This Just In: The Music Companies are figuring out MORE ways to piss you off
Back around 1999, this wonderful little program called Napster, not sure if you heard about it, decided to grace cyberspace with its presence. For all us poor kids who couldn't afford to pay $15 for a subpar album started to dance with joy. We could now (along with the advent of the CD-R) make our own CD's for our listening pleasure with the songs that we wanted to hear instead of what the radio or MTV told us to listen to. (Invariably, most of the songs on this new breed of "mixtape" consisted mostly of top 40 songs)
As our generation passed from high school to college, many of us, myself included were getting a taste of high speed internet for the first time. Oh glory days! I downloaded song after song after song, and it seemed like the good times would never end. (Once you hit 1000 on your downloaded playlist you because really cool)
However, since the beginning the record companies were very displeased by this phenomenon. Spearheaded by former bad boys-turned company schills, Metallica, there was a massive campaign by the industry to do away with this illegal swapping of songs.
OK, unless you been in a cave or on a ranch in montana where "The Internet" is the mesh lining that comes inside your swimsuit, you already know this.
For the most part, the record companies have been somewhat successful at cracking down on the illegal trading. Towards the beginning of 2004, I personally made the switch from downloading music back to original way of going to Bullmoose Records in downtown Portsmouth and selecting a CD to purchase, and then getting mocked by the uber-cool kids that work in said record shop because they know way more about what music I think is good than I know. And I was actually quite happy with this (in some respects i'm quite old fashioned). I liked supporting artists that don't have as much publicity as MTV bands do. I like looking at the album art on the cover and inside, and I like the fact that the commercial CDs are way more durable that copied ones. But then the good old folks at the record company pulled a fast one on me....
As a way to try and "lure" consumers back to hard CD's instead of MP3s, they started coming up with some new "innovative" ideas. They offer special editions that come with special access to fan sites you can only get through CDs, and sometimes bonus little DVDs were added. But I didn't care about that stuff, I just wanted the music. Then some dumbass motherfucker decided "Hey, wouldn't it be cool if we put the CD and DVD on the SAME DISC?" And of course the other retard executives in the room said "Oh Johnson, then we'd have to make all the consumers switch from CD players to DVD players for all their audio stuff. Not even we, the all powerful record company can do that." And to this the first idiot replied, "Well how about we put a CD on one side, and a DVD on the other, and call it DualDisc."
Actually...not an entirely bad idea. However, it turns out that it's a terrible idea. Here's the problem. THEY ARE TOO FREAKIN WIDE. Your average CD is very slim, and it's receptacle in the CD player is usually just a tad wider. Now the DualDisc has both CD and DVD on it and this makes it jus a little bit wider. The FAQ site provided in the link states that it will work in all but a few players. However, I have never gotten it to work in anything other than a computer or a CD player built after fall 2004. They screwed me over again. SOMETIMES, I can get my new Franz Ferdinand or Oasis dualdisc to work in my car, but often times I just get incredibly frustrated with it. I usually put it in the player, it tries to read it, then spits it back out wither a little error message on the player. One time I drove all the way from North Hampton to Durham, about 30 minutes, give or take, just putting it in, getting the error and then trying again. They refuse to work. You might say "HAHA STUPID YOU ARE PUTTING IT IN WITH THE WRONG SIDE, DVD'S WONT PLAY IN A CAR STEREO" but no, I am putting it in the right way. And another gripe about this stupid things is that they get all scratched when you look at them the wrong way. Now my DualDiscs wont even copy right in my computer because they are all scratched and nearly unreadable. With this latest "development" I truly think that the industry is trying to think of as many ways as humanly possible to frustrate what few remaining people are left buying albums. Hey....record companies and recording industry.....
As our generation passed from high school to college, many of us, myself included were getting a taste of high speed internet for the first time. Oh glory days! I downloaded song after song after song, and it seemed like the good times would never end. (Once you hit 1000 on your downloaded playlist you because really cool)
However, since the beginning the record companies were very displeased by this phenomenon. Spearheaded by former bad boys-turned company schills, Metallica, there was a massive campaign by the industry to do away with this illegal swapping of songs.
OK, unless you been in a cave or on a ranch in montana where "The Internet" is the mesh lining that comes inside your swimsuit, you already know this.
For the most part, the record companies have been somewhat successful at cracking down on the illegal trading. Towards the beginning of 2004, I personally made the switch from downloading music back to original way of going to Bullmoose Records in downtown Portsmouth and selecting a CD to purchase, and then getting mocked by the uber-cool kids that work in said record shop because they know way more about what music I think is good than I know. And I was actually quite happy with this (in some respects i'm quite old fashioned). I liked supporting artists that don't have as much publicity as MTV bands do. I like looking at the album art on the cover and inside, and I like the fact that the commercial CDs are way more durable that copied ones. But then the good old folks at the record company pulled a fast one on me....
As a way to try and "lure" consumers back to hard CD's instead of MP3s, they started coming up with some new "innovative" ideas. They offer special editions that come with special access to fan sites you can only get through CDs, and sometimes bonus little DVDs were added. But I didn't care about that stuff, I just wanted the music. Then some dumbass motherfucker decided "Hey, wouldn't it be cool if we put the CD and DVD on the SAME DISC?" And of course the other retard executives in the room said "Oh Johnson, then we'd have to make all the consumers switch from CD players to DVD players for all their audio stuff. Not even we, the all powerful record company can do that." And to this the first idiot replied, "Well how about we put a CD on one side, and a DVD on the other, and call it DualDisc."
Actually...not an entirely bad idea. However, it turns out that it's a terrible idea. Here's the problem. THEY ARE TOO FREAKIN WIDE. Your average CD is very slim, and it's receptacle in the CD player is usually just a tad wider. Now the DualDisc has both CD and DVD on it and this makes it jus a little bit wider. The FAQ site provided in the link states that it will work in all but a few players. However, I have never gotten it to work in anything other than a computer or a CD player built after fall 2004. They screwed me over again. SOMETIMES, I can get my new Franz Ferdinand or Oasis dualdisc to work in my car, but often times I just get incredibly frustrated with it. I usually put it in the player, it tries to read it, then spits it back out wither a little error message on the player. One time I drove all the way from North Hampton to Durham, about 30 minutes, give or take, just putting it in, getting the error and then trying again. They refuse to work. You might say "HAHA STUPID YOU ARE PUTTING IT IN WITH THE WRONG SIDE, DVD'S WONT PLAY IN A CAR STEREO" but no, I am putting it in the right way. And another gripe about this stupid things is that they get all scratched when you look at them the wrong way. Now my DualDiscs wont even copy right in my computer because they are all scratched and nearly unreadable. With this latest "development" I truly think that the industry is trying to think of as many ways as humanly possible to frustrate what few remaining people are left buying albums. Hey....record companies and recording industry.....
GO FUCK YOURSELF!!!
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