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Chewbacca · 01-21-2003, 10:20 PM

Somebody has to pay it and right now its the music labels and retailers. 500 music stores will close in America this year partly due to piracy, bootlegging, cd-burning and file-sharing. The Record labels are responsible as well.

The days of marketing singles to sell albums is over for the record labels and they don't know what to do. They are partially to blame themselves for not adapting to changing business conditions and for years of inflating their prices along with some retailers. Consumer backlash is hell.

I feel for the artists, street reps,and music store employees that are losing livelyhood from the decline of music sales. They have just been taken along for the ride.

BTW: I'm a music store employee. [img]smile.gif[/img]

[ 01-21-2003, 10:22 PM: Message edited by: Chewbacca ]

01-21-2003, 10:20 PM	#6
Chewbacca Zartan Join Date: July 18, 2001 Location: America, On The Beautiful Earth Age: 51 Posts: 5,373	Somebody has to pay it and right now its the music labels and retailers. 500 music stores will close in America this year partly due to piracy, bootlegging, cd-burning and file-sharing. The Record labels are responsible as well. The days of marketing singles to sell albums is over for the record labels and they don't know what to do. They are partially to blame themselves for not adapting to changing business conditions and for years of inflating their prices along with some retailers. Consumer backlash is hell. I feel for the artists, street reps,and music store employees that are losing livelyhood from the decline of music sales. They have just been taken along for the ride. BTW: I'm a music store employee. [img]smile.gif[/img] [ 01-21-2003, 10:22 PM: Message edited by: Chewbacca ] __________________ Support Local Music and Record Stores! Got Liberty?