I’ve been itching to go to a music store these past few months to get a copy of Lady Gaga’s Born This Way album but for some reasons piling one after the other, I didn’t get to. And now I did and the experience has changed significantly. Stores have closed one by one and those who are left struggle. They now resort to selling Magic Sing and other types of videoke paraphernalia, which I don’t think is bad.
I remember I was in sixth grade when I purchased cassette copies of Alanis Morisette’s Jagged Little Pill and the Spice Girls albums. I didn’t want to mention the boyband tapes I had before. :) The prices of foreign artists’ CDs still range from P450 to P800 depending if it has DVD copies of their live performances. OPM musicians suffer the most. Some of their CDs cost measly a hundred pesos yet they still fail to sell.
In the Philippines, the enemy of music artists then was the “pirates.” Now even the traditional or “analog” pirates themselves are in stiff competition with the internet. Watching movies need not require you a DVD. All you need is a computer and a decent ISP. Google it and you can stream it effortlessly. In less than 30 minutes, one of my office colleagues was able to download Linkin Park’s A Thousand Sun. I forgot who mentioned it, I’m sorry, but it’s like we’re selling apples to an orchard now, a record company executive said.
Mike Shinoda once blogged that if you support a musician, you must buy a copy of their album. It’s to ensure they’ll be to make music in the future. It makes sense to me and so I have “original” copies of their albums starting with Hybrid Theory all the way to A Thousand Suns. In the music stores I visited, I was glad to see a shelf row dedicated to LP’s albums. It means their albums fare well locally.
Then again, change is inevitable. You have to adapt to it less you want to become obsolete. And so musicians tour more and sell several types of merchandise to make ends meet. Authors are now turning to e-books.
Everything is still up for grabs and there is no definite business model yet to make sense of. I think there might never be moving forward.
I remember I was in sixth grade when I purchased cassette copies of Alanis Morisette’s Jagged Little Pill and the Spice Girls albums. I didn’t want to mention the boyband tapes I had before. :) The prices of foreign artists’ CDs still range from P450 to P800 depending if it has DVD copies of their live performances. OPM musicians suffer the most. Some of their CDs cost measly a hundred pesos yet they still fail to sell.
In the Philippines, the enemy of music artists then was the “pirates.” Now even the traditional or “analog” pirates themselves are in stiff competition with the internet. Watching movies need not require you a DVD. All you need is a computer and a decent ISP. Google it and you can stream it effortlessly. In less than 30 minutes, one of my office colleagues was able to download Linkin Park’s A Thousand Sun. I forgot who mentioned it, I’m sorry, but it’s like we’re selling apples to an orchard now, a record company executive said.
Mike Shinoda once blogged that if you support a musician, you must buy a copy of their album. It’s to ensure they’ll be to make music in the future. It makes sense to me and so I have “original” copies of their albums starting with Hybrid Theory all the way to A Thousand Suns. In the music stores I visited, I was glad to see a shelf row dedicated to LP’s albums. It means their albums fare well locally.
Then again, change is inevitable. You have to adapt to it less you want to become obsolete. And so musicians tour more and sell several types of merchandise to make ends meet. Authors are now turning to e-books.
Everything is still up for grabs and there is no definite business model yet to make sense of. I think there might never be moving forward.
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