Ian Boddy talks about "Time" in Music (EMP # 2)

+++++MZ filled a niche at the right time with an excellent service+++++
As an access portal, it opened a world of new & long gone releases we would have never heard otherwise.

There must be some minimum cost control otherwise it will be chaos & the end of it all.

I mentioned this before, US always had the lowest prices for everything.
That kind of marketing strategy made the US more of an anomaly than a reference.

I agree there is no resale value in a file nor is there any collectible element, always an issue with this.
But what's it to be:
Ignore downloads and never hear certain things, or try to adapt and accept it as another "media format" .

Nothing to do with MZ which works pefectly, as stated a few lines above.

Kind of getting fed up with some speculating artists/distributors incomes and referencing US "cheaper" prices.
My point was suggesting that people consider global prices when buying products globally.
Some just seem to want more for less.

I buy stuff from all over the place, amazon US ships a CD to Oz for $7, amazon.de has a flat rate of 14 Euros for the same thing, and on it goes.

It is a choice people have to make and should not be expecting the the best, bigest, fsatest, etc at cheaper prices.

More to the point, I see little sense in these cost comments and the polite countercomments, examples: someone walks into a shop, the product's on the shelf with a price tag: take it or leave it,

or, argue with BMW why a 335i is 15% cheaper in the US than Germany, UK 10% more than Germany, or in my case here in Oz, twice as much as the US...

Guys,

Well it's nice to have some positive views coming through but I'm a little "depressed" that there's so much focus on price. This is not and should not be the main focus of what we provide at MusicZeit. We have designed a good service that works very well and certainly serves our EM community better than anywhere else. It's a shop - walk in (virtually), look around and if you see something you like buy it - or not! Sure there's other services and like being in a shop on the high street it's your call whether to buy elsewhere or not (although many of the tiles we stock are exclusives).

Please remember as well we built MusicZeit for the musicians as much as for the customers. Many of them appreciate the fact that their albums can't be bought piece-meal track by track. In our genre albums often flow as a continuous suite of music and for many of them this was an anathema. And yes this does buck the industry trend. The fact that we also offered them instant access to their own log-in area, FLAC files, full cover artwork and the ability to set their own prices (subject to this much talked about minimum) are all seen by many as big plus points.

So happy that you're discussing things I raised in my interview but come on guys let's get off this price hook thing. You have to realise what it is you're actually buying when you purchase some music on whatever format it arrives in. I mean you wouldn't pay for a CD case with cover and a blank CDr in now would you - it's the music you're buying And some of what you pay for goes back to the artist - the less you pay the less the artist gets.

It's really all a balance between providing a service that works commercially and provides a service that people want/like.

Anyhow enough for now - I need to go and write some music

Cheers,

Ian

I seem to be beating a dead horse that I don't want to beat. I was trying to move the point in a broader direction but here's not really the place for it. Sorry Ian, certainly not my intention to make you feel depressed - one of the problems with not visiting this place very often is an ignorance of taboo subjects. The last sentence in my previous post stands to be reiterated.