GooTube Will be The Raun Of Me

While Yoko Ono and her gang Tweeted that DMCA laws need to be strengthened, and GooTube is a prime offender, there are nice little old ladies like this:

Anyone bothering to set her straight?

Anyone even noticing her?

Live and let snooze.

PS, bootlegs of her stuff are still on GooTube, and CD Baby has nothing to do with Orchard (which buys up a lot of major and minor label obscurities just to make GooTube nickels and dimes, and squeeze out some pennies at eMusic). Below, you'll see "credits" on two Raun albums: one is CD Baby and the other is Orchard.

If you're keeping score, she was on major labels twice, about 50 years ago. During the folk boom, she made a forgettable folk album. A few years later, circa '66 or '67, she put out an album (on Kapp) of mostly originals, which had a few very good tracks. Well, two or three, tops. The rest, ok.

A one-shot deal each time she got onto a major label? And no follow-up either time. What she was like in clubs, live, I have no idea. What she did for the next decades? Ditto. She got married, obviously.

A few years ago, when outfits like CD Baby made it easy to self-press albums (and people might think "CD Baby" was a real label, not a vanity con) she went that route. She put out an odd "experimental" album. And she's followed it up with the release of vintage demo session material that she couldn't get interest in way back when.

And now? She's reluctantly tried building a website and being on Twatter. She is feeling somewhat complimented that parasites like "The Orchard" and "CD Baby" have put muddled copies of her music on GooTube.

Shauna is doing better, and always will, because she's a pretty dimwit covering Taylor and Ariana. Raun is of interest to her friends (Farcebook or otherwise) and neighbors, and some fans who have her old vinyl but no longer have a turntable.

Well, as Don Henley sang it, "How bad do you want it? Not bad enough."

She thinks people will listen on GooTube and BUY a better sounding download off iTunes or eMusic? The downloads will sound just as mediocre and...people know how to do a "GooTube to Mp3" free download. Especially on stuff they won't listen to very often.

So who makes money here? Orchard and CD Baby and GooTube will grab a few dimes, and Raun will probably never see a dime. It'll be "not enough royalty to send yet" or "this hasn't paid back our expenses in hoisting your shit to GooTube."

Love that line, "very democratic of them." If you mean that they've uploaded every track instead of just the "good" ones, yeah, I suppose. If you mean "democratic," in the political sense, flip back a few pages in the dictionary and look up "communism." That's where every peasant shares and remains a peasant and copyright doesn't exist.