I fully believe that Steve Jobs knew about this prior to his write-up earler in the week.

I’ll support Steve and EMI, by exclusively purchasing their wares if this gets some traction.

Jason,

emusic.com – high[er than itunes] bitrate, mp3, and the pricing you seek.

indi’s yes, but I’ve been finding artists that I like as good as my old favorites and even more than the current level of pap on the box these days…

I tried emusic for a while a although I applaud their effort to sell music without DRM, I just couldn’t find enough music I liked each month to remain a member. I really don’t buy a lot of music on a regular basis so I didn’t really like the subscription deal.

I really would like it if emusic had the option to buy individual songs without a subscription like iTunes even if they charged a little more per song.

People can barely make a full album of music even in vinyl format, which is apprx 30 mins of music.

This 30 minutes takes MUCHO money to record. Any proper album is expensive to record, that’s just how it is. And consumers want to act like this is not a fact. A lot of major labels are signing cheap new school talent that have fully integrated cheap digital technology which promotes lower overhead for them. No longer does the album advance go to recording albums, but it goes to their pockets. Most of the stuff on the radio is made in their bedroom studios.. FACT.

This doesnt mean its THE RIGHT WAY, but this is how they are tyring to sell it. It sounds like shit, and their music doesn’t sound bad on mp3’s cause it was made in digital. Take a good analog recording coverted to a high quality digital (which is a compromise already but acceptable), then that to low quaity mp3. Damn, it’s shit.

The majors think the people cant tell anyway. This is because most music made today is made cheaply, so everyone is becoming accustom to this sound. So now they are going to sell you something you don’t even physically own, a low quality version of it, which is an insult to any intelligent person.

A real analog recording, captured on high quality digital is a whole other story. This costs money, and after everything involved to get a physical product to you, paying up to 15 dollars for a cd, isn’t bad, if the music is great, the packaging is great, and it’s a memorable piece that represents the artists right in every sense. Most music people buy is made for commercial purposes only.

Now, consumers are promised with unlimited time space. I bet these same consumers expect artists to pump out a 5 hour album, because their new digital format can hold it.

The reality is, music sucks today. It’s cheap. Even music that wasn’t too good in the 60’s to 80’s wasn’t that offensive. You could still sense a level of creativity, originality, and recording practices. Today, it’s a cheap program with cheap samples. Anyone who thinks a kick is a kick is a kick, is plain stupid. But thats all they play on the radio today. You have nerdy rock engineers digitally mastering rock and rap. It all sounds like the same homogenized music.

So now that music sucks, and this same music is the only music which gets commercial coverage, and what most people are even AWARE OF. This becomes “the music scene”. Whatever they put into the marketing machine, is THE SCENE.

So the average consumer now believes, no one else can successfully make a 30 minute album, its just all about singles, or the “hot song”. Itunes ran with this, and now they are TRYING to create a music society of short attention spanned untalented people with more assistants than songs. Majors are playing along with this, and are the ones who still get features on itunes. They know they put out horrible acts, and this is why they are trying to implement this change.

Mp3’s are shit, period. If you take a heavy bassed analog electronic track, then squash it to 128, 192, even 300+ it’s not going to have a balanced bass.

So because of the presentation of the MINORITY of musicians, which seem to be the MAJORITY, everyone is subjected pump release their albums in low quality, which for new bands, is a horrible way to stand out. Then they must sell their albums for 1 dollar?

I dont know what people think these days, but its harder to advertise online than it is offline. In the real world, you can put your posters up, you can make your album artwork bold, you can pass out cds, you can do all types of HUMAN things which BRING PEOPLE TOGETHER PHYSICALLY. Online, there is no standout, everyone has digital artwork which never hits paper, and if you expect to get promoted, you better be shaking hands with itunes, and have a following. No one searches for unknowns, and the only way to promote an unknown (which is probably better than the knowns) is to have money.

Real analog music and physical high quality digital sound BETTER. There is no need to change it, get off your computers, stop being geeks. Buy an album with loud color art, and put it on your wall so it changes your mood.

Mp3’s further encourages the majors to pump out the same bullshit which is depleting society slowly but surely with negative energy.

Why not sign bands who can make 30+ min albums that can keep your attention, have good artwork, and packaging, with memorable collectors pieces. Do you really think you’ll be trippin on the format if you cant get the album off your mind?

This is pretty similar to electronic voting ballots, you NEED PHYSICAL RECORDS. Humans are analog being, BE ANALOG. Pick up a crate of records, move, feel, touch. People are becoming so lazy, it actually seems like its going to cause a split between humans.