"One Good Song"

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Sure stealing stuff off the net (that's what it is) is fun and everyone does it esp. me! But every justification I've seen of the practice is stupid. "Information wants to be free" fuck off back to Esalen Perry Barlow & take more acid "artists are so rich they can afford it" eat my fuc. However those excuses have some rudimentary philosophy behind them. The one that really annoys tho is "Why should we pay 14.99 for ONE GOOD SONG!"
Now think, has an album EVER existed that had one pure gem unavailable elsewhere and everything else complete irredeemable Hooverage? If it's a CD-by-one-artist then usually some of the other tracks will be near enough to the 'one good song' that u can get some enjoyment out of it rite? If it's a comp then the songs are usually chosen because they have some tenuous connection right? But if you go by the P2P fanatics' account, you'd imagine sinister record execs saying, "Let's deliberately put one classic on there and make everything else on the record asvomit-inducing as possible! Heh heh heh! Let's spend huge amounts of promotional dollars on ppl with only 3:40 worth of inspiration! Not like it'll make us or the artist look bad or anything, of course not! Our whole industry is devoted to making consumers feel like idiots! What, there's another almost-bearable track? Delete it! Hee hee hee, ve are horrible!" I mean, come on!
Tho I suspect that when ppl whine "Why should I [hint: NO REASON in the world u should do anything, if u want the song badly enough then quit bitching] pay full price for only ONE GOOD SONG" what they really mean is "the one song I want". Nothing wrong with that. I suspect tho that the linguistic ambiguity gives away ppl's conflation of "good" w/ "what I want", which is at the heart of everything wrong with everything today esp. in the USA where anything less than solipsism constitutes outreach worthy of canonisation/lynching

― dave q, Wednesday, 22 January 2003 11:55 (twenty-one years ago) link

(of course in my dark heart I truly believe that most ppl are too stupid to have an opinion and ANY music heard by them is a gift from something far greater than themselves that should be treated accordingly reverentially but that's just me)

― dave q, Wednesday, 22 January 2003 11:56 (twenty-one years ago) link

I think Dave should have his own board. What say you, guys?

― Nordicskillz (Nordicskillz), Wednesday, 22 January 2003 12:45 (twenty-one years ago) link

what about ppl who still buy singles instead of full-length albums? i mean i still know people who do, on vinyl at least.

at the conference i was at a few weeks back, a few of the big ideas the record execs had to 'stay competive' included a) keep establishing music industry-run networks that 'allow' ppl to burn their own CDs, paying 99 cents per mp3 (that still makes an album about $12, hah!) and b) packaging all CDs like DVDs with 'extra features' (film clips etc), seems kinda dumb to me

― geeta (geeta), Wednesday, 22 January 2003 13:01 (twenty-one years ago) link

Maybe people don't want to OWN music anymore.

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Wednesday, 22 January 2003 14:53 (twenty-one years ago) link

Now think, has an album EVER existed that had one pure gem unavailable elsewhere and everything else complete irredeemable Hooverage?

That would be "Imaginos" by Blue Oyster Cult, I think. Possiblt Masters of Reality's 1st album was like this as well, but I can't remember, & don't have a copy anymore.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Wednesday, 22 January 2003 15:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

"Now think, has an album EVER existed that had one pure gem unavailable elsewhere and everything else complete irredeemable Hooverage?"...I direct you to the Jefferson album containing "My Baby Loves Lovin'". Now, clearly, that song itself is terrible, but that LP was my introduction to the concept of the albums you're referring to. I think I might have been ten years old. Since then I've purchased more than a few losers. Not since I could hear 'em first, though. I've given the major record industries so much money over my musicbuying years I DESERVE free previews, and better product out of them, because they flat out suck now. p.s, Dave you write good, I'd come to your board too.

― matt riedl (veal), Wednesday, 22 January 2003 21:41 (twenty-one years ago) link

Maybe people don't want to OWN music anymore.

i think you're bang on there, i think i feel that way a lot - i only seem to buy CDs or records if i have the intention of sampling them or maybe playing them out eventually...i have no other motive to purchase them anymore

― stevem (blueski), Wednesday, 22 January 2003 21:43 (twenty-one years ago) link

" Maybe people don't want to OWN music anymore."

but there sure ARE 'people' who want to 'own' music
(for records companies do exist)

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Thursday, 23 January 2003 04:53 (twenty-one years ago) link

six years pass...

If said artist isn't able to produce anything but one single good song, then said act doesn't deserve to sell anything at all. Not even that one good song. Quality is about skills, not luck.

― Geir Hongro, Thursday, 28 May 2009 10:48 (fourteen years ago) link

Hmm . . .

― Quality is about skills, not luck. (Daniel, Esq.), Thursday, 28 May 2009 10:51 (fourteen years ago) link

On second thought, no.

― Daniel, Esq., Thursday, 28 May 2009 10:53 (fourteen years ago) link

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