[LAU] ASCAP Assails Free-Culture, Digital-Rights Groups

[david]

ailo wrote:

>> Perhaps if you don't want to pay for my music, I haven't done a good 
>> enough job of making music you want to pay for?
>>
> I agree, though, who would want to pay 10 $ for one CD of music, when 
> ones' appetite for music may require you to buy 5 CD's a week, or more. 
> This I think is the Achilles heel when it comes to 'pay per product'. 
> Paying a membership fee is better, but in my view the prices need to be 
> really low in order for it to seem reasonable.

I have seen hardcore gamers by at least one $50 game a week. If your 
appetite for music is so great that you need to buy 5 CDs a week, one 
needs to perhaps either practice some self-control or make enough money 
to buy those 5 CDs a week.

I've bought as many as 5 CDs a week, but usually from the "Final 
clearance, reduced to $1" rack. I like to play "CD roulette" - buy some 
cheap CD, knowing nothing about the kind of music that's on it, and hear 
  what it sounds like. If I like it, I keep. If not, I give it away or 
donate it somewhere.

Anyone want a CD called "Dueling Organs" featuring Lyn Larsen performing 
on the Paramount Theatre Organ and Carlo Curley performing on a "digital 
electronic organ"? (Sorry, I know no more about the "digital electronic 
organ" than that phrase, which comes straight from the CD.) They're 
performing a selection of pieces by Schubert, J. S. Bach, Mozart, Grieg, 
Widor, Massenet and Rossini, plus two "traditional" songs - "All Through 
The Night" and "Rule Brittania". I like organ music, but this wasn't one 
of the keepers!

-- 
David
gnome at hawaii.rr.com
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