Fun with music piracy, the Red Hot Chili Peppers and Britney

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The report asked the students to put a value on the music they had bought or downloaded over time.

Nearly a third of the sample who had albums by the Red Hot Chili Peppers said it grew more valuable to them as time went on.

But over 80% of Britney Spears album owners said they had grown tired of her records.

(I love the phrasing in those last two sentences. 'We forgot to mention that over two-thirds of the RHCP listeners vomited upon contact...')

The full report in question (downloads as a PDF)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 19:31 (twenty years ago)

all the record stores in athens now are either local-owned indies or part of a bigger store a la best buy or wal-mart. fine by me.

― cinniblount (James Blount), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 19:37 (twenty years ago)

Pretty much the trend out here -- the one exception I can think of in Costa Mesa which is neither option like you describe is Second Spin, a chain on its own but a very specifically limited one (there's the one here, the one Chaki works at in the Valley, and four others -- Santa Monica, San Diego, and two in Colorado). Since they pitch themselves primarily as a used/buyback chain and website, they seem to have found the correct model for survival at present.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 19:40 (twenty years ago)

What Ned said except trade "Second Spin" for "Soundwaves."

― Doobie Keebler (Charles McCain), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 19:55 (twenty years ago)

Or "Cheapo"

― MC Transmaniacon (natepatrin), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 20:08 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, it has to be said that the death of the Sam Goody/Wherehouse model really doesn't worry me at all -- did anyone actually have any sympathy for them when they went down?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 20:28 (twenty years ago)

yeah, in athens i'm sure 'people figured out they could buy the same stuff for six dollars less at best buy or seven dollars less at wal-mart' was a bigger factor than downloading (though dl was probably what broke the camel's back). weirdly enough vinyl sales are probably what keep the three stores downtown open.

― cinniblount (James Blount), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 20:33 (twenty years ago)

I'll assume you're talking about athens, ga...

what's left up there? wuxtry, todd's place in front of the 40watt (forgot the name, yoyo or something?) and what else?

― rentboy (rentboy), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 20:36 (twenty years ago)

yeah - wuxtry, low yoyo, and schoolkids downtown (which is sorta chain and maybe even not locally owned but alot closer to that model than to sam goody, record bar, turtles (rip), etc.). bert's elsewhere, something else i forget. haha - everybody DOES know todd!

― cinniblount (James Blount), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 20:43 (twenty years ago)

i used to buy records from Todd when i was in high school, long before he ever thought of opening a shop. he used to set up a booth at the Atalnta Record show (at the old hotel basement off Howell Mill) and after that me and friends used to drive to his (parents) house in Marietta and buy stuff out of his basement direct.(i got a large portion of my early Factory vinyl that way) he opened Low Yo-yo during my senior year at UGA

he's a complete record geek, but i mean that in the nicest way possible

― rentboy (rentboy), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 20:48 (twenty years ago)

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