RE: Music Packaging

["L. Bird" <pkeets@hotmail.com>]

>Couldn't agree more.
>But, I think we are what one would call "old school".
>I'm under the increasing impression that music lovers of today are a vastly 
>different breed than we used to be, and are in the process of a major 
>change.

I'll agree there.


>We all love the LP's and art work.  I'm of the opinion that art work has 
>little relevance or interest to the younger "MP3 generation".  I know many 
>younger music fans that don't bother with CD covers, or art work, and 
>simply store CD's in one mass carrying cases  Then, there are the folk that 
>only listen to MP3's.  Shelves of burned CD's in art-less cases.

I'm interested to hear that kids don't seem to look at the cd art at all.  I 
was talking to a couple a while back that had the Who's Next cd, but somehow 
never noticed what the boys were doing there at the monolith.  As I recall, 
some radio stations wouldn't play the album when it came out because of that 
cover.  It was a big thing then.

But, kids still love posters.  Maybe TED ought to sell the better covers as 
posters instead.


>I'm a bit surprised that Pete believes that packaging will be relevant in 
>music distribution in the near future.

He must have had good results with the Lifehouse packaging.  Plus, there was 
a huge outcry from the bootleg community about no art for the Denver 
download.  Some of that must have gotten around to Pete.


>The future?
>I see pay-per-view albums on TV.
>With the merging of TV and The Internet, it's only a matter of time before 
>we can pull up our favorite album (for a price), and do a listen while 
>watching images or videos relevant to that album.  From that, you'll be 
>able to click on a lyric sheet, record the whole thing on DVD, look up 
>relevant information via hyper-links, etc.

Interesting projection.  Probably all that on a bigscreen TV type monitor, 
too.  Hmmm.  Not a bad idea.  :)


keets

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