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发帖数: 29846 | 1 June 1, 2012 by Warner Todd Huston
Jack White recently of the band The White Stripes has realized something
important, capitalism works. At least it works when properly approached and
with the release of several special vinyl albums he is trying to do it right
, much to the consternation of some of his cheapskate fans.
As it happens, Mr. White is part of Third Man Records label, a company that
produces special pressings on vinyl for the collectors market. But, seeing
as how they are both limited and collectors editions, they aren’t cheap.
This has apparently made some of his fans mad.
With a price tag of upwards to $300 a piece, some fans have claimed Jack
White is ripping them off. But Mr. White begs to differ. He says there is no
reason why he should sell these collectors items at cheap prices just so
that ebay speculators can buy up a large number of them only to go online
and flip them for two, three, or more times as much as the original purchase.
We sell a Wanda Jackson split record for 10 bucks, the eBay flipper
turns around and sells it for 300… If 300 is what it’s worth, then why
doesn’t Third Man Records sell it for 300? If we sell them for more, the
artist gets more, the flipper gets nothing. We’re not in the business of
making flippers a living. We’re in the business of giving fans what they
want.
White has told his fans to quit the whining because he is giving them
exactly what they want, a collectors item that is actually worth the money
and giving more money to the actual artists and producers of the works.
White is exactly right. Unfortunately, too many people simply don’t
understand how capitalism works (and more especially the capitalism of the
collector market). Or perhaps more to the point, they refuse to understand.
In any case, it is good to see someone in the music industry so business
savvy as Mr. Jack White. May he prosper. |
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