thecampusword.com— Will new marketing techniques, a la Radiohead's In Rainbows, be able to fix the music industry? Trent Reznor is the latest example that they certainly have a chance.
Mar 23, 2008View in Crawl 4
This model would make sense if you had as much publicity as NIN does. I don't think it will work for everyone however I still believe that Record companies and yes even artists, made too much money off of music CDs. I can understand the pricing of concerts, but not cd's. Especially when you can spend a few months making a CD and then mass produce it for pennies on the dollar. Also do not forget the way artists would regurgitate out 12 to 15 songs on a CD and only 3 would be great/good. Man that used to piss me off. Thats why buying one song at a time is genius.
do you think that housing, food, living expenses, studio time, and equipment are all f**king free for the months it takes to write and record a CD? you have absolutely no idea how much it really costs to create a CD.
Really all goes in Reznors pockets? I believe his pockets were pretty open when helping Saul Williams out last year. Also not to mention in the past he is the guy responsible for making Marylin Manson who he is, and working with other more unknown artists when he ran Nothing records. So don't say Reznor doesn't do anything to develop other artists because clearly he does. Artists today can help promote other artists, the major label thing can be slowly phased out or it has evolve out of its current state.Overall for the most part it does help an already successful artist for now but there clearly most be change in the way the industry does business and if major acts like NIN and Radiohead continue to leave labels they will notice it in their pocket book and will realize they have to change in order to survive.
What's with the Radiohead reference here? Radiohead started doing this following Trent Reznor, they didn't do it first. Plus Radiohead aren't making any content available under Creative Commons, and they've gone on the record saying they don't believe music should be free, they're only making theirs semi-free to stop piracy.
stonewaljacksnMar 25, 2008
is trent reznor the douchebag or are the people who make him into some kind of god the douchebags?
gerbintoshMar 25, 2008
This model would make sense if you had as much publicity as NIN does. I don't think it will work for everyone however I still believe that Record companies and yes even artists, made too much money off of music CDs. I can understand the pricing of concerts, but not cd's. Especially when you can spend a few months making a CD and then mass produce it for pennies on the dollar. Also do not forget the way artists would regurgitate out 12 to 15 songs on a CD and only 3 would be great/good. Man that used to piss me off. Thats why buying one song at a time is genius.
downneckMar 25, 2008
do you think that housing, food, living expenses, studio time, and equipment are all f**king free for the months it takes to write and record a CD? you have absolutely no idea how much it really costs to create a CD.
shabakaMar 26, 2008
Be real...when was the last time anyone paid $25 for a CD?
ratzmooseMar 26, 2008
Really all goes in Reznors pockets? I believe his pockets were pretty open when helping Saul Williams out last year. Also not to mention in the past he is the guy responsible for making Marylin Manson who he is, and working with other more unknown artists when he ran Nothing records. So don't say Reznor doesn't do anything to develop other artists because clearly he does. Artists today can help promote other artists, the major label thing can be slowly phased out or it has evolve out of its current state.Overall for the most part it does help an already successful artist for now but there clearly most be change in the way the industry does business and if major acts like NIN and Radiohead continue to leave labels they will notice it in their pocket book and will realize they have to change in order to survive.
surfingkidMar 27, 2008
what a breath of fresh 'music' air...I had almost forgotten what music was about:<a class="user" href="http://www.jamsbio.com">http://www.jamsbio.com</a>
year0Jun 23, 2008
Because Trent puts the rest to SHAME!!!
soapsuuMay 19, 2010
What's with the Radiohead reference here? Radiohead started doing this following Trent Reznor, they didn't do it first. Plus Radiohead aren't making any content available under Creative Commons, and they've gone on the record saying they don't believe music should be free, they're only making theirs semi-free to stop piracy.