antipaucity

Oompa Loompas:
Oompa loompa doopadee doo
I’ve got a perfect puzzle for you
Oompa loompa doopadee dee
If you are wise you’ll listen to me
What do you get when you guzzle down sweets?
Eating as much as an elephant eats
What are you at getting terribly fat?
What do you think will come of that?
I don’t like the look of it
Oompa loompa doopadee dah
If you’re not greedy, you will go far
You will live in happiness too
Like the Oompa Loompa doopadee doo
Doopadee doo

Oompa Loompas:
Oompa Loompa doopadee do
I’ve got another puzzle for you
Oompa loompa doopadee dee
If you are wise you’ll listen to me
Gum chewing’s fine when it’s once in a while
It stops you from smoking and brightens your smile
But it’s repulsive, revolting, and wrong
chewing and chewing all day long
The way that a cow does
Oompa Loompa doopadee dah
Given good manners, you will go far
You will live in happiness too
Like the Oompa Loompa doopadee doo

Oompa Loompas:
Oompa loompa doopadee do
I’ve got another puzzle for you
Oompa loompa doopadah dee
If you are wise you’ll listen to me
What do you get from a glut of TV?
A pain in the neck and an IQ of 3
Why don’t you try simply reading a book?
Or could you just not bear to look?
You’ll get no
You’ll get no
You’ll get no
You’ll get no
You’ll get no commercials
Oompa loompa doopadee dah
If you’re not greedy you will go far
You will live in happiness too
Like the
Oompa
Oompa loompa doopadee do

I generally like reading Seth Godin’s blog. However, this post on the digital music economy isn’t very helpful, in my opinion.

“A study last year conducted by members of PRS for Music, a nonprofit royalty collection agency, found that of the 13 million songs for sale online last year, 10 million never got a single buyer and 80 percent of all revenue came from about 52,000 songs. That’s less than one percent of the songs.”

Yes – 0% of a large number is still 0. But 0.5% of a large number.. is a big number, too.

What I think that article is telling us is that people are only willing to pay for .5% of music available online.

It speaks nothing to the relative popularity of said music – just to it’s profitability. I legally obtain lots of music. I buy CDs, use iTunes, stream radio, etc.

I also find freely-available songs from artists, and download them from their websites.

Also note – of the 13,000,000 songs available, 10,000,000 never had any purchases made. That means that 3,000,000 of them did – which means there was at least enough interest on some folks’ parts to give it a shot.

I think that means that most people won’t pay for the crap that’s shoved out the doors, and only want the good stuff.

You used to be stuck with 10 songs you didn’t want along with the 2-4 you did off a given album – the article says this means the bad songs were financing the good ones. That’s backwards: it was/is the good ones financing the bad ones. Now that people can get just the ones they want (ie, the good ones), we’re seeing how much of what is produced is really just junk.