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BIGGEST BP GIVEAWAY: 600 BP TO EVERY NON-WECHALL MEMBERS! HURRY GUYS!posting in a thread. (view post) |
04/19/2009 | |
Get this thread to 50,000 replies!and another (view post) |
04/18/2009 | |
Want a Master Ball, but don't feel like waiting? Get yours here.The Jagged Rock Fondler Posted:
huh? it’s basically pf minus 7 offense… which sells for 3 or 4 mil. that plus there not being any other source anymore, means they should probably go around 2mil a piece.(maybe a bit more) even the draginballz should be hovering around 1mil. (view post) |
04/18/2009 | |
What are your views on bootlegging?Shii Posted:
ok… where to start. i don’t want to be a jerk, you’re obligated to feel the way you do because of what you aspire to be. i guess that means you’re thinking of becoming some kind of a&r guy or label rep, maybe an exectutive at some point. or you’re in a band and don’t want to be surprised when you’re eventually screwed by these labels.
if anything, itunes etc. show that people are willing to buy digital music with actual money (i’d rather trade real goods for real cash personally) and in a sense, that goes a long way toward making the labels irrelevant, for the majority of artists that never become megastars. even with the big boys, most money is made off touring and merch (until the bloodsuckers invented 360 contracts), and the best promotion is word of mouth from likeminded music fans. let’s break up all this talk w/ some links you’ve probably all seen and/or won’t look at anyway:
http://www.negativland.com/albini.html
^ the numbers might be off due to inflation, but the theme probably hasn’t changed much.
http://news.cnet.com/5208-1027_3-0.html?forumID=1&threadID=9823&messageID=70813&start=-1
^again, the exact figures might be out of date, but for grins, let’s consider it as accurate. the last 4 items, which all support the label execs and retail (nobody who created anything included in the product i love listening to) are about 2/3 of the total price in the example. the artist would see a tenth at best, if they already paid the advance back, that is. if that’s the case they’re still touring in the old utility van & eating dry ramen waiting for the club to open so they can get something to wash it down with. had this fake band never signed w/ a label, stayed local and done things slower on a scale they could manage, they could make real profit for themselves, instead of for all the industry vampires.
they’re like the government- totally unproductive, only concerned with sustaining themselves. unless you count rootkits and drm garbage that ruined many a computer. at best you could say they’re like banks for bands- a necessary evil- except they’re not so necessary anymore, and they know we’re figuring that out- and artists are too.
it would be nearly impossible to sell a million records diy, don’t get me wrong. but the average band won’t sell than many anyway, and instead they want to make as much as they can, live as well as possible, and keep making music as long as people will buy it.
i was working at tower records the day we locked the doors for the last time, and it sucked to lose the last major physical source for music (and sucked to lose the job) nonetheless, i didn’t blame downloading, but the rediculous prices we had to charge to be able to run a store of that size. okay for the more obscure stuff, but most folks wouldn’t pay extra for the new NIN or now #20whatever when they could get it cheaper a block down the road.
intellectual property… doesn’t make sense. you can’t own an idea. if i share an idea with you, and you do it first or better; profit, and not share in the profit, i’d be upset. but ultimately, it was i who set it in motion by telling you my idea. it’s only “my idea” because nobody else has it yet. once you do; it can grow or change in ways i didn’t intend. remixes. fan fiction. ****ty remakes. knowing the way the internet works, anything i put here can be pbumed around, viewed, and edited to say things i didn’t intend. that’s what the internet is for- sharing information- 1’s and 0’s that hopefully add up to something.
if you stuck w/ me , thanks.
tl;dr: the industry killed good music, “downloaders are killing the industry”, eventually good music will kill downloaders. but not literally. i mean, it would have to be, like really great (or awful) to do that. (view post) |
04/18/2009 | |
MasterBall-gatesecond best equipment off/def wise in the game… pulled from the market (for the moment at least)... what do you think the odds are it’ll be nerfed pretty intensely soon, then reintroduced? i’m debating whether to sell mine off while it’s still desirable. what do you fine folks think? (view post) |
04/18/2009 | |
Banning for not breaking any rules, awesome move.^what they said. (minus the whiny ****es thing) (view post) |
04/17/2009 | |
Miss the Master Ball while it was available?all of a sudden i’m glad i bought a couple extra… (view post) |
04/17/2009 | |
Selling An Extremely Rare Itemso, to clarify, it’s a consumable?
and the reserve is 2X pink floyd? (view post) |
04/16/2009 | |
CRAZY prices on pills & ****...literally.
smileprin xr @ 50 buyout
jenkem @ 300
great way for noobs or wimpy alts to make some quick flezz.
the buyouts open in less than an hour.
if there’s enough interest, i’ll list a masterball for 20k buyout. (view post) |
04/12/2009 | |
ITT: Super srs question^ hivemind CreepPipe Posted: (view post) |
03/30/2009 | |
ITT: Super srs questionbumuming neither one was an accident, i’d regret the inaction more. failure or consequences are the price paid for learning… what would have happened is unknowable. i’d rather know.
plus, if i’m doing the thing in the first place, i probably believe in it. (view post) |
03/30/2009 | |
Raffle ticketsi must have misunderstood… i thought the main reason they don’t want players transferring flezz was so that i didn’t “give” you bp for buying my $3mil eyeball toy.
i thought that Log in to see images! (view post) |
03/30/2009 | |
Raffle ticketsi got into a couple of raffle ticket bidding wars(z), and granted they got a little outta hand, but nothing close to marble proportions- they all got seized by the man… i don’t really care either way since i was buying raffle tickets, but i bet the auctioneers were feeling screwed out of flezz.
a handy chart or rough formula(X% over cost etc.) for what’s considered abuse would help, in the sense that we’d at least know what we can’t do, and what not to bid on. yeah, “exploiters” would use the info, but i suspect they’ve already got it pretty much figured out.
on a mostly unrelated philsophical note, wouldn’t it make more sense to monitor bp transfers instead of flezz? that’s not even a suggestion, just a (likely) bad idea that might be worth some discussion. (view post) |
03/30/2009 | |
Bargain Drug Sales!this amusing thread is the main reason i buy my **** from you… keep up the good humor and slave tradi… uh, good work. (view post) |
03/12/2009 |
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