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Originally Posted by Captain_jovi
U2 and Metallica both own the rights to their own music. Those two plus Pearl Jam's audience actually wants this stuff.
They probably stopped after 2017 because it undersold because, again, it hasn't been about the music for the band's fan base in a long long long time. Can you really not understand why they're spending top dollar to market and put out something with a dwindling audience that goes nuts for wine and spice packs? Like, it has to be shockingly obvious the stuff we want won't sell, right?
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I'm sure if they released a collection of digital EPs with unreleased songs or some legendary shows from the eighties, nineties, 2000s, they would have their niche. But to do this, you have to educate your fans, you have to make an effort to speak up and promote this whole thing a bit. There is nothing cheaper than releasing digital music. I don't know how much it can cost to pay the royalties, but if done right, there will be an interest there.
The failure of NJ deluxe 2014 was because it felt like an incomplete launch for the fans, which some of us bought despite everything, but the rest of the casual people already had the ultimate edition 2010 on the market even as something recent and with lower prices. The promotion was also very poor, a launch of these characteristics is not launched in the middle of July, if you want to make the sales resonate, you have to make a great package for the fans, and launch it in style on designated dates. September - October - November are the best dates for anniversary launches.
In the end, it is about educating your fans (or your potential audience) to the product you intend to sell.
I don't have to feel guilty for not being able to buy these shows live on iTunes or on their own website. Jon gets it wrong with this way so crude of throwing legendary gigs like Wembley Arena 88. This show deserved a release with a little more pampering... you know, a good mastering, physical and digital release, I'm sure it would be better received than Live From London Palladium or Inside Out. Educating your audience with these types of releases from time to time makes it work. If you never release anything from the vaults, and when you do, you do it poor and bad, it is not the fault of the audience or the fans.
I've paid $ 80 for get Never-Heard-Before Tracks, and unreleased shows, however, there's nothing like that, but hey, you can subscribe to sirius for several months or a year and you listen to some shows in streaming quality. **** YOU JON.
My hope is that perhaps, this broadcast on sirius is the excuse to later share these shows in JBJ Experience, which is based more on previously seen releases.