The story of the $1,000 CD
Sue Trowbridge
be able to afford to pay $1,000 for a CD, even if it was by one of my
favorite artists!
Has anyone here ever heard of Marissa Marchant?
--Sue
The Price Is Variable
Would you pay as much for a good record as you would for a fine bottle of vino?
By Chris Dahlen
Maybe you've heard of Marissa Marchant, maybe not. A couple of years
ago, she was just another unsigned singer/songwriter toiling in New
York City, as common as a pigeon or a hot dog vendor. But she had
bigger plans. When it came time to sell her albums, Marchant decided
that her music was worth more than the usual $18 a CD: She had
experience, and training, and extraordinary gifts. As she explained to
ultrasecretwebsite.com, "I was sick of being taken for granted and
decided to wake some people up with exorbitant prices. People don't
want musicians to think highly of themselves, but plumbers are allowed
to get 500 dollars for changing a pipe for an hour." So, on her Web
site, she charged a cool $1,000 a disc -- or $2,000 if you bought all
four...
Read the whole thing at
http://www.sfweekly.com/Issues/2005-12-21/music/music.html
andrew fries
Why yes I would. I am perfectly satisfied with the wine I can buy for
less than 15 dollars a bottle, and that is precisely what I think is
also a fair price for a CD.
But if someone prefers to pay 1000 dollars, well... there's one born
every minute, isn't that right? And that goes for wine, as well. There
is no sane reason why a bottle of drink should cost that much. So really
what we have here is a perfectly unreasonable comparison offered in
support for a completely silly idea. It all fits.
zealous
> zealous wrote:
>
> <I think that a person who thinks that musician and real serious
> artists should be devalued and brought do to a street beggar or someone
> who is making minimun wage would agree with the statements above.
> <Most very gifted artists in the world are not being funded by major
> corporations these days.
> <This would mean that the person is not able to sell their music to the
> masses.
> <The person above is obviously part of our non-thinking mass culture.
> <They think that mass media devaluazation of art is something we should
> go with.
> < Good for them. I think people are spending thousands on things that
> don't feed the soul.
> <And there is a pervasive disrespect of artists in our society.
> <However, there is a respect for dentist, doctors and even lawyers.
> <Artists are considered something from the past ..something that was
> once admired.
> <We relish in the past and humankind accomplishments of the past.
> <New architecture is nothing much to be desired in the modern world
> that seems to accept sterility at every moment.
> <The person above is silly. They think that art and extremely hard
> working composers should not make a living. That is what he thinks. He
> is not thinking.
> <Music and art, if it is really unique and high quality is not similar
> to a bottle of wine for 15 dollars.
> <The person above doesn't sound musically literate...or understanding
> of composers or fine artists catagories...or even fine artist
> singer/writers..
> <There is a difference between cranking out a shlock album and creating
> fine art.
> <This is how non-thinking and non-intellectual our world has become.
> <People place a higher value on their computer gagets...and tech toys,
> then art, paintings and music.
> <I have been in some mansions..noticing I invested in more artwork and
> musical items then they had by far. They had their jumky pianos.
> ..or pianos they didn't tune, since music to them is trivial in a world
> that is dumb.
zealous
zealous
zealous
Kjetil Torgrim Homme
>
> Please let me edit this message above. How do you do it? Zealous.
you can't edit messages here, you have to make it perfect before you
send it :-)
also, this is a one-way mirror of the ecto mailing list. messages you
post on Google Groups will not be visible to the members of the
mailing list, only to other readers of fa.music.ecto (which is
probably only a handful in comparison). so you need to send your
submissions with ordinary e-mail to ec...@smoe.org.
--
Kjetil T.
zealous
This article was inspired by Justin Hayward of the Moody blues or the
people who work for him, or both.
They are now banned from my site, since they don't act like gentleman.
I think I have proved myself.
...enough for someone to speak to me directly.
I am sick of games, and sick games of these strange people. Chris
Dahlen is a strange dude.
My music is not summed up in a tidy round number. Music in your music
is summed up in numbers.
It is the value of my work. I work my behind off.
I would charge for amount of work I have been putting in for years.
And whatever was on my site was not what I have been composing for
years. That is why I am changing my name and it is not going to be
Mariesa Sabriel or Marchant Marchant.
I think that you have nerve to put a woman's cd, which I didn't was
Madonna until pointed it out ..next to a man's cd for 1000 dollars.
..and you did put 99 cents on a woman's album and weren't sensitive
enough to the female population.
You newspaper, aren't they associated with Clear Channel?
I think the value of many artist who are not famous are worth so much
money. I think very few people in the music industry would be worth
1000 dollars ....
and point was not that quality music costs more...or should..the point
was, that music that isn't mass produced should cost more if it is
quality. You people know nothing about me and shouldn't using people's
names in such a careless manner.
I was Marissa Marchant.
You people have banned. If you have any questions about why you are
bannded....contact me at zele_m...@earthlink.net
zealous
not zele_musi...
at earthlink.net
and I am sorry that I didn't edit that message. But you people don't
deserve anything better. I think you on the rude and insensitive side.
You also provoke anger in people . Justin and his people provoke anger
in people and they are not sensitive people. That is why they have
banned from my site and you also have banned. Go listen to
non-intellectual bs. that is all you may deserve. This article was
impolite.
zealous
zealous
zealous
Kjetil Torgrim Homme
>
> Why was this put twice?
why are you posting twice?
did you read my other message?
--
Kjetil T.
