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p2pnet.net News View:- When Chris over in the UK told me about EMI’s prezzie to singer Joss Stone, I wanted to toss my cookies.
The record label gave her £100,000 in uncut diamonds as an 18th birthday present.
That’s almost $190,000.
"Not many teenagers get something like this,” says a Daily Mirror quote. “It is reward for her huge success in Britain and America. She doesn’t splash out on flashy stuff so it was a real treat."
EMI routinely sues other teenagers for not paying through the nose for its cookie-cutter tracks, and songs from the likes of Stone aren’t even on the menu.
I don’t know about you, but that really pisses me off, as does 99.999% of the other self-serving equine excreta the labels and movie studios throw up, day in, day out, to be faithfully republished by the world press corpse.
EMI is a Big Music cartel member – one of the four multi-billion-dollar firms that claim file sharing is “devastating” their businesses and causing untold hardship and suffering to the people who work for them.
And the mainstream media regurgitate this kind of garbage as if it comes from credible sources, which means the average person, who has no knowledge of the stunts the entertainment industry pulls to keep its execs fat and happy, takes it as gospel.
In the meanwhile ordinary mums and dads and their kids and students and grandmas and grandpas and uncles and aunts and brothers and sisters and the people next door are labeled as hard-core Master Criminals —- while the real crooks dance rings around the movie and music companies.
And yet, with straight PR faces and record-breaking revenue reports, the cartel members say times are hard. Really hard.
Jon
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Daily Mirror - Joss’s stones, April 14, 2005
April 17th, 2005 at 5:05 pm
Diamonds are a girl’s best friend and Lies are the best friend of the Music cartel.
April 17th, 2005 at 9:30 pm
I suppose if the times weren’t hard the diamonds would have been cut.
Poor little rich bastards.
Breaks my heart that they can’t make more millions of $ per weeks.
April 17th, 2005 at 9:46 pm
i might be mildly impressed if i knew who joss is.
nevermind, it’s not important.
April 17th, 2005 at 10:41 pm
Joss Stone, she’s made it big this year over here in the UK due to the airplay on radio / commercial TV of her latest album Mind, Body and Soul. Oh, and did I forget someone who EMI enjoy wasting money on?
Singles don’t sell so they claim they make less money
although for every single bought, 10 albums are purchased, and yet they still have the money to give out birthday presents like that!
The £100,000 could have been used to make quite a few bands or artists well known, yet they just wasted it!
Chris
ps, thanks Jon! I’ll get around to registering sometime as well
April 17th, 2005 at 11:00 pm
I agree with the commenter who said, “Joss Who”? Much the same as I say “Britney Who”? Neither of the entertainers hold much water with me as I don’t even know who they are. Honestly, I could care less either.
New music just doesn’t seem to be music these days. There isn’t a lot of skill in most of todays artists. Certainly not enough to spend the sort of money just to test the waters that present prices are for them. One only need to look at the flap that “Ashley Who” made with the failure to pull off the lip sync on a national appearance so see why most entertainers lack skill to pull it off. Maybe this has something to do with why 30 year old music is still popular today. There is a core value to those older artists that seems to be missing today.
April 18th, 2005 at 2:14 am
When they say “singles don’t sell”
What they really mean is: “singles don’t make us as much money so we’re not releasing as many of them. This way we can force ppl who want only one track to pay for an entire album making us a crapload more money”
I don’t know what it’s like in the uk, but albums cost 3 to 5 times more than singles in Oz, so even if less people buy the album than would have bought the single, they’ve still gained more money.
Then of course they count the reduction in singles they produce as lost sales and blame p2p for it. They complain to the media who lap it all up, while telling their own shareholders that things are going great, business is booming, never mind what the idiot public is being told.
They really believe that without p2p we’d all go out and buy the entire albums to get the individual tracks we’re after.
We know they’re off their trees, but that’s what they honestly believe.