Styx paradise theater album cover finder download#
A single band can only make so many songs in a year, effectively making the goods (songs) very, very scarce.ĭistribution is “infinite” (stupid term, try to download the bloodhound gang in china or similar countries), but it doesn’t stop the music itself from being a scarce commodity. There is a very, very limited number of decent / acceptable songs released each year. Music as a good (as opposed to you or I just plunking on a piano) is actually a very small amount of goods. You go on about how price and value are not related (but almost every economist says they are), and then you get confused between distribution and product. It’s why we enjoy reading you so much Mike. Collapse replies (28) Reply View in chronology The desired “thing” is still a clean, legal copy of the music.Īnd remember, music is not an infinite good, just a scarce good infinitely distributed. In the end, the t-shirt for most buyers settles back to just being a proxy for a little plastic disk. Merchandise novelties are nothing new…the difference is you used to get the physical media, too. How about Styx laser-etching their Paradise Theater record? Doubtful. I contend that it probably isn’t much of a factor now absent the novelty.Īnd this is not new, even in the bricks and mortar sense…were sales of Steve Martin’s record breaking album in the late 70’s enhanced because he included a “so long and thanks for the fishes” color glossy with the record, a novelty I still have? Doubtful. Given the relative novelty and unusual press, it will be extremely difficult to objectively measure what portion of sales were driven by press and novelty, versus those who wanted the t-shirt, versus those that wanted the t-shirt + album, versus those that just wanted the music.īut for what I suspect is the vaaaaaaaaaaaaaast majority of buyers, who just want the music, what happens when the t-shirt (or other merchandise) gimmick is commonplace and receives no press beyond the producer’s marketing budget? Basically, the merchandise aspect ceases to be a factor. What is “many?” And, to the themes of longevity and scalability, I agree that this approach will probably boost sales of this album as a one-time shot.
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