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Interesting topic. 
several thoughts;

Touring is often merely advertisement for Album sales as the cost of a large tour (big acts) is massive...one of the most profitable aspects of major tours is the merchandising.

As for independent lables popping up...it is happening with varying degree’s of success for the artists..

IMHO the compression that comes with mp3 files is so nasty I find myself replacing downloaded files with the actual CD.  (if you listen to the same artist on a variety of formats you can really here the loss of quality in the download.....)

I think they simply hate the music industry, or industry in general. It isn’t a marketing ploy. They were offered big bucks from starbucks. They have been ranting and raving against globalization for years.

Thom Yorke-

The sad thing is, if an issue is laughed at and patronised by mainstream media, then it’s up against it big-time. I read some journalist recently lecturing the anti-globalisation lobby, saying, ‘This is the way capitalism works, all capitalism is exploitation and to make it try and do something else, it’s never gonna happen.’ And it’s like, yeah, but where does that leave us? This is somehow God’s will? All this? It’s God’s will that we sit in traffic? It’s God’s will that millions of people are gonna die this year because of some outmoded economic policies? No, it’s not! It’s like some deranged sacrificial altar, the high priests of the global economy holding up these millions of children each year, like (Arms aloft) ‘We wish to please you! Oh Gods of free trade!’ It’s like… give us all a fucking break! If there is a Devil at work, then he rests in institutions and not in individuals. Because the beauty of institutions is that any individual can abdicate responsibility. The assumption that we’re all utterly powerless, that’s the Devil at work

imagine - IMHO the compression that comes with mp3 files is so nasty I find myself replacing downloaded files with the actual CD.

Prepare for the future right around the corner. Keep those CD’s scratchless and soon enough we’ll all just save the uncompressed wave file onto massive hard drives. Well,..at least people like you and I will. I appreciate the quality as well and anybody who says that they don’t notice the difference between MP3s and the original CD either 1.) has poor hearing or 2.) isn’t listening to a halfway decent sound system.

One terabyte hard drives are already here. Considering that the audio CD is no more than 700 megabytes, that’s close to 1500 CD’s ripped completely uncompressed! That’s technology that is already here today.

Something to think about. Don’t scratch those CD’s.

And here’s one for you imagine - Exact Audio Copy; a program that is both a ripper and an encoder. The ripping is excellent. When you take those CD’s and put them uncompressed onto the hard drives of tomorrow, this is the program to use.

Thanks for the “Exact adudio Copy” I have been planning on ordering a terabyte for audio...we use them already for images...I’ll download today at work and give it a spin..

I still toss on albums once in a while...something a bit nostalgic about all that ‘needle noise’....for a while anyway…

Pay what I want for Radiohead?  How about $0.03?

The internet surly did kill the copyright industry. The pirates of the electronic world web proudly offers you movies and music that have not even hit the stores.

I’m not a big Radiohead listener but this song is cool.

Radiohead - Creep

Touring is often merely advertisement for Album sales...—imagine

Are you sure? Nearly everyone I have known in bands has made most from touring, not albums. The only exception being a guy that wrote a single for a band he was in, and then left it. He still collects royalties for that song though.

The problem is the artists get only tiny amounts per CD, and even less for songs off iTunes (upto 0.08c/song for the band, normally less). The bulk of the money goes to the record labels and the distributors.

Even clowns like Eminem make most of their income from sources other than albums. (One stat. I saw stated that of the $10 million he earned in 2004?, only $2 million came from album sales). And Paul McCartney makes only about 3% of his income ($2 million of about $75 million) from song/album sales.

The internet surly did kill the copyright industry.—WETBACK

Bollocks. It has never been making more pesos than now. (Even if record company revenues are going down, movies have been trending upwards, and especially video games too.)

Likwidshoe: If you want CD quality, try FLAC (Fully Lossless Audio Compression?). It doesn’t mangle the data, just compresses it, much like ZIP.

“All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting.”
“Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac.” —George Orwell

Likwidshoe: If you want CD quality, try FLAC (Fully Lossless Audio Compression?). It doesn’t mangle the data, just compresses it, much like ZIP.

Naw. Until most portable music players start playing wave, I’ll continue to grit my teeth and encode to 320 kbps MP3s.

I appreciate the suggestion though.