On Pre-Ordering Albums – Madonna and Weezer Need to Get in the Now, Man!.
Pre-ordering music albums has reached the levels of absurdity. I was on iTunes today and found the new Madonna album and Weezer albums are available for pre-order, but you can download the singles right now. This is just plain stupid.
I am hereby officially rebelling. I have said it before: don’t release a portion of an album – release the whole fucking thing! Unless you are a local artist and can’t afford to finish the rest of the album until you sell some copies of the single… But for mega-platinum artists to act this way is ridiculous. Their albums are done. They are completed. The finishing touches put on months, maybe years ago. But still they insist on making us wait until such a time that their promotional people deem it appropriate.
So don’t buy into this shit. It is unfriendly behavior and proves that they are completely out of touch with the current generation of music listeners.
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