Post #301508 by Lingam on Tue, Apr 24, 2007 3:10 PM

I thought I would add my thoughts here. I have a 45 jukebox in my tiki bar, vintage '68 Rock-o-la. I also have about 500 CDs. However I have ripped all of them to MP3 at the highest rate and now all of them sit on my server. I like CD artwork and liner notes but many artists are putting those up on Itunes or their website to download. Digital downloads of music has caused me to buy music I would not have before. I think artists would directly benefit from downloading of their works instead of paying Corporations to distribute their music. Corporations are only interested in striping out quality just to appeal to a larger market. Look at American Idol and all the crap that is in the pop marketplace now. Even good singers (Aguilera, Steffani) have to have the same pop sound when they are capable of much more. Plus with niche markets the money pool is very limited, why give the Corps a cut if you don't have to. Most people under 30 are all digital and expect music to be digital. They don't like paying for a whole CD for one song and the cover, when they can pay a buck for a song and download the CD cover from the bands website.

-Lingam