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Postcards from NYC: death of the music shop edition

August 21, 2009 – 11:25 am

Suitably apocalyptic fascia above the Virgin store in Union Square.  Looks like smoke issuing from the middle of a magnified vinyl LP.  The store has closed down.

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Bid for music: Amie Street

August 20, 2009 – 10:08 am

Anyone else tried Amie Street?  I just set up an account so that I could try it out and haven’t really got too far with it, but here’s the basic idea:
On Amie Street, the community determines the price of music. Every song starts cheap (or even free!) and increases in price up to 98 cents [...]

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Streaming music

August 17, 2009 – 11:12 am

As music companies struggle with what appears to be a declining market, one of the models being pursued — with some enthusiasm it seems — is the idea of streaming music.
Under such a system, instead of buying CDs or downloading songs from iTunes or wherever, you would instead subscribe to a music streaming service in [...]

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Eat to the beat

August 4, 2009 – 10:03 am

Is there another industry where the legal parameters within which the product is produced clashes more heavily with the natural tendency of that product to spread itself around freely than the music industry?  Software maybe?  Books?  Movies?  I’m guessing these industries don’t have nearly the same number of problems.
The SMH reports today of moves by [...]

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