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What’s wrong with the music industry and how to fix it
Everyone is talking about how the music industry is in the dumps. But, the problem is not really new. Whenever there is a lack of exposure to new music the music industry takes a dive. Some of you...
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A rebuttal to John Mellencamp’s view on the decline of the music industry
John Mellencamp wrote a piece about what’s wrong with the music industry. While he made some good points, some of his points were completely erroneous. His point about the music industry being taken...
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What did we do before the net?
I’m taking my family to see a Kiss concert this summer. The kids and wife are not as familiar with Kiss’ music as I am. So I put together a playlist of some of their more famous songs so everyone could...
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How Copyright Infringement both Helped and Nearly Killed Metallica
As we probably all know by now, Metallica was one of the first bands to come out against file sharing. They nearly killed off their fan base by attacking fans and suing Napster. What’s interesting...
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Does the US really support free market capitalism?
Guitarist Jack White is being heavily criticized for the evil act of selling products at a fair market price. Wait, since when is selling products at fair market price evil? Here’s a little background....
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Most Awesomely Ugly Piano Ever!!
A picture truly is worth a thousand gags. Click the pic if you dare to buy. Share this:
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Who owns Friday?
I was going to spend a lot of time writing about the copyright intricacies involved in the awesome Rebecca Black song Friday. The issue is interesting (well, at least to me) because Miss Black is not...
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What a great scam…
Sometime ago Madonna (the singer) decided to build school in Africa for poor girls. She raised 18 million dollars in donations to build that school. (God, can you imagine the awesome school you could...
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Gee, I’d hate to own a major music label nowadays
Gee, I’d hate to own a major music label right now. As I’ve written about previously, song writers and recording artists are going to be able to start getting back their copyrights in 2013. That means...
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Mandating radios in our pants will not save radio!
As I’ve written about previously, the RIAA is attempting to get radio stations to pay the labels musicians for the music radio plays. Not through any free-market business approach, but through an act...
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Richard Marx is not shameless
I don’t know if you’ve heard about the bizarre actions of singer/songwriter Richard Marx, but in a nutshell, a very small time blogger called him “shameless” and the singer went sort of nuts, in my...
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Songs That Objectively Suck
I know what you’re gonna say, the appreciation of music is purely subjective, but I’ve come across some songs that are so bad that they’re objectively bad. Let’s go through them. Animotion’s “Room to...
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Why doesn’t Gene Simmons get the Internet?
Another day, another diatribe from Gene Simmons. Although Napster has not been around for well over a decade, he’s still pissed about it. To him, the internet has killed the music industry. But yet...
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