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Pete Townshend of The Who calls Apple's iTunes a "digital vampire"
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How would they benefit when that is known to be directly tied to increased pirating? Times are changing, people don't care about buying a whole cd when artists only release one good song on the album. Maybe the artists would consider making some actual good songs to make an album worthy of spending so much money on! Until then, iTunes can keep on rocking!iTunes profits from music without giving popular artists all the benefits they enjoyed under the record labels and music publishers.
Apple should replace the services formerly offered to musicians by the music business before it largely collapsed.
I think charging 15.00 for a CD did more damage to the artists than anything else also with iTunes ability to purchase the good songs the fodder went to the way side and forced artists to put quality songs on an album instead of one hit wonders. I also agree with everyone here that iTunes helped the music industry because if it was not
dying it sure smelled that way.
I hope some day everyone who thinks artists are whiners for wanting to sell albums instead of singles has the experience of their boss walking in one day and saying, "I know our original deal was to pay you for 8 hours of work, but now we just want to pay you for the time you are actually producing what we feel is good work. Maybe that's 8 hours, but probably it's more like one or two on any given day." Of course, you'll need to continue to work all 8 because you won't know which are the "good" hours and which are not, you just won't get paid for the "not good" ones.
I hope some day everyone who thinks artists are whiners for wanting to sell albums instead of singles has the experience of their boss walking in one day and saying, "I know our original deal was to pay you for 8 hours of work, but now we just want to pay you for the time you are actually producing what we feel is good work. Maybe that's 8 hours, but probably it's more like one or two on any given day." Of course, you'll need to continue to work all 8 because you won't know which are the "good" hours and which are not, you just won't get paid for the "not good" ones.