Problem with music [and pictures, videos, etc...] is that they are not physical products. The Web was always going to abuse this, especially as its founder said it should be fundamentally free. It was the same when the compact cassette, for example, came out. The electronics industries shot the creative industries in the foot. There is greed everywhere and the honest creative musician gets squashed in the middle. Sorry for that patchy comment, I'm on the phone..!
The ref we had was probably just as bad. He didn't book one player, depite one guy doing the that's fake and clutch my leg and appeal for a free kick. The ball then went near him so he jumped up and got it, only to get tackled again and roll about again.
I see it as the labels being the worse. My cousins label takes 98% of his Spotify and Youtube money. I don't see how up and coming artists can live. He is ok as they are big in Holland, but other bands/singers haven't got that luxury.
The film industry is mainly at fault for their problems tho. When a ticket to the cinema now costs nearly £15-20, you know something isn't right. Songs are cheap as hell so I blame the greed of the customers/ the labels for ****ing up new exciting bands and singers.
One of our players got clotheslined yet he didn't even have a word. Glad I don't play in the pub league would be even more crazy.
My local cinema has dropped their prices to £4.75. Had to do that as they lost all their Orange Wednesday customers when that promotion stopped.
Yes, I agree. I was using video as another example of a product that the Web can easily abuse because it is not a physical product as such.
Yes...and of course I am pleased personally, but I love going to the cinema and I wish they had better attendance. Don't want it to close. I understand it takes cinemas a long time to make money out of films alone.....perhaps I should buy overpriced popcorn
I never did much Sunday reffing but it was usually pretty mental. You can either do nothing which most refs do, or book anything that moves. Either way they hate you.
Sunday league is good usually. It's just this game had so much riding on it. Sunday league is nothing compared to pub league tho. I was lino once for a pub league game and had some guy offer me out for a fight because I called offside
Songs are cheap because otherwise nobody would buy them, more people would steal them. They never used to be...they used to have value. The reason cinema tickets have rocketed is the same as why gig tickets are so expensive - you have to try and make money to sustain this from somewhere.
