iTunes Debuts Pass Model with Depeche Mode - [H]ard|Forum

**Terry Olaes** · #1 02-28-2009, 12:12 PM

iTunes launched a new Pass model with Depeche Mode as the debut artist. Similar to the Season Pass model already available on iTunes for TV Shows, Pass for music is essentially an album subscription model that allows artists to sell products for one flat rate and then deliver them throughout a set amount of time.

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So far, the model has shown promise. A recent bundle of the Beastie Boys' reissue of "Paul's Boutique," in conjunction with EMI and the technology platform Topspin, carried a range of options, from a digital album for $12 to a $120 package that included a boxed set and download. According to Topspin, only 16 percent of the resulting sales were for the cheapest option, and the average revenue per transaction topped $50.

**sfsuphysics** · #2 02-28-2009, 12:16 PM

So let me get this straight, you pay for music, of which you don't get all of it, but instead you get the rest of this unknown music at a later date? So it could totally suck and you'd be screwed because you bought it all anyways?

Kind of sounds like CDs, except with a CD you at least get it all at once.

**markt435** · #3 02-28-2009, 12:20 PM

lol Silly Apple...

**xrealm20** · #4 02-28-2009, 01:10 PM

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Originally Posted by sfsuphysics

So let me get this straight, you pay for music, of which you don't get all of it, but instead you get the rest of this unknown music at a later date? So it could totally suck and you'd be screwed because you bought it all anyways?

Kind of sounds like CDs, except with a CD you at least get it all at once.

Its pre released music, you cannot purchase some of the tracks yet. They are slated to be released in 2009. So whenever the new music drops, you get the songs automatically downloaded, plus content you wouldn't get if you didn't sign up for the pass. It's actually a good way to issue content...

**Hofy** · #5 02-28-2009, 01:34 PM

Sounds like a rip off to me. Depeche Mode???!! How about some real music?

**error-in-excellence** · #6 02-28-2009, 06:28 PM

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Originally Posted by Hofy

Sounds like a rip off to me. Depeche Mode???!! How about some real music?

Scared of dark music?

**Spoonmaster** · #7 02-28-2009, 06:32 PM

+ Depeche Mode

- sales system.

**Arcygenical** · #8 02-28-2009, 06:44 PM

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Originally Posted by error-in-excellence

Scared of dark music?

Depeche mode? Dark Music?

WHAT?! How!

**phide** · #9 02-28-2009, 08:26 PM

I'm not sure if it's the "model" more than it is that Topspin is just awesome, but I digress.

**AVT** · #10 02-28-2009, 08:30 PM

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Originally Posted by Hofy

Sounds like a rip off to me. Depeche Mode???!! How about some real music?

Damn right.

Kill
Mother
Fucking
Depeche
Mode

**AVT** · #11 02-28-2009, 08:31 PM

Oh, and, free cookies for whoever notices what I just did there...

Moldmaker · #12 02-28-2009, 10:14 PM

I see what you think you did there.

Moldmaker · #13 02-28-2009, 10:17 PM

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KMFDM#Etymology

**twatt** · #14 03-01-2009, 02:17 AM

Depeche mode? Oh wow, sign me up. Hoorawww. Big time lame.

**revenant** · #15 03-01-2009, 02:25 AM

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Originally Posted by AVT

Damn right.

Kill
Mother
Fucking
Depeche
Mode

kmfdm is a drug against war!

in all seriousness, I like a lot of DM stuff... some remixed versions of their music is pretty awesome...

**stop!theradio** · #16 03-01-2009, 03:30 AM

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Originally Posted by Hofy

Sounds like a rip off to me. Depeche Mode???!! How about some real music?

How about quit throwing around an opinion as if it's fact?

**JimmiG** · #17 03-01-2009, 09:20 AM

I like the Spotify model... unlimited streaming music for free (with ads) or for a small monthly fee with no ads, and you can play any song you like at any time. If there was a way to use it on a portable device as a regular mp3 player, and there was a little more music available, no one would feel the need to download music illegally.

I think the music industry will find ways to make money and adapt to the new technology eventually. The effort is slowed down by the RIAA and others who are trying to stop or even reverse the evolution of technology (in addition to suing the h*ll out of single mums, the elderly and the deceased). No laws or regulations in the world can artificially keep a market alive if there isn't sufficient demand for the product. People just don't want to pay $18 for a plastic disc with one or two good songs on it these days.

**Hofy** · #18 03-01-2009, 10:31 AM

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Originally Posted by stop!theradio

How about quit throwing around an opinion as if it's fact?

It is a fact.

It just highlights what is wrong with the music industry.
All they want to do is push the garbage that they have absolute control over for maximum profit.

**stop!theradio** · #19 03-01-2009, 12:20 PM

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Originally Posted by Hofy

It is a fact.

It just highlights what is wrong with the music industry.
All they want to do is push the garbage that they have absolute control over for maximum profit.

Yeah, sure, it's a fact.

Get real, dude...LMAO!

**AreEss** · #20 03-01-2009, 01:25 PM

Apple once again completely and utterly fails to catch up to, or even come close to, Zune Marketplace.

Let's see what I got for my $14.99 last month...
- 24 full length albums including bonus tracks.
- 83 individual tracks outside of these albums.
- 12 tracks with absolutely no DRM at all.
- 4 Channels of music I (might) find interesting, updated regularly with new tracks.
- The ability to listen to a track in it's entirety without having to download or buy it first.

... explain to me again why I want to prepay for an album that I can't even preview?

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