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Juicefree20 (juicefree20)
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Posted on Thursday, July 29, 2004 - 2:19 am: ��Edit PostDelete Post���Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

According to Reuters, in the wonderful world of mergers Sony-BMC have been cleared for merger by the FTC. One can only imagine the ramification of such a deal. What do you think this will mean for us the consumer, the artists & the music business overall?

Here's the link: www.reuters.com

Thanks for the link Re Re :-) I found this story there!
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1wicked (1wicked)
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Posted on Thursday, July 29, 2004 - 4:13 am: ��Edit PostDelete Post���Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Juice...with all the mergers & subsequent "downsizing" and release of artists from their contracts, I think streetcorner doo-wop is gonna make a comeback. This will also help combat the "all Ashanti all day" R&B stations and "all Britney all day" rock stations that Clear Channel is gonna start promoting.
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mike s (mike_s)
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Sadly it will mean less choice with the near stranglehold the majors have got on this once proud industry now dependent on previous generations to provide revenue from their catalogues to keep them in business.
Hopefully this just might encourage more small record companies so that a and r choice doesnt rest with a very small collection of ears.
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Brian T. (mrclemma)
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Posted on Friday, July 30, 2004 - 1:12 am: ��Edit PostDelete Post���Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Mike S.,
You make a good point. I thought this was going to be the worst thing to ever happen to music.
It probably will be, for a couple years. Then the people aren't gonna hear what they want to hear. The fresh, creative, REAL talent that the suits "don't get" won't get signed. It'll be worse than mid-seventies rock radio. Then, history from the fifties will start to repeat. Small independent labels will start popping up, signing and guiding the best new singers and bands. By the time the major-label beancounters realize they've been sleeping, it'll be too late; the new music will be all the rage, the best talent will be on indie labels and all that will be left for the majors to sign will be the second-rate wannabes. Of course, once the new stars get greedy they'll sign with the majors(who will still be living off the fat of Britney Spears, Madonna and The Backseat Boys), the new labels will weaken or sell-out to the big guys and once again the fat-cat slimeballs will be in complete control.
But for eight or ten years things will be real cool again.

So don't fret too much over the merger. Eventually nature(and the music biz) will correct itself.
We should, however, take some of this into our own hands and lynch those corrupt bastards at the helm of the FCC for allowing this to happen.

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