[aldo_14]

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/11/26/bpi_uk_music_stats_q3_04/

UK CD album shipments break Q3 record
In the 12 months to the end of September 2004, overall album sales were up 2.1 per cent, suggesting UK consumers are still into purchasing albums. Since that's a revenue increase, and retail prices for CDs have fallen - 60 per cent of CDs cost under a tenner - it's clear consumers are also buying more units than before.

[Taristin]

Cheaper CD's = more sales.

Expensive CD's = More Piracy.

[Sesquipedalian]

Makes sense to me.

[Liberator]

What the Music Industry hasn't yet realized is that if they don't make crap, people will buy records.  There's only so much market space for 50cent/Spears@Co clones to fill before customers get sick of the same thing over and over again.

[Nuke]

indeed. the us music industre has to have its head surgically removed from its ass.

[Ford Prefect]

Making art into an industry is inherently a nonsensical idea.

[Eviscerator]

Ah yes, one more thing to ignorantly blame on the US something or another. The oversimplification of reality totally amazes me at times.

[Ford Prefect]

Not only that, America stole one of my socks and drank the last of my Vanilla Coke.

[Knight Templar]

Originally posted by aldo_14
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/11/26/bpi_uk_music_stats_q3_04/

UK CD album shipments break Q3 record

Exactly the same with the movie industry. The industries aren't whining about losing money, but about not taking as much of our money.

[Grey Wolf]

Originally posted by Ford Prefect
Not only that, America stole one of my socks and drank the last of my Vanilla Coke.

So you're complaining about them preventing you from drinking poison?

[Ford Prefect]

Vanilla Coke is one of the most refreshing things in the world.

[Grey Wolf]

I'm assuming you also drink chlorine bleach laced with arsenic and lead?

[Bobboau]

yeah, it's right up there with sodium hydroxcide and molten soder

[Ace]

Originally posted by Bobboau
yeah, it's right up there with sodium hydroxcide and molten soder

So 'dats why it's called "soder pap" down 'ere in da south!

[Nuke]

i drink that cheap brand of coke they sell at walmart and add my own synthetic vanella. then i take a shot of that and pour it into a 24 oz glass of rum.

[Clave]

What the hell is soder?

But anyway go iTunes!

[Martinus]

[color=66ff00]Think he meant solder.

The thing that surprises me more is not how quickly threads degenerate into america bashing but how eager people are to do it.
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[aldo_14]

Originally posted by Eviscerator
Ah yes, one more thing to ignorantly blame on the US something or another. The oversimplification of reality totally amazes me at times.

The US record industry does need it's head removed from its arse, though.  Not because they're American, but because they're arseholes.

This story, however, is from the slightly less litigous BPI, not the RIAA.  Where the hell all this pullaver came from, I do not know.

[vyper]

[q]The thing that surprises me more is not how quickly threads degenerate into america bashing but how eager people are to do it.[/q]
Well it's not like there's a democratic recourse to the US' actions.

But I don't think thats the point here...

[Rictor]

Originally posted by Liberator
What the Music Industry hasn't yet realized is that if they don't make crap, people will buy records.  There's only so much market space for 50cent/Spears@Co clones to fill before customers get sick of the same thing over and over again.