{"id":5955,"date":"2004-06-23T15:42:54","date_gmt":"2004-06-23T22:42:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2004\/06\/23\/brer-recording-industry-strikes-again.html"},"modified":"2004-06-23T15:42:54","modified_gmt":"2004-06-23T22:42:54","slug":"brer_recording","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2004\/06\/23\/brer_recording.html","title":{"rendered":"Br’er Recording Industry Strikes Again"},"content":{"rendered":"

As part of a ruling slamming the recording industry for price gouging, said industry was supposed to donate many, many CDs for free to libraries and schools.<\/p>\n

“Well, heck, guys,” you can just imagine some industry bigwig saying, “seems to me we’ve been paying a lot of money to warehouse a bunch of crap music nobody wants to buy. Sounds like a great solution to our problem, don’tcha think?<\/a>“<\/p>\n

Among them are the librarians at the Tacoma (Wash.) Public Library, who last week received a shipment of 1,325 CDs that included 57 copies of \u201cThree Mo\u2019 Tenors,\u201d a 2001 recording featuring classically trained African American tenors Roderick Dixon, Thomas Young and Victor Trent Cook; 48 copies of country artist Mark Wills\u2019 2001 album \u201cLoving Every Minute,\u201d 47 copies of \u201cCorridos de Primera Plana,\u201d a greatest hits compilation by Los Tuscanes de Tijuana (2000); 39 copies of \u201cYolanda Adams Christmas\u201d (2000); 37 copies of Michael Crawford\u2019s \u201cA Christmas Album\u201d (1999) and 34 copies of the Bee Gees\u2019 \u201cThis Is Where I Came In\u201d (2001).<\/p>\n

No doubt there’s a lot of demand every holiday season for Michael Crawford’s Christmas album. Ho, ho, ho.<\/p>\n

\u201cNot to disparage the artists represented, but I was pretty surprised by the numbers,\u201d said librarian Lara Weigand, noting that the library system normally would stock no more than two copies of the most-popular titles at each of its 10 branches. \u201cI didn\u2019t know what the terms of the settlement were for schools and libraries, but I did not think that it was the intent that we would get more copies than we could use.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ya think?<\/p>\n

The RIAA blames a “computer glitch” on the mess-up, and says it’s All Fixed Now. Libraries which have already received their shipments are busy contacting each other to see who needs their extra copies.<\/p>\n

Yeah. That’ll learn those recording labels. You betcha.<\/p>\n

(via BoingBoing<\/a>)<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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