Comments on: Musical toothbrushes: new income for Big Music

By: music

music — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 18:53:26 +0000

hi all, i hope you’re having fun here

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Mon, 26 May 2008 18:04:21 +0000

“This is what they want though, to be able to sell the same song over and over and over,”

True true true.
The majors own a fixed library of music.
As long as they can force us to listen to only what they own, they will be legally entitled to the royalties on it.

New music is a threat to them. That’s why independent artists and anyone involved in their success are met with resistance from the major labels and from any government who has been lobbied by the major labels.

That’s why we have had almost no good music for the last several decades and the reason why we have so many tiring classic rock radio stations.
….But now the internet is changing all this.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Mon, 26 May 2008 02:35:25 +0000

Mmm yes, I can’t wait for them to start whinning about pirated toothbrushes.

This is what they want though, to be able to sell the same song over and over and over, like, well, say every time you want a new toothbrush.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Sun, 25 May 2008 23:03:50 +0000

I can’t wait to get mine so I can hack it to play mp3s I “illegally” downloaded.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Sun, 25 May 2008 05:00:44 +0000

It’s just another piss-poor excuse for the record companies to make more profits from their artists, and tell said artists to blame their fans for not making the artists richer. Why not? They’ve done that with ringtones.

Or who knows? They might even crack down on slumber parties since the kids would need to bring their own toothbrushes and sue the kids for — dare I say it? — the crime of ZOMG MAKING AVAILABLE!

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Sun, 25 May 2008 03:34:15 +0000

Offer people an alternative to dealing with the devil and most would jump at the chance. That’s what the Internet has done in freeing them from bondage to that beast. Perhaps it’s inventor should accept partial responsibility also. Wanna sue HIM? And the one who invented electricity. Plus the one who invented lightning, which gave rise to the invention of electricity. Oh hang on, can’t sue him. Too difficult.

Perhaps they should sue themselves for alienating their own customers and destroying their own market by using unrealistic pricing, dishonest business practice, immoral litigation, haphazard distribution, and unappealing content.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Sun, 25 May 2008 03:20:19 +0000

It’s actually very clever, as they are experts in manipulating children, and they know if they use a catchy familiar tune children will want them, and then all children will due to peer pressure, and then you have child to parent pressure, and how many can resist that? No-one wants the fallout. Of course they will be expensive because they know it’s the parents who have to fork out.

When you hear how they target little kids and terrorize them, you just know somehow this idea is not out of any affection for them, but again they will be the targets in this.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Sun, 25 May 2008 03:07:57 +0000

Although having tunes come out of objects would be novel, there’s no way I’d pay more for it, especially knowing what is behind the extra cost.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Sun, 25 May 2008 03:04:40 +0000

The sad part is, mfrs will have to pay high royalties on these “tunes”, increasing the retail cost. I’ve got an idea. Get Metallica to sing your praises and propaganda.

What next, musical toilet brushes? If you could make toilet paper musical I might pay for that. Or maybe just use a slogan such as, RIAA we’re watching you. But that would better suit the MPAA.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Sat, 24 May 2008 23:19:19 +0000

If they could just make a musical toilet, I would be able to give my fully formed opinion to their product and made-up numbers on a twice-daily basis.

By: Harry Nads

Harry Nads — Sat, 24 May 2008 22:26:02 +0000

Perhaps they should focus on toothpaste instead of toothbrushes. I even have a slogan for them:

"Our toothpaste is just as awful as the music we distribute. It's so bad you'll want to spit it out immediately after coming into contact with it."

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Sat, 24 May 2008 17:15:37 +0000

“Because we have also made our collection costs more efficient, then for the first time we have been able to distribute more than half a billion pounds to our 50,000 members,”

Where can I find out who was paid and how much?
I want to know if the distribution makes any sense.
I suspect it doesn’t.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Sat, 24 May 2008 16:33:59 +0000

Making money with crappy musical tooth brush?

Whahahahahahhahaha! I don’t thin so! Who is going to buy thi sshit?

It will not be hard to encourage a boycott of these stuff!

Now they are desesperate.