{"id":277,"date":"2003-11-01T07:37:47","date_gmt":"2003-11-01T12:37:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/2003\/11\/music-its-a-matter-of-taste\/"},"modified":"2003-11-01T07:37:47","modified_gmt":"2003-11-01T12:37:47","slug":"music-its-a-matter-of-taste","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/2003\/11\/music-its-a-matter-of-taste\/","title":{"rendered":"music &#8211; it&#8217;s a matter of taste"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>phil ringnalda has a <a title=\"phil ringnalda dot com: How I wish it could be\" href=\"http:\/\/philringnalda.com\/blog\/2003\/09\/how_i_wish_it_could_be.php\">vision<\/a> of the music industry.  it&#8217;s a nice vision and it&#8217;s attracted some interesting comments.  today i&#8217;m going to use this as a hook to introduce yet another music business metaphor,  and probably my personal favorite &#8211; one that&#8217;s been with me for a very long time&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>there is no reason the &#8220;two systems&#8221; can&#8217;t coexist.  just like there&#8217;s no reason mcdonalds and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lafermerestaurant.com\/\">la ferme<\/a> can&#8217;t coexist.  mcdonalds may serve a million hamburgers in the time it takes me to type this&#8230; and philippe maigrot may not finish creating a salad.  but they both stay in business and they both have a market.  even better,  those markets don&#8217;t overlap a whole lot,  so la ferme isn&#8217;t likely to &#8220;siphon off&#8221; the critical 899,472th mcdonald&#8217;s customer.<\/p>\n<p>as with food, music is a matter of taste.  value is created where the sound hits your ears, or where the food hits your tongue, but it&#8217;s more than just sound or taste.  it&#8217;s the environment.  it&#8217;s the company (as in people you&#8217;re with).  it&#8217;s the whole experience.<\/p>\n<p>it&#8217;s <em>all<\/em> about the experience.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>phil ringnalda has a vision of the music industry. it&#8217;s a nice vision and it&#8217;s attracted some interesting comments. today i&#8217;m going to use this as a hook to introduce yet another music business metaphor, and probably my personal favorite &#8211; one that&#8217;s been with me for a very long time&#8230; there is no reason [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}