"THE ALBUM is OBSELETE...we must sell SUBSCRIPTIONS to MUSIC like CABLE to SURVIVE"

[Air Nikes N Hats]

Artist don't need labels anymore and they know this. Like the rest of you in the thread have stated...companies have been stealing from artists for decades. They had their chance in the Napster era to capitalize but they laughed it off as a non threat. If your an artist who still signs with these major labels.....shame on you. Those are the kinds who are lazy and want someone else to do the legwork. If that's you.....then you don't deserve to reap the rewards....learn about the Internet, become a pro at social media....have some business and common sense and you can do very well.

 

[stealthbomber]

I dont even have a cd player besides my xbox

play em in my car

the quality of cds is immaculate

 

[Artificial Intelligence]

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[Diyhai]

play em in my car

the quality of cds is immaculate

switchin cds smh
rather have everything on my phone

 

[DirtyMoney]

I got a great way to make money off of music. Give it away free and make money off of ads.

Think about it. An artist could have a website where they would have all their music. New singles would be unavailable to download but free to listen to. That's mad hits because the website would be the only place to hear it. Ads on the site. Pandora/radio type ads every few songs. When the album drops make it available to download free and you could have ads packaged in with the rar file and maybe even have ads attached to the end of songs like interludes. Or even during the song like instead of "Dramatic" it could be like "Pepsi".

It might be annoying for us but I'm looking at it from the music industry's end if they wanna make money.

They could even press 1,000 "limited edition" CDs and people could pay $25 to have one of the few hard copies in the world.

You gotta be innovative. If you made conestoga wagons back in the day when Henry Ford rolled out his first automobile you had to adjust or get left behind.

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Wont work.

 

[The_King_of_Everything]

Yeah cd quality still beats mp3.

I remember when I bought watch the throne and played the cd in the whip for the first time

 

[↓R↑LYB]

I buy very few albums because the majority of music is wack. The only dope album I've copped all year is Life Is Good. Krit album fell short, Self Made 2 I wasn't feeling, I downloaded Cruel Summer and probably ain't even gonna listen to it.

I mean, music is just soulless nowadays. I'm cool rocking my collection of old joints.

 

[Capitol]

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