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It's too expensive
Let's start simple: the iTunes Music Store is not a good value for customers. Apple says many users are buying whole "albums" for $8-$12 each. That's less than the $16 store price, but used CDs at Amazon or ebay cost $5, and those come with liner notes. If you don't care about liner notes, you can burn the CD from a friend for 25 cents and send the musician a buck. In both cases, you end up with a real CD, and you can always use iTunes to rip it onto your computer or mp3 player. And you don't have to deal with restrictions on how you use it.
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And many more reasons the online apple music store isn't all it's cracked up to be via the link below...
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$US values up there, just to clarify....
$US values up there, just to clarify.
as long as Soulseek is cranking along, ...
as long as Soulseek is cranking along, i don't give a damn about iTunes.. .
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word.
tripple word. i found insurgent ...
tripple word.
i found insurgent geurilla in the screamo room and he has allot of fun videos!
nice nz music topic BTW forum god
Thanks for that - really interesting....
Thanks for that - really interesting.
Ok, poor The Americans and their iTunes ...
Ok, poor The Americans and their iTunes store, but such a wonder of modern technology isn't even available in Aotearoa. I'm going to save any ire for when Apple finally gets around to opening the NZ iTunes store. I have money I want to spend on music and I can't be bothered getting off the couch, catching a bus in town and buying CDs that I'll only end up ripping on to my iBook.
This is an interesting article thanks ...
This is an interesting article thanks Noizyboy.
To put it in persepctive compare iTunes to our NZ's very own amplifier which supports downloads of NZ only music (incase you didnt already know this)
Amplifier gives artists approximately 50% of the cut of selling digital music...well thats if youre independent. Dont know how it works if you are on a label however (what is their cut?)
So this is a helluva lot better than the 10% an artist might get from iTunes ... (not that an indie artist would even get on iTunes) (Note I am in no way affiliated with Amplifier)
I am not sure how this income compares to what an artist gets from CD sales..perhaps someone with some experience would like to comment??
Personally I prefer to spend my recreation money supporting musicians not some big fat corporation. Since there is such a small pot of money in NZ music this discussion seems relevant ..
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// not that an indie artist would even ...
// not that an indie artist would even get on iTunes
actually, it's pretty easy to get on iTunes if you're an indie. You just need to hook up with online distributor (cdbaby.com is the one I've had experience with), send them your CDs, and they add your songs to iTunes as part of the deal. You get a bigger cut than a major label artist (cdbaby gives you 91% of any profits you make from physical/online sales)
Yeap Dukes of Leisure have hooked up ...
Yeap Dukes of Leisure have hooked up with LOOP to give us a hand in getting onto Itunes - as noizy said a better deal than most of the majors get but then again we won't be turning over the same sort of sales as majors would be... but it's not that hard to get onto Itunes...
Intersting I didnt know that......
Intersting I didnt know that...
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