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...that most people aren't regular/power Internet users (yet). My mum in her 60s is online (and thus counted in the stats for people using the 'net) but wouldn't have a clue how to download music, legally or otherwise.

Not everyone wants to charge for everything.

...because it's a major hassle (downloads are 100 times the size), just like with TV/movies. Illegal music downloading is simply ahead of those mediums because it uses less digital space.

What the recording industry needs to do is sell the digital music for an appropriate price. A large part of the cost of a CD in a shop goes to the retailer (who has to pay for premises, bills, staff etc.) and the distributor (who has to get the product from the pressing plant to the shops/warehouses). If you break it down to the actual cost of recording and marketing, the price of a track ought to be something like 29p. Apple (iTunes) just announced they're going to do tiered pricing, but the minimum level (59p) is still too high. If albums were £2.99 to buy online (five US dollars would be a nice pricepoint), as they really should be, they'd be a lot more popular.

I agree that subscription models are generally great for the consumer, but totally unfair on the content-makers. If one user pays £10 and downloads a thousand tracks, they get less than a penny, whereas another might only download 15 and they'd get around 50p (after costs). This makes no sense for them.

That's how it works. You survey 1,000+ people to see what they paid for and what they didn't, then you scale up your findings. Exactly the same as TV ratings.

It's 'vial', not 'vile'.

If we're counting...

Might be helpful to show the actual UK artwork for the album that he's referring, instead of the dull US version.

http://images.google.co.uk/images?q=mansun%20six

Also, he's promised his own music/blog posts for years now, so I really wouldn't hold my breath.

...was at BUG at the BFI Southbank (a.k.a. the NFT) in London on Thursday evenin, where it was shown in 'glorious' red/blue 50s-style 3D.

http://www.bugvideos.co.uk

Apparently the BFI hopes to get a more modern 3D version (i.e. polariod system in full colour) of it to show before the new Batman film at the IMAX in the summer.

I have to agree - this is pretty old now (around two months), and you could have just included the YouTube version:

http://www.youtube.com/profile_videos?user=radiohead&p=r

'seems they don’t their army of'?

I've worked at NME.COM. What coffee machine does DiS have?

I went to see DJ Shadow at the Indigo2 (the 'music club' venue within the newly re-opened O2 dome) a few weeks ago, and found that the combination of the squeaky clean venue and the lack of cigarette/spliff smoke in the air (as you used to get at similar gigs at Brixton Academy) definitely dampened the atmosphere.

Researchers at universities do not get paid a lot, if anything!

...so yeah, it's kinda obvious why you get more educated people on Facebook.

Get some current friends.

Your profile says you're 24, 'old timer' :)

Good work fellas. Full list of awards at:

http://www.recordoftheday.com/cgi-bin/rotd-mb/rotd_config.pl?read=97480

Sorry!

Sorry!

What browser are you using? And on what operating system? Maybe your browser has been meddled with.