http://www.newsome.org/2006/02/what-is-it-with-online-music/ Kent Newsome on technology, music and life Sun, 05 Feb 2012 23:43:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.newsome.org/2006/02/what-is-it-with-online-music/comment-page-1/#comment-4924 bmo Sun, 19 Feb 2006 14:06:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/newsome/?p=2695#comment-4924 Disagree with kalbzayn. There all sorts of new and emerging music companies. Perhaps they will only ever serve smaller communities and that the mainstream audience - those served by the music business model of today - will never really disappear. The cost of entry into the oil business or alt energy tech is a lot higher than the cost of entry into the music business.And in the end it won't be headway into the existing business, it will be alt. to it. Don't know where you bought your coffee ten years ago, but it wasn't Starbucks. Disagree with kalbzayn. There all sorts of new and emerging music companies. Perhaps they will only ever serve smaller communities and that the mainstream audience – those served by the music business model of today – will never really disappear. The cost of entry into the oil business or alt energy tech is a lot higher than the cost of entry into the music business.And in the end it won’t be headway into the existing business, it will be alt. to it. Don’t know where you bought your coffee ten years ago, but it wasn’t Starbucks.

]]> http://www.newsome.org/2006/02/what-is-it-with-online-music/comment-page-1/#comment-4925 kalbzayn Thu, 16 Feb 2006 18:15:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/newsome/?p=2695#comment-4925 The reason nobody has started a "better" music company is because the music companies are still making money the other way and have all the major musicians locked up. Same thing with alternative fuels. The big oil companies are still making money and nobody else can invest the amount of cash it would take to start a new system.Nobody is going to make serious headway in the music business if the only bands they can sign are my dad's garage band. Until the U2's, Eminem's and all the other bands that people are buying today agree to sign with a label dedicated to handling the music distribution differently, the system will not be able to change. The reason nobody has started a “better” music company is because the music companies are still making money the other way and have all the major musicians locked up. Same thing with alternative fuels. The big oil companies are still making money and nobody else can invest the amount of cash it would take to start a new system.Nobody is going to make serious headway in the music business if the only bands they can sign are my dad’s garage band. Until the U2′s, Eminem’s and all the other bands that people are buying today agree to sign with a label dedicated to handling the music distribution differently, the system will not be able to change.

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