Klarinet Archive - Posting 001325.txt from 2000/05

From: Bilwright@-----.net (William Wright)
Subj: Re: [kl] Re: [kl,c] Does On-line Music make any money?
Date: Wed, 31 May 2000 02:24:45 -0400

<><> The bottom line for the big recording companies is winning
out against the art. So new means of distribution is the wave of the
future - like it or not.

David, is it the distribution or the _financial backing_ that is
failing?

I mean, would MP3.COM pay virtuoso salaries and hire half-a-dozen
world class symphony orchestras with the likes of Szell conducting and
commission the likes of Aaron Copland in order to sell $5.95 file
downloads?
You might wonder if inexpensive music is partly to blame for the
disappearnace of capital -- sort of cannibalizing the industry.
It seems to me that the big recording companies can start up a few
websites and offer downoads just as easily as MP3.COM can. What's
changing is the availability of capital investment to maintain the best
and largest orchestras and the virtuoso soloists and to commission the
world class composers.
And while I hate to say it, putting money and purchasing power in
the hands of children contributes to the effect. It takes maturity and
education to appreciate a fine violin in the hands of someone in a
wheelchair over a 100-decibel guitar amp and a jiggly girl.
I don't see that distribution is the issue at all.

-Bill

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