February 08, 2004
The RIAA Owes Us Something Back!
This evening I was loading up some things from my storage unit and noticed my 120-tape cassette organizer over in the corner. Years ago before CDs, I spent lots of hard earned gas station wages on 8-tracks and cassette tapes. I didn't own a good turntable until much later so never really got into albums. Twenty-five years later, a lot of my cassettes are junk having lost the battle against time. My first CD (Talk Talk - It's My Life) sounds as good now as the day I bought it. Here's where the RIAA comes in...
I know that the majority of the money I paid for those cassettes and 8-tracks didn't go into media costs. I paid for the licensing of the music recorded on the media, the record company's profits, the distributor's profits and the music store's profits. So how do I recoup my licensing fees on these hundreds of junk cassettes? I think I should be able to trade them in for CDs of the same title for a nominal media fee; a buck a disc ought to do it.
How about it RIAA? Take a break from grousing about lost profits and give something back to the consumers who have fueled your Learjets for all these years. We pay good money to license your music. Put some permanence into the licenses and support media mobility for anything we buy legitimately. I'll be holding my breath.
You can now resume your regularly scheduled grousing.
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Posted by BillSaysThis at February 9, 2004 12:02 AMDear Mitch, I really enjoy your recent post. Thereason I enjoyeditthe most is because you mentioned 8-trackin thatarticles. I agree with everything, especially about trying to get some money back. I collect 8-tracks, have lots of them and can fix most of them. I really wasn't in to tapes until I ran across 8-trackheaven(what a fantastic site) Have you every tried to fix your old 8-Tracks? Most of the repairs are easy, usually the splice just breaks on most of them. What did you do with your old 8-Tracks? I hope you didn't throw them away because a lotoftrackers would take them off your hands because people collect them now. As far as tryingto be compensated for all those tapes and cassettes you boughtin the past, you might as well give up. As far as I understand, 8-tracks and players are not made anymore. There a thing of the past.
Posted by David Maugans at February 10, 2004 12:07 PMDear Mitch, I really enjoy your recent post. Thereason I enjoyeditthe most is because you mentioned 8-trackin thatarticles. I agree with everything, especially about trying to get some money back. I collect 8-tracks, have lots of them and can fix most of them. I really wasn't in to tapes until I ran across 8-trackheaven(what a fantastic site) Have you every tried to fix your old 8-Tracks? Most of the repairs are easy, usually the splice just breaks on most of them. What did you do with your old 8-Tracks? I hope you didn't throw them away because a lotoftrackers would take them off your hands because people collect them now. As far as tryingto be compensated for all those tapes and cassettes you boughtin the past, you might as well give up. As far as I understand, 8-tracks and players are not made anymore. There a thing of the past.
Posted by David Maugans at February 10, 2004 12:07 PMDear Mitch, I really enjoy your recent post. Thereason I enjoyeditthe most is because you mentioned 8-trackin thatarticles. I agree with everything, especially about trying to get some money back. I collect 8-tracks, have lots of them and can fix most of them. I really wasn't in to tapes until I ran across 8-trackheaven(what a fantastic site) Have you every tried to fix your old 8-Tracks? Most of the repairs are easy, usually the splice just breaks on most of them. What did you do with your old 8-Tracks? I hope you didn't throw them away because a lotoftrackers would take them off your hands because people collect them now. As far as tryingto be compensated for all those tapes and cassettes you boughtin the past, you might as well give up. As far as I understand, 8-tracks and players are not made anymore. There a thing of the past.
Posted by David Maugans at February 10, 2004 12:07 PMDavid: Believe it or not, I still have all my 8-tracks and still have a player that works. My article was really just poking fun at RIAA who seem to want everything and never give anything back to the people who keep them viable. I guess that makes them politicians!
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