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Part of the appeal of online music is economic. Electronic mail-order houses are one of the few businesses making money on the Web, and music CDs are among the biggest sellers (along with books, flowers and pornography). Buyers get to sample songs before they purchase, and they enjoy modest discounts (typical price: $9.95 a CD); sellers save a fortune on overhead and can carry a much wider selection of performers. Internet Underground Music Archive www.iuma.com) one of the pioneers in the online-music business, got its start peddling the CDs of unsigned bands that nobody had ever heard...
...truly threatened by the rise of the Web, it's the record labels' longtime partners, the retail chains. Right now Web fans still have to make do with tinny RealAudio sound clips. There is no technological barrier, however, to downloading entire albums, in pristine digital quality, onto blank CDs--a prospect the Sam Goody stores of the world view with dread. But that's the way it has always been with rock 'n' roll. One person's dream is another's nightmare...
...getting your hands on the hardware is only half the battle. Hooking a nonstandard CD recorder up to an industry-standard computer may take a bit of doing--even for someone who's not afraid to read a manual. Then there's the bandwidth problem. Downloading full-length music CDs over even a high-speed modem will clog your phone line for a lot more hours than it takes to drive to the nearest Tower Records and back. That's assuming you can find a full-length version of the music you want. The RealAudio versions of songs that most...
...also resolved his anger toward Warner Bros. He calls his 1992 contract with the company "a learning experience." The Artist wanted to release more than one CD a year; Warner Bros. thought that would dilute his work. The company also released two CDs of Prince material against his will--The Black Album (1994), a sharp-tongued CD that parodied rap and that Prince had famously shelved; and the uneven Come (1994), a collection of outtakes. The Artist was not amused...
...filler. In the end there are just too many middling songs. Still, listeners can indulge in a little emancipation of their own and make one great album out of this three-CD set. Directions: 1)Buy Emancipation and a blank tape; 2)Record these songs off the three CDs: Jam of the Year; Somebody's Somebody; In This Bed I Scream; One Kiss at a Time; Soul Sanctuary; Emale; Let's Have a Baby; Friend, Lover, Mother/Wife; My Computer; and the title track. A little extra work? Sure. But well worth it. Freedom has its price...