MPEG4

[Kurt Dwight Bleach]

Eric at Svetlana Electron Devices wrote:
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> It may or may NOT open up the world to the indie artist...don't count
> on it, and don't invest any of your pin money in it.
> 
> Remember how CDs would "change the face of the industry"? It's still
> run by the same damn giant corporations.....
> Why is it that an average CD costs 85 cents to make, yet popular titles
> on CD retail for $16.95? And that's US prices! $20-25 in the UK.....

Well, you could factor in hundreds of thousands of dollars in studio
costs, marketing, promotions, tour support and overhead, amortized
across the cost of each unit, and that gets you pretty close to the
wholesale cost. Not to mention the millions invested in acts that never
sell a copy, recouped through the very few acts that do actually make
it. 
                        
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> 
> face it, the industry is driven by 14-30 year old males who prefer
> their pop singers young, female, beautiful, skinny, blonde and as naked
> as possible.....either that, or ugly guitar-pounders with big hair,
> or hip-hop with mumbled dumb-boy lyrics about "bullets, bitches and
> 40-ounce beers"...
> 
> ....most people don't give a DAMN about experimental music.

That's exactly right--most people don't. Hence why the record companies
don't, either. Sure, they shove a lot of crap down our throats, but
ultimately they've got to sell what people are going to buy, or they're
out of business.

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> everybody else, save your modular synths and analog tape recorders.
> I suspect that they will never go out of date....they'll keep
> coming back, like a black-bean burrito....:)

I'll agree with you on the modular synths--Nord or no Nord, you just
can't get the sound elsewhere. The analog tape thing, though, I don't
know...

I guess we're getting kind of off topic here, sorry...