No Dave Matthews Band on Music Store?
[232 byte] By [franson14] at [2007-11-9 14:54:11] 
What's up with this? Dave Matthews Band is probably the second biggest interent cult band ever (behind Phish). So why does iTunes Music Store not have ANY Dave Matthews Band stuff? I just kinda find it wierd that's all.
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# 1 Re: No Dave Matthews Band on Music Store?
From what I hear, the band kind of has a problem with selling stand alone singles. Apparently they believe strongly in the album-oriented way of selling music. As a result, they have refused to license their songs for distribution in iTMS. I don't know this for sure mind you, but this is what I've heard.macmaniac at 2007-11-15 16:46:39 >
# 2 Re: No Dave Matthews Band on Music Store?
Originally posted by macmaniac From what I hear, the band kind of has a problem with selling stand alone singles. Apparently they believe strongly in the album-oriented way of selling music. As a result, they have refused to license their songs for distribution in iTMS. I don't know this for sure mind you, but this is what I've heard.
I've heard this exact same thing if that help add any weight to this explanation.
rlanning at 2007-11-15 16:47:50 >
# 3 Re: No Dave Matthews Band on Music Store?
No big loss :PBut really, they only have 200,000 songs, which might sound like a lot but isn't that much when you start gettting into less popular music.
Adam at 2007-11-15 16:48:49 >
# 4 Re: No Dave Matthews Band on Music Store?
Originally posted by macmaniac From what I hear, the band kind of has a problem with selling stand alone singles. Apparently they believe strongly in the album-oriented way of selling music. As a result, they have refused to license their songs for distribution in iTMS. I don't know this for sure mind you, but this is what I've heard.
There's got to be more to it than this, because couldn't Apple just sell only the complete album and not individual songs if Apple wanted to?
Maybe Apple doesn't want to do it, but I seem to recall seeing some albums sold this way.
raiste at 2007-11-15 16:49:47 >
# 5 Re: No Dave Matthews Band on Music Store?
Originally posted by Adam No big loss :P
But really, they only have 200,000 songs, which might sound like a lot but isn't that much when you start gettting into less popular music.
400.000 isn't it?
sparks9 at 2007-11-15 16:50:46 >
# 6 Re: No Dave Matthews Band on Music Store?
Supposedly 400k as of the end of October.tubedogg at 2007-11-15 16:51:45 >
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