Moldover Gives People A Reason To Buy His CD By Turning The Case Into An Instrument
from the rock-out dept
Another day, another example of a musician not freaking out about "piracy" but looking to create innovative reasons to actually buy something. The latest is the artist Moldover, who not only learned how to build circuit boards that display the album artwork and spell out the song titles, but he actually turned the CD case itself into a fully functional instrument. Check it out:It seems like every day we see new and different examples of artists coming up with cool reasons to actually buy product. While some critics insist that these sorts of things only work once, I tend to believe that creativity knows no bounds, and we'll keep seeing more and more unique ideas.
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Here's an artist who's at least giving people a reason to pay for something that's creative and fun over downloading that isn't suing everybody they can think of and demanding some "right to be paid" that they made up.
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Wait, What?
Neat idea, though.
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Fantastic!
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UH OH
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WOW!
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I have no idea if his/her music sucks or not.
I want that CD!
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I want that CD!"
Interesting in that we seem to have the RtB in front of the CwF, whereas it's usually the other way 'round.
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In this article and the one the other day about Pay What You Want both centered around selling plastic discs. This site has articles all the time that talk about how people do not want to buy plastic discs. So we have a neat feature that may be a reason to buy and a plastic disc that is not a reason to buy. How about affordable and downloadable tracks in the same quality that is available on the plastic disc? How about the neat plastic disc case that plays music but with a key to download the track and without the plastic disc?
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Regardless of what Mike tries to tell you, the shiny plastic discs are still important to consumers, and even fairly important to (non consumer) infringers
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The issue isn't that plastic discs are dead, it's that CDs are dead as the means to get the music, and you have an entire industry clinging to that dead model as the source of their revenue.
If you want the music, buy the music. If you want the CD, buy the CD. A marketing strategy that forces people to buy the (more expensive) CD when they want the music just ticks off the customers.
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If I could legally purchase discs of hundreds or thousands of MP3s instead of a dozen at a time, that would make the commercial purchase of the disc format more interesting.
As it stands, a whole disc for a dozen songs is a complete waste of physical storage space. I've sold off most of my CDs because I got tired of storing and moving them around. An entire box of commercial CDs fits on one DVD-R.
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There are thousands of ways things could go. As ChurchHatesTucker pointed out, the RtB and CwF can come in any order and from any place.
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Sweet Idea
+1 Props to Moldover
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What are you people? 12-year-olds?!?
I was reading in the new Wired last night - printed on dead tree product! SUCK IT!!! - about the "MP3 Effect" and how "good enough" quality was becoming preferred. They mentioned an experiment that incoming college students who were played music from various sources and nowadays, these kids preferred the distorted lossy sound of MP3s because they think that's how music is supposed to sound.
I've always found it ironic that as digital recording has gone into 192KHz territory (e.g. ProTools HD), the final product delivery method may be a compressed audio format with no dynamics and everything abouve 16KHz lopped off. Yeesh. May as well record into a boom box if that's how it's going to end up.
Hate to sound like a grumpy old man, but you kids with your sneering arrogance about music delivery methods are ignorant punks.
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PS. I think this is why people pay to go see concerts because they get all the range and depth they miss in the CDs.
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I think you were spot-on earlier, in that there are people who 'get' the audiophile portions of what's offered.
And most people, I suspect, don't get that. They go to concerts for (a)Social reasons, (b)Support reasons, and (c)Bragging rights.
I've seen the same thing happen in Second Life, which pretty much takes the audiophile part out of the equation.
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As far as I'm concerned, most MP3s that are properly encoded display no noticeable difference in sound quality to me from the CD source. It's people who encode at crappy settings or with crappy software that get crap out in the end.
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You're right! Unlike downloaded songs, which are just binary data that sounds like computer crap, CDs are the real sound stored into a magic plastic device! It's probably some sort of vibration thingy like vinyl records, you should try and put them under a needle and make them sound!
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Perhaps he should just get into the selling electronics business instead.
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We all did see "the obvious". Mike did state it. But the "cute toy" is more than you seem to understand. It is linked to the music and the artist, and is thus promotional. Plus it gives the artist a scarce, tangible product to sell, which gives people a reason to buy. They don't have much reason to buy the music, which he gives away for free (also promotional).
Ultimately, this "obvious" ploy will lead to:
a) More disks sold, more revenue
2) More awareness of this artist, buzz, sharing
II) More live performance ticket sales, performance revenue
v) More merch sales at shows
70 Goto a) and repeat
Yeah! I mean, how stupid is that! Gawd! Stupid musician, "hoping like heck that people might actually listen to the music" and doing something to make that happen. You're right, he should just quit instead.
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