An interesting article at
http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/article7092090.ece
The author, Peter Phapides starts off with a question
What happens when you get all your music free?
Then he goes on to tell us. As a music journo, quite well known in the UK, he gets a lot of music for free - without even asking or looking for it.
A couple of interesting quotes from that article....
“I wanted to start a conversation about the value of music,” says Niamh Byrne, the woman charged with setting up Music Matters. She has been with Universal as head of creative content for three years, but before that spent 13 years in Blur’s management team. “We are all aware, at some level, that the situation is unsustainable. But where do you take it from there? What do we all agree on? Well, at least we can proceed from a consensus that music matters. That’s a start.”
My 15-year-old nephew has roughly 8,000 songs on his iPod, amassed over 16 months. How many did he pay for? About 30, he says. His knowledge of music is spread more thinly than mine was at his age. You hear something cool and you rip it on to your iPod. I tell him how thrilled I used to get when, at 7 or so, my mother gave me five 2p coins so that I could go to the phone box outside my parents’ fish-and-chip shop and call Dial-a-Disc — a British Telecom “service” that amounted to hearing a Top 20 hit on the other end of the line. He thinks I’m making it up. How could anyone ever be so desperate to hear a song?
By making a monetary investment in something, you also make an investment of faith in it. The nature of your relationship, from that moment on, has changed.
