My hope is that a group of people will band together with a very clever law firm and mass sue the RIAA for a million dollars each or more in a group of a few thousand people and clean out the RIAA’s funds to put these dinosaurs into a long overdue expiration!

There will be no peace or significant growth in the music business or satisfaction for music fans, customers and artists until these old manipulative, greedy, slave driving, dictating mafia guised under the names of the RIAA, CRB and Sound Exchange ( Sony, Warner, EMI, BMG and susiduary corporate labels ) are offically expired!

Clever.

Cheers!

Because the majors treat their customers as trash, especially once they have your money, they are getting like in return at the brick and mortar stores. Worse, places like iTunes that are doing fairly well, they are wanting to raise the price on. I won’t pay 99¢ for a digitally locked file, why would I pay more?

One of these days, it is my hope to see this industry crater as it is now configured to run. Being a financial vampire to all that do business with it and treating customers and potential distributors alike, has left the public with a lack of interest in doing business with them. Couldn’t happen to a better industry as it is now configured.

So far, none other than iTunes is doing very well on line. Mainly because of the greed and the lock down of files. I won’t pay high prices nor put up with digital lock down for a minute. I sure as heck ain’t gonna pay more for less. Even the 99¢ price is too high for what it is, low quality and subpar music.

The majors always turn a deaf ear to addressing prices and quality but are quite willing to blame all their troubles on piracy. Most of their troubles are of their own making. Everyone and their bother has told them that suing your customers isn’t that bright a business move. Now that they are intent on turning a whole generation off to their products nor wanting to do business with them ever, their future is written on the wall for all but those with blinders to see.

The artists that allow the major labels to act this way on their behalf, as well as those that are getting ripped of by the majors deserve to go down with the same shipwreck the public sees the majors as being. The contracts that have imprisoned artists have been long known for what they are. If new artists can’t see the reality beyond the face that looks just like them, then they will have to deal with the lack of income the majors see as their threat.

I personally will not be doing business with digitals in it’s present form.