Napster May Cut Into CD Sales

Napster isn't cutting into cd sales what is hurting cd sales is the fact an artist in the 90s can only make a couple of good songs that usually turn into singles therefore yes in some cases cd singles sales may be down but not complete cd albums. My opinion is most of todays artist make some popular catchy single that people will download from napster rather than buy the single because they know the single is not remembeable, they may not have bought the single anyway. Like someone who may like metallica who I not real happy with after black album music from them would buy the cd because they know metallica isn't in the buisness of making that million selling single they sell million selling albums. Eminem, Britney Spears etc none will remember in 10 years no matter how much you may think you like them now. However musician like metallica, megadeth, kenny rogers, beastie boys, danzig, johnny cash, bob seagar, dianna ross, ac/dc, beach boys, Ozzy osbourne, ronnie james dio, slayer and others have had long carreers of 10 years or more they have proven their musicianship and I bet person who download some these artists songs like them then go buy the cd albums, like some of the new metal acts out there like kittie and drain sth I downloaded about 3 of their songs like them so I went and bought the album now kittie I knew I would probbaly like but drain sth If I had not downloaded the mp3 I would have never bought the album in less they got played on radio or tv but that will never happen because the youth of today no longer like rock and metal they rather hear rap which many can't possiblly relate because they are white, and grew up middle class or better and rap is singing about the old hood, bumm, homeless, drug selling, gangs and buy 40s because couldn't afford anything else. Now rock metal any one can relate to being po'ed at your parents, goverment, religion causing Anarchy or enjoying good times, partying, sex, etc, now anyone can relate.
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There are so many factors involved in the increase or decrease of sales near universities.

1) The price of college itself keeps going up
2) The prevalence of CD Burners... college kids are sharing with each other
3) Napster probably does impact the sales of singles in a negative way. That's because singles suck for your average person. Especially when it's easier and more convenient to get an mp3. "Hey let's put this CD in! It has 1 song! Then we can take it out and put in another one song CD!"
4) Online sales. Perhaps people are finding out about more bands and groups through napster that AREN'T AVAILABLE in most stores. Like Chuck D prophesizes, there will be more and more bands and less top 40. Napster is the new radio for the aughts decade.

I love jumping to conclusions, can I join the RIAA!??

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In one year I´ve bought 6 cd´s I think. If it hadn´t been for napster it would only be one cd. NIN´s the Fragile and four Beck albums is on my shelv because of mp3´s(napster etc blah blah blah). Before that I bought less than one cd each year so stop bitching RIAA. Almost forgot... mp3 quality is pretty bad compared to a CD when you play it on high volume on your stereo.

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Am I the only one happy as hell to see Pearl Jam right behind Britney? K, nobody can beat out Britney, but at least a group of grungy bastards gave that cunt a run for her money...

Damn it, imagine if Pearl Jam had topped Britney in sales...

The heart and soul of the music-buying public may still be beating.

*hawkeye*
(new PJ OWNS.)
(maybe it's all the fairweather fans hoping for Last Kiss2.)

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Well isnt that fucking blatantly obvious?!?

Here in the UK, where the average CD price (for an album) is around 15quid (dont laugh...) I dont see WHY someone should pay that much money for a music CD when the musician is getting about 2-10% of that amount.

The network admins here at my Uni agree, they love the fact that napster is pissing on record companies, but hate the fact that the bandwidth is being eaten, and this is really the only reason I can see (apart from metallicunt) why people should stop using napster.

My standard quake ping has gone from 30 to around 80-100 since napster started off here, and the divx revolution isnt really helping.

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now i bet there gonna find some sort of problem with that....

"im not sure im comfortable with the use of the word smear..."

Anytime you have a discussion that involves music of any type, never fails, somebody shows how cool they are by listing half a dozen obscure bands that are their 'favorites'.

"HEY LOOK AT ME! IM NO SELL OUT! NOTHING I LISTEN TO IS MAINSTREAM! THIS IS REAL MUSIC MAN!"

Of coarse if any of the bands are worth a shit, they breakthough and get a record deal. Then the same person brings up how they were a fan of such and such before they 'sold out'.

Man I wish I was one of those guys... you are so cool.

i'm not going to bother reading this thread.

how many 300+ post napster threads do we really need?

apparently at least one more.

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-Dr Dre

I find it highly disturbing that a small minority of the public insist
on pirating/hacking the art that I have worked so hard to produce,
With the combined efforts of other artist in my employ such as Eminem, I am determined to bring a stop to this.Napster is violating the law,free distribution of copy written material must be stopped.


-Dr Dre

Oh yeah :)
I know the websites a piece of shit and only works at 1024....

Yeah, I'm sure buying CDs online had NOTHING to do with this drop... :) How stupid does the RIAA think we are?

with the number of 3dfx/napster articles in the past few weeks its a wonder that the Shack itself isnt responsible for loss in sales do to overall network traffic affecting the various online music retail sites offering affordable music and great selectio..... what? Oh sorry... it was all a dream....

"This demonstrates the importance of protecting our sole controll and profit model which is the retail-equivalence of robbery"

..."whats your latest hit brother?" -public enemy

RIAA sucks ass... what a bunch of bitches... Metallica and Dr. Dre completely lost my respect... actually, I never had any for Dr. Dre, but Metallica has lost my respect! Where's the Napster 209 when you need it?

In the end, we'll all be paying less for more.

OR ELSE! :)

"4% drop in sales in the past two years". Whatever! Any of these people ever taken a statistics class? 4% is usually within margin of error for a good statistical sample. Bogus data used by the RIAA to prop up their pathetic attack on the digitial revolution.

heh good call, this seems like a good official thread for the day.

I think the man should post more, he's always funny.

jesus, all the university bandwidth problems are fucking amazing to me.

At my university, there is a LAN. There are people smart enough to write LAN search engines (there are a bunch) and there are people nice enough to share their mp3 directories.

I talked to someone at virginia tech. she was like "yeah we use napster a lot here, but it eats the bandwidth." I asked her why people don't just share mp3's locally instead of trying to go outside the university, which would be much faster and more reliable anyway. She was like "well people are afraid the university is going to crack down"

so, by discouraging people from sharing mp3 files over a network, VT has it's bandwidth eaten by napster, which is worse.

I swear. If schools (1) educated their students on how to use a LAN and (2) educated students about their rights about what they can and cannot share on the network, there would be no university bandwidth problem because there will be MUCH less need for people to be running napster.