I can see where you are coming from Jason but I do buy a lot of stuff
from Beatport and Bleep mostly odd tracks from EPs and Albums where I
don't like the full thing and while it may not appeal to heads I know
teenagers who don't own a single piece of Vinyl or a CD but do own more
than one hard drive with their collection on - I also buy stuff that
you can't get on vinyl/cd - DMZ for example. I buy the odd pop track
off iTunes but if you look at the charts for electronic music on iTunes
you see that they haven't changed for months - Born Slippy has been in
the top ten since they started - so that gives you a big clue about who
buys there...
As for the future, I think there's room for all formats and paying a
couple of quid for a wav is a better format than vinyl ;)
my 2 cents
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On 18 Aug 2006, at 08:38, Jason Brunton wrote:
Alright peepz- a quick question for the more tech-savvy minded amongst
you:
How many people actually buy digital download music whether from more
mainstream portals like I-tunes or more specialist ones like
Bleep.com?? I've spoken to quite a few label owners (all of them from
smaller independant labels) but nobody seems to be making much income
from it- any thoughts on the the current, and future, state of the
format?
I can't actually imagine ever paying £1 for a track in a less than
perfect format and albums seem pretty expensive when you compare them
to a normal CD which has cover art etc- I'm not totally against the
idea but it's not really doing it for me at the moment. What chall
think?
cheers
Jason
