Digital Downloads Are Hurting Weird Al
Saw this cool article about digital download royalties versus CD royalties. It caught my eye, of course, because it has to do with Weird Al Yankovic one of the primary geniuses of our time. He answers the question on his Ask Al page of which format to buy, physical CD or ephemeral DRM-ed digital, and he says, “Please buy CD.” I would buy the CD, Al, except sometimes that might allow Sony to root my box and might force me to pay $18 for packaging and, hey, wasn’t that price supposed to go down like ten years ago?
Dammit. According to the aforementioned article this is the record company’s fault. Apple can probably share some of the blame, too. Dammit. Instead of making it easy for what I see as the two parties involved in this transaction (artist and listener), the record companies and Apple have figured out a new way to screw everybody… the artist by not giving them the profits, and the listener by making us jump through these weird hoops of CD vs. iTunes because of
So hurry up and join Defective By Design and let’s end this crap.