Famous iTunes hold outs

[underdog]

With Beatles now on iTunes, who are the last holdouts—and why? (http://music-mix.ew.com/2010/11/16/beatles-itunes-holdouts/)

Kid Rock: In a 2008 EW feature, he said ”I just don’t like being told what to do. I don’t have a beef with Apple, or iTunes, or any of them. I do have a beef with that it seems kind of socialist of them to charge the same price for every song. What if every car cost $4,000, you know what I mean? A song from my neighbor’s garage band is not the same value as Bruce Springsteen’s ‘Born to Run.’ I just want to decide how my product gets sold with the people who sell it.” (Kid’s rep confirmed to us today that his views have not changed.)

Kid Rock is right. Albums shouldn't be priced at the same price as all albums on itunes. They should be priced just like cds!

Oh, wait.

[Suspect Chin]

I'd be willing to pay at least $1.01 for a Kid Rock song.

[KnoxHarrington]

AC/DC's reasoning for this seems specious at best, because they've always struck me as a singles band. There's no album they have, including their masterpiece "Back in Black", that I really feel compelled to listen to all the way through.

But I understand, Brian. You intend for me to listen to 12 songs about how much you love to rock in a row rather than just picking 1 or 2 of those I do like and moving on.

[pennington]

A song from my neighbor’s garage band is not the same value as Bruce Springsteen’s ‘Born to Run.’

But a garage band will get ten downloads and Springsteen will get hundreds of thousands of downloads. Hence, Springsteen will make much more money. Maybe Kid Rock should let someone who understands business help him with business decisions.

Brian Johnson told Reuters, “”Maybe I’m just being old-fashioned, but this iTunes, God bless ‘em, it’s going to kill music if they’re not careful … It’s a…monster, this thing. It just worries me. And I’m sure they’re just doing it all in the interest of making as much…cash as possible.”

This was the same argument made when records came out, "It's going to kill the sheet-music business!". Then when radio started playing records (instead of live big-band broadcasts), "It's going to kill the record sales!".

Now "They're going to kill the business" if they allow people to only download what they want. They used to sell 45's of singles and the music business survived. Music will still be around in 20 years when people will be buying it in some form we don't even know about today.

[Dougie Brootal]

not for nothin, but brian johnson is an idiot.




and ac/dc sucks.

[Devo37]

I'd be willing to pay at least $1.01 for a Kid Rock song.

http://i31.photobucket.com/albums/c395/Devo37/Polyfuze_Method.jpg

The Polyfuze Method was a good album.

[foodcourtdruide]

I don't know why we act like it's sacreligious for musicians and record company executives not to be the richest people on the planet. Maybe, in the world that we live in it makes sense that famous musicians can't afford 35 houses? Why would any of us give a fuck about that?