by Rodney » Tue Mar 22, 2011 12:16 pm
So let me get this straight, people are upset because we’re willing to charge them ten bucks to buy our music on a virtually indestructible format which is not only portable, but can be easily shared with others, and we’re not willing to charge them twenty bucks to buy our music on an antiquated, environmentally un-friendly, easily damaged, non-portable medium, that’s only currently enjoying a resurgence in popularity because either A) Someone was spanking it to an episode of Madmen when their attention was drawn to the shiny round object (I precinct the next trend will be nostalgia for the days when white people got the entire front of the bus to themselves) or B) since mp3’s have allowed anybody to have an eclectic music collection, they no longer feel like special little snowflakes because anybody can have access to their precious b-sides.
If you don’t fall into either of the two aforementioned categories , then I’m sure you can understand that I don’t want to passively enable the idiots who do by jumping onto a tend that’ll disappear once Justin Beiber gives an interview about how his music can only be appreciated on vinyl.
Rather than disparage us for not taking your money for something that brings you no value, why not give us a modicum of credit for standing up to a ridiculous, wasteful trend?
