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Some Bands Say No to iTunes
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Hey, Metallica can't be that greedy other wise they would join iTMS which, apparently, lets bands make bank compared to what they are pulling in on "old school" CD sales alone.
Lethal
No singles from Metallica
Stating that they only want to sell albums for creative reasons is complete and utter BS. In Aus HMV online sells cd singles from St. Anger. where does the holier than thou creative ****e emanate from??
See the attached link if you doubt,
http://www.hmv.com.au/v4/search/adv..._to=2003&availability=All&price_less_than=500
Stating that they only want to sell albums for creative reasons is complete and utter BS. In Aus HMV online sells cd singles from St. Anger. where does the holier than thou creative ****e emanate from??
See the attached link if you doubt,
http://www.hmv.com.au/v4/search/adv..._to=2003&availability=All&price_less_than=500
No iTMS singles from the Chillies
See metallica these artists are also talking about creative ****e. Again on HMV aus you can buy singles , what is their prob with iTMS. Their creative heads are obviously so far up wherever that they can no longer smell the coffee.
http://www.hmv.com.au/v4/search/adv..._to=2003&availability=All&price_less_than=500
See metallica these artists are also talking about creative ****e. Again on HMV aus you can buy singles , what is their prob with iTMS. Their creative heads are obviously so far up wherever that they can no longer smell the coffee.
http://www.hmv.com.au/v4/search/adv..._to=2003&availability=All&price_less_than=500
this article was the last straw for me... I'm only commenting on it now because of a rather heated discussion with a friend who still is a big fan of Craptallica (he's also a PC user, so don't hold it against him ).
The whole representitive body of work tripe is complete horse-****e, since these same bands, and their respective management and record labels send out huge payola checks to make sure that one or two (rarely) songs from an album are on an hourly rotation in many station's playlists. The other fact has been echoed numerous times throughout the comments, in that a good deal of income from their record sales come from singles... which are probably the same songs that consumers are hearing on the radio.
The problems lies therein, that these bands and their "handlers" should be pushing for airplay of an entire album throughout a daily or weekly playlist, instead of one or two songs. If they want to cry about iTMS not selling entire albums... well, that's sounds like the pot calling the kettle black.
As a classical musician, it makes me bitter that I spend more than three-quarters of my life perfecting and honing my talents, and will make in one lifetime what they might pick up from one night in some podunk arena. But, at least I'll die old, happy and secure... these people will probably never make it to old age, and will spend whatever they make before they realize what happened.
). The whole representitive body of work tripe is complete horse-****e, since these same bands, and their respective management and record labels send out huge payola checks to make sure that one or two (rarely) songs from an album are on an hourly rotation in many station's playlists. The other fact has been echoed numerous times throughout the comments, in that a good deal of income from their record sales come from singles... which are probably the same songs that consumers are hearing on the radio.
The problems lies therein, that these bands and their "handlers" should be pushing for airplay of an entire album throughout a daily or weekly playlist, instead of one or two songs. If they want to cry about iTMS not selling entire albums... well, that's sounds like the pot calling the kettle black.
As a classical musician, it makes me bitter that I spend more than three-quarters of my life perfecting and honing my talents, and will make in one lifetime what they might pick up from one night in some podunk arena. But, at least I'll die old, happy and secure... these people will probably never make it to old age, and will spend whatever they make before they realize what happened.
Originally posted by eromitlab
this article was the last straw for me... I'm only commenting on it now because of a rather heated discussion with a friend who still is a big fan of Craptallica (he's also a PC user, so don't hold it against him
The whole representitive body of work tripe is complete horse-****e, since these same bands, and their respective management and record labels send out huge payola checks to make sure that one or two (rarely) songs from an album are on an hourly rotation in many station's playlists. The other fact has been echoed numerous times throughout the comments, in that a good deal of income from their record sales come from singles... which are probably the same songs that consumers are hearing on the radio.
The problems lies therein, that these bands and their "handlers" should be pushing for airplay of an entire album throughout a daily or weekly playlist, instead of one or two songs. If they want to cry about iTMS not selling entire albums... well, that's sounds like the pot calling the kettle black.
As a classical musician, it makes me bitter that I spend more than three-quarters of my life perfecting and honing my talents, and will make in one lifetime what they might pick up from one night in some podunk arena. But, at least I'll die old, happy and secure... these people will probably never make it to old age, and will spend whatever they make before they realize what happened.
Well, at least you aren't denying your bitterness.
Lethal
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Well, of the top of my head, here are the ones that I know are on iTunes:
Nirvana
Rage Against The Machine
Sum 41
System of A Down
Pearl Jam
(I 'm sure more are too.)
And you can rip to AAC
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BTW-I swear that I've seen International Superhits! and Green Day's newer album on iMS at some time