Just read the updated CEO post. Must be getting LOTS of cancellations. You don't do that much justifying unless something drastic is happening.
nah. my guess is that the statements by these two labels were distorted, and emusic had to address the issue more deeply. what the emusic ceo and what the labels said yesterday can't both be true, and since the statements were issued basically at the same time, they didn't address each other.
what you're seeing, i think, is some pretty hardball -- and frankly unseemly -- actions by these labels. here's why, in part: they protect the specifics of their deals, and the negotiations leading up to them, behind confidentiality walls, and of course, distributors like emusic can't pierce that confidentiality, if they hope to lure labels to emusic. but with these statements, the labels are using those terms (incl. confidentiality) as both sword and shield. emusic took a higher road in its initial statement, but now it feels compelled to respond.
i don't think i'm making any shocking leaps of faith with this. i've seen similar tactics in all kinds of negotiations. the sentences are seemingly polite, but the label's statements are a fist hidden inside a velvet glove.
this just smacks of unsavory tactics i've seen in other contexts. i was instantly suspicious when i read the tenor and vibe of those (very similar) label statements.
None of the boxes I looked up were mispriced, although they were all at better rates than Amazon by at least a few dollars. Some ECM's are under $5 if they aren't album priced.
Looking at an album I bought last night, instead of "re-download", it has a blue button that says "re-purchase album ($5.99)". Are free re-downloads gone?
Prices on old jazz aren't terrible...3 or 4 bucks w/o 10-min tracks. Otherwise 5.99-6.49 are prices you see a lot. Parts of Fantasy are gone (maybe??), many MIA from my S4L.
Sets are maybe 25% less than on Amazon. Sorry, no big mistakes!
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Even though I've been out for almost 15 months I'm anxious to see what has been wrought.
nah. my guess is that the statements by these two labels were distorted, and emusic had to address the issue more deeply. what the emusic ceo and what the labels said yesterday can't both be true, and since the statements were issued basically at the same time, they didn't address each other.
i don't think i'm making any shocking leaps of faith with this. i've seen similar tactics in all kinds of negotiations. the sentences are seemingly polite, but the label's statements are a fist hidden inside a velvet glove.
This whole change is a mistake. Enjoy.
and it says retry download (free).
Prices on old jazz aren't terrible...3 or 4 bucks w/o 10-min tracks. Otherwise 5.99-6.49 are prices you see a lot. Parts of Fantasy are gone (maybe??), many MIA from my S4L.
Sets are maybe 25% less than on Amazon. Sorry, no big mistakes!
yep http://www.emusic.com/browse/editorial/ed/-edp/ed/0-0/0.html