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The "death" of the music industry
Alex C:
I think I might be Dovey's average music consumer because I'm a li'l buzzed right now and all I can keep thinking is that I never think about the stuff Johnny is talking about because all I usually want from music is something that sounds pretty or maybe some ass shaking music. And if I can't find that on the radio, I can pull it up on youtube for free right now. I don't really buy albums anymore, frankly. It's not even like I'm pirating shit all the time to make up for it either. I'm just surrounded by passable to good media all the time now without even trying. I don't even really bother to put a cd on when I'm playing video games anymore. That wasn't the case back when I was playing R-Type on my SNES.
KharBevNor:
Personally, I would never buy (or sell) a digital copy of anything. I'm increasingly querulous about paying for digital subscriber services and so on as well. I suppose it's because I'm a materialist, but in the stricter sense (rather than the lazy, 'LIKES MONEY ETC.' sense).
pwhodges:
--- Quote from: Akima on 22 Feb 2011, 19:50 ---It always seems suspicious to me that some tracks from an album can be snipped out and packaged separately as "hits". If that can be done, where is the value in the collection?
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That's a bit harsh. Taking examples from classical music, is Handel's Messiah any less of a valuable unit because people often extract the Hallelujah Chorus or He Was Despised? Or Purcell's Dido and Aeneas because of Dido's Lament? Or Wagner's Ring cycle because of the Ride of the Valkyries? Highlights can have their place and even sometimes draw people in to the greater whole.
est:
--- Quote from: Ptommydski on 23 Feb 2011, 00:53 ---A lot of stuff that I agree with completely.
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I was coming in here to make a proper reply, but now I don't need to. Thanks!
Patrick:
The talk of vinyl is nice, you guys, but considering the overwhelming popularity of digital sales due to the simple practicality of it all, it isn't much of a stretch to predict that that medium will die with the labels. The less of a disconnect between artist and listener, the less need for the labels to even exist. And like it was mentioned before, sites like Bandcamp are killing the means to even make the disconnect possible.
And considering the contrast of the relatively extreme impracticality of the vinyl medium (which can be measured by how long it takes to access and play any given recording), and considering how these things affect every preceding recording medium, I'm pretty sure vinyl LPs and EPs and singles are all dead as soon as the existing ones are too worn out to play anymore.
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