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DUBCC - Tha Connection => West Coast Classics => Topic started by: snopafly on March 15, 2008, 11:10:42 AM
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Should Snoop do like Timbaland on next album? Timbaland was gonna realease his next album on the mobile phone company.
Or should Snoop do like radiohead and realease the album for free download/ or the fan those to pay their price for it??? they had a big success on that
anyway the cd sales are going down and young people only wanna get certain songs from a artist not a whole album.
any thoughts on this??
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or the fan those to pay their price for it??? they had a big success on that
I thought it wasn't a success...? I thought every fucker downloaded that album for $0
I don't think there is any obviously workable business plan right now, simply because no matter what you do differently, if people can just grab the mp3s off the net for free, they will do. Everyone always says they'll go buy the album if it's good, but most people then go, well, once I have more money to spare I'll buy it - and they end up never buying it. Plus, for the same exact music you have to a) go down to the store, and b) pay a bunch of money for the album you already got for free at home. I'm not condoning downloading by the way, that's just the way it is at the moment - if people have a real easy option of getting stuff for nothing, they will
I think it's fucked up personally, but at the same time I download stuff, mainly because in the past I've spent shitloads on CDs and get home and there is like one good track on it, so now I always download to see if it's any good before hand. I always tell myself if it's real dope I'll go buy it, but nothing has been really dope in a long time (or at least not dope enough for me to part with my cash)
I think the only solution is for them to properly crack down on downloading, I think in Europe they're starting to hold the internet service providers responsible and they will terminate your internet if you're downloading a bunch of stuff. All this i-tunes and embracing the new technology is bullshit in my opinion because whatever they do it will never beat getting the same product for free if that option still exists
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or the fan those to pay their price for it??? they had a big success on that
I thought it wasn't a success...? I thought every fucker downloaded that album for $0
I don't think there is any obviously workable business plan right now, simply because no matter what you do differently, if people can just grab the mp3s off the net for free, they will do. Everyone always says they'll go buy the album if it's good, but most people then go, well, once I have more money to spare I'll buy it - and they end up never buying it. Plus, for the same exact music you have to a) go down to the store, and b) pay a bunch of money for the album you already got for free at home. I'm not condoning downloading by the way, that's just the way it is at the moment - if people have a real easy option of getting stuff for nothing, they will
I think it's fucked up personally, but at the same time I download stuff, mainly because in the past I've spent shitloads on CDs and get home and there is like one good track on it, so now I always download to see if it's any good before hand. I always tell myself if it's real dope I'll go buy it, but nothing has been really dope in a long time (or at least not dope enough for me to part with my cash)
I think the only solution is for them to properly crack down on downloading, I think in Europe they're starting to hold the internet service providers responsible and they will terminate your internet if you're downloading a bunch of stuff. All this i-tunes and embracing the new technology is bullshit in my opinion because whatever they do it will never beat getting the same product for free if that option still exists
downloading is legal here ;D
believe me, your suggestion is a mission impossible.
as i said before, the industry should come up with a better alternative for the cd. just selling audio files at a certain price doesn't work, since it doesn't have any extra value in compared to free audio files.
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artists should def continue to make albums and release them.
Most artists dont make money off albums anyway it comes from touring.
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believe me, your suggestion is a mission impossible.
as i said before, the industry should come up with a better alternative for the cd. just selling audio files at a certain price doesn't work, since it doesn't have any extra value in compared to free audio files.
Though that sounds like a mission impossible too - right now mp3s are way more convenient than CDs, so they'd have to come up with something that is more convenient than mp3s, which is gonna be tough, because mp3s can be stored all on one device, skipped through easy, has pretty dope quality, etc (CD quality isn't enough of an incentive for most people)
Right now the only extra value is from the cover and booklet, and people don't really buy music for that. DVD content is also dope, but again I don't think enough people are interested in that for it to really count as extra value to most people (plus that shit often ends up for free on youtube as well lol)
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believe me, your suggestion is a mission impossible.
as i said before, the industry should come up with a better alternative for the cd. just selling audio files at a certain price doesn't work, since it doesn't have any extra value in compared to free audio files.
Though that sounds like a mission impossible too - right now mp3s are way more convenient than CDs, so they'd have to come up with something that is more convenient than mp3s, which is gonna be tough, because mp3s can be stored all on one device, skipped through easy, has pretty dope quality, etc (CD quality isn't enough of an incentive for most people)
Right now the only extra value is from the cover and booklet, and people don't really buy music for that. DVD content is also dope, but again I don't think enough people are interested in that for it to really count as extra value to most people (plus that shit often ends up for free on youtube as well lol)
yeah true, a lot of stuff is just bonus, but doesn't really add much, and it's gonna be very hard to come up with a good alternative, but that's were research comes in.
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DVD content is also dope, but again I don't think enough people are interested in that for it to really count as extra value to most people (plus that shit often ends up for free on youtube as well lol)
And with regard to the Ego Trippin DVD exclusive at Target, they charge like $5 extra to get the album + DVD bonus. Why would I spend half the price of the album for a 30 minute DVD? The DVD should be included free as motivation to not settle for the illegal MP3 download of the album proper.
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DVD content is also dope, but again I don't think enough people are interested in that for it to really count as extra value to most people (plus that shit often ends up for free on youtube as well lol)
And with regard to the Ego Trippin DVD exclusive at Target, they charge like $5 extra to get the album + DVD bonus. Why would I spend half the price of the album for a 30 minute DVD? The DVD should be included free as motivation to not settle for the illegal MP3 download of the album proper.
I bought it because I am a collector. It was worth the extra money to me. Not really sweating 5 dollars too much. It's incentive for people to buy it from there. Gives you a choice other then Best Buy or somewhere else.
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I think if any platinum rapper would have the courage and creativity to say fuck you to the RIAA and put out an album for free it would be snoop. He seems like a pretty open minded guy. Plus I'm pretty sure he's got the money to do whatever.
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i dunno if anyone has gone to any concerts lately but the prices are higher than what they used to be and thats how they really make their money.I think they should lower the prices to 599 and then it would sell for sure.