ScarabGator wrote:Saint John wrote:STORY_TELLER wrote:And at that point, I'll be jumping up and down and hailing them reaching an honest gold status. When Journey reached gold with individual albums it was because 500,000 people bought it. That's an honest quantifiable measurement of the size of the fan base and sales income earned.
I don't care who set the rule, this double disk math is not honest - for ANY band. And you know it-
Your logic sucks a big, black cock. What about when people bought vinyl, then 8 track, then cassette and finally CD??? Should there be some fucking sytem to back and try and figure out how many people had multiple purchases? Or are you telling me that of the 14 million copies of Journey's GH that no one bought it 2, 3, 4 and 5 times. Call the RIAA right fucking
now and inform them that GH is
NOT 14X Platinum and that YOU know how many times Platinum it
really is...or just shut the fuck and accept the fact that Revelation is Gold
already.
Try to answer this!!!!
Are you two serious? Are you really going to split that fine a hair in an effort to support your agenda? SJ you're a bigger joke than the RIAA's math and you've got as much depth as a puddle in vegas after a 10 second drizzle during its hottest summer. (take time to think about that, you know you need to).
Gator the fact that you even said what you said tells me you're not working with very much upstairs so, run along and have another beer.
Now that the childish insult game is over, SJ, or should I say, Rockin Deano wannabe, here's my answer to your ridiculous retort (pay attention gator, this is what thinking people do):
The format of a recording has no individual affect on the total sales figures tallied. They are all counted as a single unit regardless of format, be they one cassette, one 8-track, one vinyl album, or 1 CD. They are all tallied accumulatively from the day they go on sale until they are no longer made available for purchase. That is why the GH's album, be it sold on cassette or CD, has tallied as high as it has to date.
As to your "multiple purchase" scenario: A normal person would apply the laws of averages here, but lets face it, you're not normal. If by example lets say GH's sold 14 million copies, does that mean exactly and precisely 14 million people own it? Of course not. But average it out and the vast majority of those figures are reasonably equating one unit sold per person.
You really think TBF reached platinum because
most of the fans purchased more than one copy? Seriously? Why would you bring up such a ridiculous point? Did a scattered few die hards here and there buy more than one? Sure I believe that. Do they measure in the hundreds of thousands? C'mon, you're not this dumb, right? And as such it's a ridiculous hair splitting point to bring up and tout as a valid counter argument to the point I was making, which is:
Every copy of Revelation has two CD's so each unit sold, by RIAA math, counts as two units, not one.
EVERY. SINGLE. COPY.
That means
should Revelation go platinum, to those who don't know better (i.e. you, scarabgator, etc.), they will think and likely tout it sold as many units as any other single platinum album from any other band.
This is about giving accurate credit for an honest achievement. Not touting some loophole in a rule that hasn't been updated and closed to reflect what's in the package (as Monker pointed out). The measurement for comparison is inaccurate and false on its face. It's not genuine. When Neal and co. place the placard trophy for a platinum sales figure on Revelation up on the wall next to their other platinum trophies, deep down they'll know they didn't truly match the distribution they achieved on those other single albums.
So give it a rest SJ. Do what you do best. Go drown the jaded, issue laden, lump of tissue between your ears in cheap beer, continue to pretend you're Rockin Deano, and leave the reasonable thinking to the normal folk.
