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scarred:
internet?

Johnny C:
that's a joke, right

Johnny C:
can something real that we enjoy not just be data for once

Pogotross:

--- Quote from: Johnny C on 19 Sep 2010, 20:43 ---this is an absolutely atrocious climate in which to be in a band, maybe one of the worst climates in history. it's so easy to make music but it's borderline impossible to actually do anything with it.

--- End quote ---

Are YOU serious? This may be the biggest cock-tease of a climate in music history, but you can't tell me you really believe that right now is worse than any time before recorded music, any time before affordable/reliable transit, any time when long-distance phone calls not making it expensive just to try and set up shows rather than simply get to them, when bands were forced to sign to labels to get anywhere, or when young bands were forced to either stay around their homes playing cover songs and weddings in Nowhere, Iowa or move to a large city to even have a sliver of a chance at having any kind of audience bigger than the people they grew up near.

The very fact that you can make "data" that proves your band existed without having to go through some guy who decides if you are marketable or who asks for thousands of dollars means that this is one of the BEST times to exist. Is it easy? NO! Should it be? NO! But it's ridiculous to expect every band that can stay together for a year should do a worldwide tour, or that every single band needs to be able to sell something to every single person that might think about maybe listening to them. Because, let's face it, it's not like borrowing music is some new thing. People more than likely copied their friends' wax cylinders back in the day. Kids have always tried to sit outside of clubs to listen to bands play shows they couldn't get in to see. If there is music around, people will try to consume it.

The difference between then and now is when or who decides a band can tour or make a living off their art. Before, there were guys that were paid to say "ok, this band is good, we'll sign them." But everyone decided those were "bad guys." Now they are dead, and bands and fans have to try and make the decision themselves. One of the ways to do that is to "send demo tapes" to new possible fans instead of labels. That's what free music looks like to me. Cutting out the middle man.

Wasteroo:
I came here to say something but then Pogotross went and said it better than I ever could

edit: not to say that I couldn't afford $10 to drop at a show, absolutely not. I spend the grand majority of time with music that isn't expressly given away, and I'm betting that's true of most people. but I guess if your only source of music is from places where it is given out for free, more power to you, just realize that you're limiting yourself greatly— I sincerely doubt there is very many people who do that though.

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