Hats off to Music Stores
Boyce on a theifing computer that killing the industry
If I wore a hat, I would take it off to the legitimate cds music stores in Barbados who continue to survive year after year despite the over whelming odds.
Notice I said the legitimate ones, not the theifing pirates that rip off our entertainment industry.
Am talking about PowerStation Cave Shepherd, Number One Record Shop and A & B Music, those are the legal Barbadian stores that continue to support our industry.
See this thing you are on now, the internet?
Well it has made a significant change in the way music can now be acquired by collectors. Music is now absolutely free and especially to the young demographic, purchasing music is no longer in their spending patterns.
In the 90’s when Madd operated a music store in Bridgetown called “Rue Rue”, it was the usual practice that every Saturday morning we had teenagers who would faithfully come and buy cds to their favorite artistes. Beres Hammond, Garnet Silk, Boyz to Men and Krosfyah sold like hot sugar cakes.
There were no cd burners in computers facilitating pirate activity and nothing called ADSL, so if you wanted music on cd you had to get it from a store.
Now the young people of today just stay home punch the name of their favorite song into the computer download it into their mp3 collection and enjoy it on their ipods and phones with out paying a cent. Damn wunnah internet people then, you should be shame!
There are teenagers out there who don’t know what a music shop looks like furtherless why you would take $50 to buy a cd
So that’s why we should take your hat off and admire the following; John Edwards of Power Station, Valerie Greaves of Number One Record Shop and Norman Barrow of A& B Music, for continuing to survive against overwhelming technological theifing odds and continual support of the music industry.
If you are not going to take your hat off, at least cut your hair…
Boyce is leaving the “theifing music” computer
Theifing blank cd
If during the reading of this blog there is any thing I might have written which might have incensed or offended you, GET OVER IT! There are many things I read and hear in the media on a daily basis that I don't like either. SO DEAL WITH IT! You are welcome to leave your comments though. Make sure and come back yuh hear !!!...
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April 8th, 2008 at 9:28 am
i support them but i also wonder how persons not involved in the music creation stage can earn an equal amount the artists. a cd is sold to records stores between $20 and $25 and then they retail $45.. this huge markup policy needs addressing
April 8th, 2008 at 4:38 pm
but referring to your rue rue experience back in de day a fella wud buy a lp, 45 or a cassette tape and guh home an tape um fa all he buddies. de pirating was still going on is juss it wasnt so widespread.
April 8th, 2008 at 7:12 pm
The cold hard facts are that technology is a doubled-edged sword that has changed the music business forever. Have you noticed how some major international artistes are giving away their music? In the same way that technology means ease, speed and cost reduction on the production side it also means that increasingly a new release is more of a promotional tool that enables the artiste to leverage other revenue streams such as touring, endorsements, ring tones etc. This is the new normal of the music biz. The good ole days are gone forever (and some of it wasn’t that good anyway) lets embrace the opportunities of the future. And the future is global.
April 9th, 2008 at 10:02 am
bajes says
The good ole days are gone forever (and some of it wasn’t that good anyway)
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i love that statement !
i agree also that pirating was around for some time now
in 1990 i released a big song entitled “Father Harry” on 7 inch disc before i released it on cassette. within a short space of time somebody put it on a pirated cassette and had it selling all over the world. 1990 was also the year of the song entitled” Hold yuh bam bam” by Speedy and the song “Fete” by Richard X————These three songs were the biggest songs that year
i know of a now defunct record shop that used to openly tape music and sell the cassettes for 20 and 25 dollars– this was 1979–(the year the first crop over calypso tent was opened)—
i think therefore that the pirating thing really accelerated with the introduction of the cassette because it also existed before the cassette when bootleg records were also produced but it was not that rampant.
i usually walk around and sell my CDs in an effort to compete with the pirates especially the ones on the street because there is still a market out there among the mature individuals. however, how to compete against the downloading capabilities available to the computer savvy individual is something that must engage my personal attention to see how i can compete with that.