Because apple's too stingy to let people release poor quality products.

10-Oct-09 03:43 AM

10k for the animatronics and vids etc, and i take it the artist supplies EVERYTHING. So , other than the coding, what do the itunes team do ? Its tough as it is , what with marketing and composing, together with production, mastering et al all handled by the artists themselves.

In effect, its only the biggies who can do this, cause theyll hire a team, who is paid by their own team , to pay the team at itunes to deliver.

er..yeah

10-Oct-09 05:44 AM

Well ... This is an experiment to: push the album format vs. singles Conceived by apple as a solution to save major labels / a value vs. p2p / A new format vs. Apples past tried and true . I imagine if it works out they will open it up .... assuming it is apple who owns the LP format exclusively .

That said I hope it works out as I have been planing to to something like this myself since 1999 but never could find a format I thought would work .

10-Oct-09 12:05 PM

This is nonsense. And this is exactly why I never bother to write music anymore. No one would appreciate it even if it were stellar.

11-Oct-09 11:00 PM

Read a short Q&A with Brian McKinney @

http://www.aemmp.org/site/2009/10/12/itunes-lp-vs-chocolate-lab-records-q-a-with-brian-mckinney/

12-Oct-09 02:15 PM