Tas wrote:Markus: i have to disagree here, if that ok with you.
No problem, mate. I know that many people will do.
Tas wrote:
it's paramount there are clips, any fool can say it's the best thing since sliced bread and get away with it, the market isn't so fickle to believe any idiot who says it's the best work ever. the phrase seeing is believing comes to mind, here we'd use hearing is believing.
That's the main difference. I don't buy anything because someone tries to tell me it's the best. I personally buy things because I want to have this or because I think it is the best or worth it or a person I appreciate produced it. 99% of my bought soundtrack cd's I don't regret... so for my way I am not unhappy with the way I do.
Tas wrote:
I for one would never buy a CD which said it was rock, just because it was rock, and i love rock. (actually i don't but thats a different matter
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When I see special names like Williams, Horner, Goldsmith or a still very rare c64 remix CD (4 a year) etc. I buy it without any clip. If I was disappointed sometimes I avoid it. (like Reyn Ouwehand CD's im my case)
Tas wrote:
why do new artists in the charts get recognition and increase their sales? certainly not by advertising the genre, but by advertising the music they do.
That's true. But they don't get success by playing short clips IMHO. I think there are much better ways to reach the goal today, while we have a huge amount of black copies out. They are easily pushed with a huge amount of money, advertised in TV and on radio, so it is. Anyway I do not understand why it's impossible to get one special tune of a CD for about let's say 1 Euro ? Why do we need credit cards ? Why isn't there a better allround payment solution ? Ask Tom I am not wrong here. Anyway this is not the 1.000.000 seller we are talking about. I would bet that more people are not buying CD's because it is too long winded instead of not listening to clips.
And many SID lovers STILL do not know that this all here exist. I think it's a question of advertising (in a long way).
But at least this goes too far.
Where shall this end ? First off, 30 second clips, then 1 minute clips , then the whole track 256 kbps full and then finally you lend the customer 14 days the CD for testing ? Sorry, we are talking about a product of 15 Euro with a minimum of profit.
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