CT2049 wrote:
There are a few labels that took their artists off the pass, the label that has the decemberists recently pulled all their artists too. For whatever reason labels are absolutely frightened of subscription based services. There was an article on it in Rolling Stone last month.
It is failure to understand the new economics of subscription based content. All most studios and artists hear is that users pay a fee ($15) and can download any of the available music, they don't see how they will get their chunk of the consumers money that way. They fail to understand that the fee is a monthly fee and that it offers a great alternative to people just ripping their music off by uploading it to a shared itunes account or downloading it from a free site.
It is a shallow and narrowminded group that fails to understand the dynamics of a changing marketplace, these are the people that still want you to pay $10-15 dollars per CD, despite the fact that they only put 1-2 quality songs on most released discs. They are still stuck in the thought patterns of the vinyl age, this is the same logic that has lead to the ongoing screenwriters strike.
