Wal-Mart is going to kill music one day.

[Kathryn]

did you watch South Park how there Was the Wal-Mart

[Carnage]

I tried to warn everyone but they threw me back in my room. once wal mart gets rid of its competition it will overprice everything and become filthy rich. or they will take control of the entire world market and control the world! i think theyd go with communism.

[Kathryn]

that's what happened to Cartman

[edczxcvbnm]

Well you don't remember correctly. The BPI took exactly the same stance as RIAA on illegal file sharing.

So are you saying Apple one day just decided they were going to sell music online. No. To do so they need the record companies that own the tracks to license companies like Apple to sell them, otherwise it is illegal. So it's safe to say third party aggregators wishing to sell music online needed record company involvement.

The thing I agree with you on is that the music industry did try to kill file downloading, like they did blank casettes, like they did blank C.D's and I'm sure they will do so again in the future because they are arrogant people who don't learn.

The fact is they once again are adapting. Check out the RIAA website for correct statistics. 1997 saw the original release of Napster and saw dollar value sales and unit sales down in the States by 2.4% and 6.5% repsectively. These figures then fluxuated ending on an upward trend by the year 2000, I found no evidence of the record sales that you suggest. Then the figures drop rather drastically. The reason these figures dropped can be partly attributed to illegal filesharing and partly attributed to the subsidised music available at supermarkets, of course there are other factors at work here. The fact is the RIAA has recorded profit increases over the last two years, the first time in 5 years they have achieved back to back increase, further proof that the music industry is in no danger whatsoever.

Whether its illegal filesharing or subsidised music at supermarkets, the music industry will inevitably prevail.

I am replying to this tomarrow when I am not quite so tired :P

[MecaKane]

Evanescence's cover of Korn's Thoughtless (they dropped the f-bomb a few times there) is just plain STUPID.

OHMANOHMANOHMANOHMAN
Better be good.

And they say a bit more than just , I'm sure it was way over anyone's head who would get upset over it.
And the last CD I got at Walmart was System of a Down which was $11, and unedited. Yay Canada.

[DMKA]

OHMANOHMANOHMANOHMAN
Better be good.

And they say a bit more than just , I'm sure it was way over anyone's head who would get upset over it.
And the last CD I got at Walmart was System of a Down which was $11, and unedited. Yay Canada.

Yeah, they also bitched about the song mentioning "rape". :rolleyes2

And apparently, Fox News thinks she's a solo artist and not part of a band, and that she's supposedly a satanic mistress.

I'm serious about all this, btw.

I've had KoRn's Untouchables since it came out, and I've heard the cover by Evanescence...it's not bad, pretty neat to hear someone cover it, much more a woman singing in the place of Johnathan Davis with somewhat of a dark elegance to the opening of the song.

But yeah, these people have been out to get me all my life, and they continue to attack everything I like.

[Rye]

If they think "omgz solo amy lee" is evil for saying rape, whore (she said it on another song), and dropping the f-bomb, than I think they need to go search for their kids stash of hidden Eminem CDs.

Seriously, those are all just words. I'd be more concerned about what those kids are doing when the parents aren't around.

EDIT: And I don't think the cover is stupid. :o I think the people moaning it's evil are stupid.

[DMKA]

What really gets me is no one will gripe at Christina or Britney for lyrics that are around the same level of not for 5 year olds, or worse. Personally none of those lyrics bother me, but for Yevon's sake, if you care about your kid hearing the word "ass" "whore" or "boob", look at what you're buying them...we shouldn't all have to suffer just because you don't want to pay attention to what your kid is doing, but rather have the world do it for you.

Of course, Wal Mart is "family oriented", so nothing unsuitable for your 5 year old could be in there, right?

[MoonsEcho]

for Yevon's sake

And I agree with everything you said there. And this really is a big part of all the problems, these parents who don't want to take the time to raise their own kids. Whenever something bad happens (school shootings, pre-teens killing each other, etc.) everyone points the finger at TV, music, and video games. Of course, no parent is going to raise a perfect child, and every child makes their mistakes and goes through rough stages while growing up, but you have to at least play a part in your child's life to help them along the way. You can't just sit around whining for this and that to be banned; that does no good. People wonder what's wrong with kids these days, well, this is what's wrong.

[Harvest Moon]

I'll tell you the same thing I told my mom about the almighty Wal-Mart.

The new world is inevitable. :evilking:

[lordblazer]

Yeah Walmart if none of the massiv emerchants stand up to them now will inevitably rule the world!!!

[Baloki]

Thank god we have more then one supermarket chain over here in the UK really...

[escobert]

Saying that Wal-Mart is going to kill the music industry is one of the dumbest things I've ever heard. I just don't see how that would possibly happen. I can't even think of anyone I know who buys music at Wal-Mart except for my stepmom, and that's 'cause she works there.

I agree and I know of noone who buys CDs from wal-mart except maybe my dad and he usually buys CDs at coconuts.

[lordblazer]

Thank god we have more then one supermarket chain over here in the UK really...

we do to in the USA but none of them wants to compete with walmart.Thats the only problem.

[GhandiOwnsYou]

Okay, what walmart are you guys shopping at with editted and Unedditted CD's? i have never EVER seen an unedited cd in there. The other thing is, you've got to remember you can only get so much music at walmart. that's where the Plan 9's of the world will always win out (Plan 9 = kickass local music place. 3 stories, 1 of cd's, 1 of used cd's, tapes and videos, 1 entirely of records in teh basement. tis much rockness.) Plan 9 has everything. edited, un edited, used, only copied once by a band that only lasted a week. if it has ever been put to plastic, it's in there. walmart has top 40 and some country and classic rock to please the hillbillies. so yeah, music does NOT depend on walmart. pop music depends on walmart. can you dig that, SUCKA!