{"id":2106,"date":"2010-11-06T19:22:21","date_gmt":"2010-11-07T02:22:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelbrandvold.com\/blog\/?p=2106"},"modified":"2010-11-06T19:22:21","modified_gmt":"2010-11-07T02:22:21","slug":"frank-zappa-saw-the-future-of-online-music-sales-20-years-before-it-became-reality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelbrandvold.com\/blog\/2010\/11\/frank-zappa-saw-the-future-of-online-music-sales-20-years-before-it-became-reality\/","title":{"rendered":"Frank Zappa Saw the Future of Online Music Sales 20 Years Before it Became Reality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;&#8230;Nearly twenty years before the advent of online music stores, Zappa had proposed to replace &#8220;phonographic record merchandising&#8221; of music by &#8220;direct digital-to-digital transfer&#8221; through phone or cable TV (with royalty payments and consumer billing automatically built into the accompanying software). In 1989, Zappa considered his idea a &#8220;miserable flop&#8221;&#8230;&#8221; &#8211; wikipedia (Thanks to Lawrence Peryer for the post)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;&#8230;Nearly twenty years before the advent of online music stores, Zappa had proposed to replace &#8220;phonographic record merchandising&#8221; of music by &#8220;direct digital-to-digital transfer&#8221; through phone or cable TV (with royalty payments and consumer billing automatically built into the accompanying software). In 1989, Zappa considered his idea a &#8220;miserable flop&#8221;&#8230;&#8221; &#8211; wikipedia (Thanks to Lawrence [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[413,414,415],"class_list":["post-2106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","tag-digital-music","tag-frank-zappa","tag-online-music-sales"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelbrandvold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelbrandvold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelbrandvold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelbrandvold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelbrandvold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelbrandvold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2106\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelbrandvold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelbrandvold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelbrandvold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}