special gig. I do miss the days of perusing the bins, tho.
You’re either on the train or you’re on the tracks.
You’re either on the train or you’re on the tracks.
You can compete on price or you can compete on service. It appears that she chose to do neither.
the rents kill all sorts of very valuable resources particulary in retail
the last mom and pop Camera Store In Marin County CA no longer carries the brands it did for decades...and basically sells accessories printing material...and repair service which one cant get that well on the Internet.
So where is one supposed to get sheet music?
Now how are the Marx Brothers supposed to insert “Take Me Out to the Ballgame” in the middle of the overture?
In other business news, Johnson’s Fine Buggy Whips announced today that it was merging with Amalgamated Spats and Button Shoes to form what is arguably the world’s most obsolete company.
the first thing I ever saw on the internet was images of printable sheet music.