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Ctharlhie94:

--- Quote from: Johnny C on 24 Feb 2011, 18:14 ---
--- Quote from: look out! Ninjas! on 24 Feb 2011, 15:48 ---They can only make so many new vinyl listeners though

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and nobody born after 1983 has bought anything new on vinyl

ye gods. what have we been doing this whole time?

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I'm 16 and I'm hoping on getting a Pro-Ject turntable and some nice shiny black discs to play on it, so go figure. But then I am sadly in the microscopic minority of music-listeners my age.

As for the usefulness of labels... I think that until there is an actual alternative to them then they will just survive, and continue to be necessary. Really, there needs to be a viable and satisfactory alternative way of obtaining and listening to music before the label release model can die, the problem is that record companies just keep avoiding the problems and trying to pretend they can carry on in the same way and still release a whole ton of shit (that and somehow Simon Cowell has been allowed to still live for some reason I can't fathom).

Perhaps we'll see the recording industry performing a more and more niche role, releasing physical media as a luxury product. In that sort of context, vinyl makes perfect sense and is actually more valid than CD if it wasn't for the relative obscurity of vinyl now (despite vinyl systems hands down out-performing similarly priced CD systems). The majority of music, then, would be released by the artist directly to the fans.

Ctharlhie94:
You'd think there would always be room for proper studios but sadly those are being let down by record labels too. Abbey Road is one of the last studios in Britain that you can fit a full orchestra in and so it gets a lot of work recording soundtracks, but even that was in danger of being sold off by EMI, and it's all because of the ease of computer recording now. I don't think you can argue that the recording industry isn't becoming more niche.

Johnny C:
that was a joke, everyone

MC_Eating_Disorder:
The record industry has slowly replaced the album with the single as the focal point of music in popular culture since the introduction of the music video and now they're apparently bleeding money because your average consumer barely values music above a cheeseburger as a result of this. The structural framework for bands to create their music and share it with others is still completely intact as far as I can tell.

I just don't see the problem, to be perfectly honest.

paltic:
there are always two types of the so-called "musiclovers" out there: 1.) fan of the artist/band's singles 2.) fan of the band and all of its materials(even if the newer mat'ls are weak). The fan of the singles go to the concerts of the artist/band to raise his/her lighter on his/her favorite song played by the artist/band that night... and later shouts for an encore(hoping for a repeat of that same single or another song from the charts). the other one will sing to most of the artist/bands setlist and most probably payed/earned for the better concert seats. As you can all see there are different degrees of being a "fan". Now to debate over this matter is like comparing apples to oranges.

IMHO an artists should release an album every now and then to serve as a creative exercise and at the same time to have new materials to play on concerts. an artist cannot have "just" singles repeatedly performed in a concerts or mere cover songs. The real artists should dictate their setlist to their viewers/listeners rather than just follow what the fan wants...that separates artists from mere showbands and that's credibility for me.

the new medium  of mp3s and online music:
good - more variety of artists online and are more accessible, the independent artists have a chance to be "known" due to the new platform and venues of music(like myspace or youtube or "gulp" ellen)
bad - the change of trends and hits are faster. the level of fandom and loyalty to artists has decreased in time. the level of love the fanboys of Led Zeppelin in the 70s will never be the same - with say the adoration of the younger generation with Fallout Boy (since their new favorite band changes from day to day or their opinions are affected by forums like this)

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