From Colin Sent Mon, Dec 15th 1997, 13:21
From Colin Sent Mon, Dec 15th 1997, 13:21
what the f*ck? I'm all for the ' small is beautiful ' economic theory, but your floating on another planet as far as it relates to this topic. How many 12" that interest you does CDNow have? ______________________________ Reply Separator _________________________________ Subject: Re: (idm) Industrialsamplecorgouchbeat Author: "Franz Enmark" <xxxxxxx@xxxxxxxx.xxx> at AWT_INTERNET_PO Date: 12/14/97 12:21 AM We're getting quite off-topic, but I've just got to add something. 1997-12-12 Chris wrote: >Not that this really has any bearing on *anything*, but i actually >would rather pay a few extra $ (if it was actually necessary) at a >place like modernmusic or any of the other excellent mailorders we >all love than buy from some huge company like CDNOW (or even Best >Buy, as I recently mentioned that I bought stuffs there)... I just have to agree here, and also advice others to think about this. I don't find it morally right to buy from a huge major company like CDNOW just because you earn a couple of $ on a record. I always choose a small, independant company or label driven by idealists, eventhough I might get off with $10 less on a big one. (Big places often also drive totally disgusting work policies. They might not approve the workers to organise in unions, give em really shitty salarys or whatever. Nothing said about CDNOW, but this is not very uncommon, just know that) First of all, a huge firm is able to keep low prices because of the amount of records they're selling. Of course a small place like MFR or MM have to charge a little bit more (although they are keeping their prices really nifty) for the records because they are selling maybe 15 or 50 copies of something instead of 500 or 1000. There is not one single shop or mailorder who sells Spice Girls, Michael Bolton or Robert Miles because of the music. It's not about music. It's about money. All in the name of the mighty P-R-O-F-I-T. The diametric opposite of Modern Music or MFR. Ordering with these shit mailorders because it's $10 cheaper isn't (IMO) right in any way. Eventually it will just make it impossible for places like Modern Music to exist. Support these small ones if you want to be able to get the latest Boards of Canada 7" (or whatever) in the future. CDNOW won't sell it to you as they will soon notice that they're not making any money out of it. (Sorry Aran, just had to...:) Word, Fe. Oh yeah, and fear my grammar/spelling - plodulism!: http://gargamel.com/plod -->--> = ) - =-= = '''''''''' - - updated: various discog's., jega, dot, '''' -/ - - - ] '''''''' - - etc. go to: http://gargamel.com/frankie ''' = -.. =-= = '''908285' -