Full FeedOne musician’s opinion: let artists lock their albums in iTunes
The NME is reporting that Guy Garvey of Elbow is against the practice of downloading only certain songs off an album in iTunes instead of downloading the whole album.
Accodring to Garvey, it’s not about the money;
“I’d rather people went ripped the whole thing for free than got the individual tracks for 79p each, you know what I mean, there’s no point in doing what we do (otherwise).”
Garvey feels that the practice is killing the idea of the album as an art form. That’s why he wants iTunes to let artists be able to lock their albums. Currently iTunes and other music download stores allow for certain tracks to be available only with purchase of the full album, but iTunes (or more specifically Apple) doesn’t allow for artists to allow only album sales.
The two comments to the article both agree with Garvey, and so do I. Downloading individual tracks is great for EPs where you just want the B-sides. But for full-length albums, if you like the artist enough, just buy the whole album, if only for the economies of scale aspect of it. Maybe bands could release just radio edits of singles, so that if fans want the original versions of the songs, then they have to buy the album.
Read [NME.com]
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Are you kidding me??
There is a very good reason we don’t want entire albums most of the time. Aside from the $, there is our time… Our time is valuable and we don’t like to waist in mediocre “Fills”.
Make good “Albums” and we’ll buy it. I’m sure we all have Pink Floyd’s The Wall, but I sure in hell don’t want an entire album from most bands. Specially one hit wonders!
on March 16, 2008 at 03:53 AM - LINKPretty funny really!...