Members Billster Posted September 23, 2008 Members Share Posted September 23, 2008 I still say my gas station idea, combined with rock bottom pricing would easily return viability to the CD format. It's in a thread around here somewhere for the uninitiated. Try a search, what ever term you use from beansaws to quicksand should work...these search engines follow no rules. Why don't you bump it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members the stranger Posted September 23, 2008 Members Share Posted September 23, 2008 I'll look around. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members the stranger Posted September 24, 2008 Members Share Posted September 24, 2008 Convenience Store Industry Sales Top $569 Billion, NACS Reports - Convenience store industry sales surged 15.0 percent to reach $569.4 billion in 2006, continuing a four-year run of extraordinary growth, with industry sales almost double the 2002 total of $290.6 billion, according to data released this morning by NACS, the association for convenience and petroleum retailing. Source: NACS Online April 2007 Use the same pricing structure in Wal-Mart, etc (what's left of music retail) and force them to lose this "edited" titles thing, which makes no sense in light of the games and movies they carry? The new economy is volume sales, not maximum profit per sale. More volume equals more profit in most popular examples. Plus, this takes CDs down to a disposable level. People buy them, use them up and buy more! Classic CDs are going to be selling like hotcakes at two bucks a pop. Above design, variations on such, are property of me...since I know my IP is at stake here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members the stranger Posted September 24, 2008 Members Share Posted September 24, 2008 Want to save music retail? Bring back the record store. Yeah. That sounds good. And Ken provided some insight into the favorable sales climate indicated by the numbers he pulled out of his hat. So, that's music industry salvage plan number 27b-42, subsection C. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members the stranger Posted September 24, 2008 Members Share Posted September 24, 2008 Better add a headphone system to that first display diagram for sampling new releases...what was I thinking? Probably already patented. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members TOOL_5150 Posted September 24, 2008 Members Share Posted September 24, 2008 this idea is stupid. and to get to the memory slot on my blackberry I have to take the battery out.... like I am going to do that just to listen to a few mp3s? Thats what the USB cable is for. ~Matt Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members the stranger Posted September 24, 2008 Members Share Posted September 24, 2008 First thing I would do as CEO of ACME Record Company is lobby to tax ISP, but not a tax-it's actually a fee that the ISP collects and forwards to the applicable agencies for royalty distribution. I posted the numbers a while back and my figures indicated a very small fee, considering the access to available media it provides. How about $3 bucks a month? 32.5 million broadband users in U.S. x $3 x 12 months = $1,170,000,000 a year This doesn't cover the complete cost of piracy, obviously. But, it does do something. Which Craig has noted seems to be a non-issue. That combined with other solutions, which must be something...12.5 billion is a freaking huge number! How did that ascertain that number? One credible analysis by the Institute for Policy Innovation concludes that global music piracy causes $12.5 billion of economic losses every year, 71,060 U.S. jobs lost, a loss of $2.7 billion in workers' earnings, and a loss of $422 million in tax revenues, $291 million in personal income tax and $131 million in lost corporate income and production taxes. For copies of the report, please visit www.ipi.org. http://www.riaa.com/physicalpiracy.php Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members the stranger Posted September 24, 2008 Members Share Posted September 24, 2008 I'd pay it just so I could listen to cool obscure vinyl on YouTube. I do now, but of course admit that I'm listening to music that the artist isn't getting compensated for. So, how can I protest the fee when I get free content? It wouldn't be hard to determine the royalty payouts, just look at the isp logs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Anderton Posted September 24, 2008 Members Share Posted September 24, 2008 this idea is stupid. and to get to the memory slot on my blackberry I have to take the battery out.... like I am going to do that just to listen to a few mp3s? Thats what the USB cable is for. Ding ding ding ding! We have a winner!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Cry Logic Posted September 24, 2008 Members Share Posted September 24, 2008 "....you had a display on every gas station/convenience store counter next to the lotto..." They already do that down here in Australia. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Duddits Posted September 24, 2008 Members Share Posted September 24, 2008 Also, the files are MP3s. What's the point of buying physical media if it's compressed? That's what the internet is for. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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