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When customers own the business
I saw this website a couple of weeks ago and it started me thinking. The site is looking for 25,000 Liverpooleans (’Liverpool people’?) to each donate 20 pounds to communally buy a creative center. I have also seen entire football teams being bought by their fans.
Wellington has a massive music culture. We LOVE our bands. Most of them are heavily indebted to Record Companies.
So why don’t we buy them?
Why don’t Wellingtonians back our bands? Surely between us we can front up the cash to get records created and can all share in the proceeds. We’d offer MASSIVE word of mouth because we’d all have a stake in their success, and it would reduce that now common moral conundrum of illegally downloading music.
I don’t know, but I feel the age of record giants should be coming to an end, maybe the age of bad pop music will shortly follow (who’d back Britney after her recent performance?)
Maybe someones doing it already.
September 14th, 2007 at 8:52 am
Interesting point, although with the demise of the record giants comes major job losses (which hits very close to home).
Also, it’s Liverpudlians :)
September 16th, 2007 at 3:28 pm
Ha ha knew it was something funny.
When one way of doing things ‘dies’ there always seems to crop up a better alternative… Maybe more smaller companies, maybe a different structure?
September 17th, 2007 at 7:25 am
True. As long as all avenues are explored…
Speaking of smaller companies, I just heard about the Chocolate Fish Cafe closing. Breaks my bitter and jaded heart.
September 17th, 2007 at 4:44 pm
oh my goodness yes! You have to join the facebook group ’save the Chocolate fish’. I may do a blog post about it too… cannot believe our council!!!!! What are they thinking??? That place is like a wellington icon!
September 18th, 2007 at 10:48 am
Yeah, Fi sent me the Facebook link! I can’t believe it!