retailer-exclusive material

[Drengur Grar]

The concept is very interesting. It is totally a huge marketing scheme. You can map out so many consumer patterns by having 'deals' like these. Exclusivity seems to be the most effective way to market music these days. People will do anything to have limited copies of anything.

[dagosto]

We are always living in the best of times and the worst of times. Peak-to-peak dude.

[lukedavo]

Well, market research dictates or at least tries to dictate, and thinks they predict all new trends. Maybe so, paying people who dont care, to give you the answers your looking for, is a very good research technique (or lack there-of) especially when it comes to making money. So, use em, abuse em, and reap the rewards, god bless America, and god bless capitalism.

[smopo24]

hey, if paying for "yes men" to tell you what you want to hear is good enough for our president, it's good enough for the recording industry. they both fail to recognise a disaster that has taken place untill it's too late (btw, you are doing a good job brownie!)!

[Caturtle]

I would just download this "special" release (if i felt like it) from my favorite peer to peer file sharing network.

Anyone who buys these "special" releases probably still reads newspapers too.

If I download an album and I like it, I generally buy it. I would just download it and not buy it in this case.

I win

[mikegee]

Originally Posted by smopo24

it's nice to get an album with bonus tracks, or an extra disk for that new concert dvd. how do you feel when an artist you enjoy takes a deal with a retailer for some kind of exclusive that leaves the rest of us out in the cold (u2 with their live in chicago disk, garth brooks with his entire catalog, alanis morrisette with her acoustic version of jagged little pill, u2 again with their 7 track bonus disk from target, xrt's live cds that are only avaliable through tower records, etc), and makes it harder for independant record stores to be competitive. how do you feel about this pratice? what about retribution? should artists be penalized because they engage in these pratices?

aha the retribution, yes... i think it would be peer to peer/Internet downloading... if you limit the consumers ability to buy something legitimately, it gives them good reason or at least good rationalization to just download it, another example of record labels shortsighted viewpoints... like, the record labels marketing geniuses are wooping it up at their big celebration party, and yet, the sales tank... woopsie!!!

[smopo24]

Originally Posted by mikegee

aha the retribution, yes... i think it would be peer to peer/Internet downloading... if you limit the consumers ability to buy something legitimately, it gives them good reason or at least good rationalization to just download it, another example of record labels shortsighted viewpoints... like, the record labels marketing geniuses are wooping it up at their big celebration party, and yet, the sales tank... woopsie!!!

yes, it doesn't make me at all sympathetic to these artists (and labels too) complain about p2p downloading. what about people that don't have access to these places? i mean, it seems counter-intuitive to piss your fans off, and these pratices don't win you any popularity contests.....espically with competing retailers (who also stock your product).

[mikegee]

Originally Posted by smopo24

yes, it doesn't make me at all sympathetic to these artists (and labels too) complain about p2p downloading. what about people that don't have access to these places? i mean, it seems counter-intuitive to piss your fans off, and these pratices don't win you any popularity contests.....espically with competing retailers (who also stock your product).

ya. who knows, maybe they think of it like a "supply and demand" issue, so if their product is hard to find and difficult to buy, somehow it would make them more desirable? and create an industry buzz? it's still sucky, if ya ask me...

[McLean]

Don't forget about that local punk band and their exclusive retailing deal. You can only get their album from the trunk of the drummers car. What about these guys??? They would probebly kill their mom to have some super chain store sell their CDs. So as much as it does truely suck, I can not see any end to this madness in the future. However, downloading is going to give the big guys a big kick in the pants. Be careful though, it is illegal. We could all get a big kick in our pants. As technology grows, so does the way to track and punish the "criminals". You know, like those rowdy file sharers. Don't forget Big Brother IS watching.