![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cimoreneDear record industry,
Over the past year there have been a number of times when I heard a song and liked it so much that I thought, "I would like to give people money in exchange for this music!"
50% of those times, this has resulted in the simple enough procedure of ordering it from a CD store or digital music store.
The other 50% of those times, when I have searched these sources for music, it hasn't been available to me because I live in Europe.
Now, let me explain something to you, record industry. The fact that you haven't released a single to the radio in Europe? Doesn't mean that people in Europe don't know about it. There's something called the I-N-T-E-R-N-E-T and, thanks to the fact that artists (and also your companies) like to use it for promo, people all over the world can stumble over clips, advertisements, even full streams of this music over Internet radio, official websites, last.fm, etc.
So when my local music supplier can't give me my desired goods in exchange for the money I earmarked for them, I'm not putting it in a jar and marking the six-months-away date when said music is slated for European release on my calendar. No, I'm putting the money back in my wallet, and then I'm looking around the Internet for the music. It's not hard to find. In fact, finding the music for free is a much simpler process than paying for it. So you're not doing yourself any favors here. You're just ensuring that people get tired of listening to it and probably forget about it by the time the opportunity to pay you for it arrives.
Love,
Cim
Over the past year there have been a number of times when I heard a song and liked it so much that I thought, "I would like to give people money in exchange for this music!"
50% of those times, this has resulted in the simple enough procedure of ordering it from a CD store or digital music store.
The other 50% of those times, when I have searched these sources for music, it hasn't been available to me because I live in Europe.
Now, let me explain something to you, record industry. The fact that you haven't released a single to the radio in Europe? Doesn't mean that people in Europe don't know about it. There's something called the I-N-T-E-R-N-E-T and, thanks to the fact that artists (and also your companies) like to use it for promo, people all over the world can stumble over clips, advertisements, even full streams of this music over Internet radio, official websites, last.fm, etc.
So when my local music supplier can't give me my desired goods in exchange for the money I earmarked for them, I'm not putting it in a jar and marking the six-months-away date when said music is slated for European release on my calendar. No, I'm putting the money back in my wallet, and then I'm looking around the Internet for the music. It's not hard to find. In fact, finding the music for free is a much simpler process than paying for it. So you're not doing yourself any favors here. You're just ensuring that people get tired of listening to it and probably forget about it by the time the opportunity to pay you for it arrives.
Love,
Cim
(no subject)
Date: 26 Jun 2010 06:51 pm (UTC)And speaking of ridiculously delayed release dates, apparently I Love You Phillip Morris is now slated for OCTOBER. I gave up and downloaded a copy.
(no subject)
Date: 26 Jun 2010 06:54 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 27 Jun 2010 03:44 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 27 Jun 2010 03:46 pm (UTC)And that's not just greed-based regionality, it's the fucking evil US movie distribution industry combined with homophobia. What a delicious cocktail, right?
The Runaways came out a couple of months ago there, and I personally am fairly excited for a) Joan Jett biopic and b) girlkissing, and it's not due here till I think September. *RAGE*
(no subject)
Date: 3 Jul 2010 06:05 am (UTC)ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME? Jesus Christ, COVER YOUR EYES, THERE ARE HOMOSEXUALS IN THIS MOVIE. It's 20motherfucking10 oh my God. /off-topic