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Someone tell Clive to try lowering prices.

good idea

Eminiem and Faith Hill.....can't wait (yawn). Even lower prices won't sell me those two. And I'm still not buying RIAA BMG crap.

Eminem--Eminem--- I meant Eminem!!! (I hate it when I misspell a word!!!)

Btw, did you ever notice these old record company guys have selective hearing? It's just like when you tell your kids to turn off the tv, and they don't hear a word you say. Lower prices--they never listen, do they?

Not only that, but stop treating their potential customers like subhuman vermin! That they never hear, either. But then, there is none more blind (or deaf) than a rigid, radical ideologue who's only concerned with his / her own agenda -- which is what these RIAA'ers are. Notice that they couldn't care less about those whose lives they've destroyed by their confiscatory class warfare strategy.

Not only should he try to lower prices, the retailers ought to tell Clive to STOP SUING OUR CUSTOMERS!

How long now have we been able to download music? Over 5 years?? And just now, only recently, someone thinks it's a good idea to be able to burn custom CD's in a retail store? Of course it's a good idea you morons. No wonder the record business is failing, no one in it is using their brain anymore.

"And just now, only recently, someone thinks it's a good idea to be able to burn custom CD's in a retail store? Of course it's a good idea you morons."

They didn't think of it recently. They had it in my local indie chain (recently purchased by TWEC) 3-4 years ago. It failed and they took the system out.

Yeah, Clive. That's right. You figured it out.

The reason why "sales are down" is because we just aren't having enough fun in the stores.

I mean, when I discovered digital downloads six years ago, downloading an mp3 or two on my blazing-fast 33.6 kbps modem, I was having a FUCK!NG BLAST waiting for that sh!t to arrive. Wow, was it fun! Oh man.

Lots of jackoffs will tell you its the high prices, low music quality, and suing of loyal customers putting them off RIAA branded recordings. No, that's total BS.

Everybody knows it's just because the shopping experience just isn't as FUN as it should be. Put a goddamned ferris wheel in HMV and I'd be back in a heartbeat. Thanks for your insight!

P.S. You're a fuck!ng douchebag.

Well mroop. I've NEVER seen such a system. It's great that your local Indie chain had that idea and tried to use it, but it's likely they ran into all kinds of copyright issues for having it there in the first place. Perhaps it also failed because the choices were limited. An indie chain doesn't have the marketing power to promote such a great idea either.

Has Tower Records done this? How about other leading CD sellers, like Best Buy or Walmart?

I think its a great idea. The fact that CD's like NOW 16 can reach the charts indicates people would like to buy CD's with popular songs from many varied artists. Never before had such a CD series like NOW ever reached number 1, until the NOW CD Series did it last year, or in 2002. What K-Tel record hit No. 1? None that I recall.