Posted on 03/14/2011 6:15:06 PM PDT by decimon
Agreed. I remember the days of having tape trading networks and label catalogs trying to keep up with good music you would never be exposed to any other way. Word of mouth was great and I get a bit misty eyed thinking about it but the internet has made it easier for so many bands to survive. And it looks like the record labels were right to try and shut out anything that didn’t fit their mold . . . because as soon as they lost absolute control they were finished.
Ah yes, the wonderful experience of extricating the "jewel case" from its cellophane prison only to have it disintegrate the first time it's open.
“Bon Jovi’s lead singer blames Steve Jobs and iTunes for killing the music business.”
Not exactly. It did, however, break the music distribution monopolies, just like craigslist, ebay and google broke the print media monopolies for information distribution and advertising, thereby killing the newspaper and magazine business.
The Internet simply allowed truly efficient markets to exist without the distortions of monopolies, thereby exposing the real value of a variety of things.
Like music, for example. Now we know that songs are worth: 99 cents. Of course, they always were worth only that, but the music distribution monopolies operated to keep their prices artificially high.
That’s a good idea. Record the vinyl before it goes bad from multiple playings.
No savvy employer is going to be hiring when the dollar is unstable, stocks are akin to placing bets in Vegas and Obamacare is promising to be a nightmare with doctors quitting, death panels and brand spanking new Obamacare taxes begin to be collected from the working stiffs who are likely to lose their jobs when the costs for the debacle start rolling in.
In my lifetime I have seen, owner 78s, 45s, LPs, 8 Track, Cassette, reel to reel, CDs and finally MP3s/digital music.
Stealing is a separate issue, but the digital era has made it mainstream, condoned, generational.
I don’t think he’d do very well in either one of those markets.
I can’t stand B.J. musically or politicslly, but he’s right. The music business is over - I know because I work in it and have watched it disintegrate.
Another advantage to downloading music is you don’t risk personal injury like you do opening a CD case.
I thought it was the bad music.
They also missed the sound of opening their CD case and hearing the snap of the plastic hinge as you put just a little to much effort into opening the CD, rendering the case now useless.
"Kids today have missed the whole experience of putting the headphones on, turning it up to 10, holding the jacket, closing their eyes and getting lost in an album; and the beauty of taking your allowance money and making a decision based on the jacket, not knowing what the record sounded like, and looking at a couple of still pictures and imagining it," he told the magazine.
They have also lost the anger of realizing that you were ripped off by buying an album with an awesome cover only to realize that the music itself was crap, and completely unlike anything you would imagine from the cover art. Why is an uninformed customer considered a virtue?
Well, no. Stores closed everywhere, making it impossible to buy cds.
Y E S. Free downloads and file sharing destroyed the music business.
Great point about it opening up the industry. One example I know of is a duo called Pomplamoose. They would have never been accepted by the music industry. Now, they have become popular enough via youtube and iTunes that they have no need nor desire to be part of it.
Vinyl should survive. CDs don’t have the same magic as Vinyl.
And CDs are ridiculously easy to either copy or turn into mp3s. The record industry had a problem when CD players and CD burners came out in computers.
Sell the Vinyl first, then the digital download. skip the easily duplicated CD.
With most systems and most existing pieces of vinyl, CD is better. With a great system and fresh vinyl, it’s a different story.
why would store close everywhere if there are customers to buy cd. Its because there are no customers thus store close down
I’m inclined to agree. Obviously there are talented people out there, but they simply don’t give me the emotional wallop that the performers of earlier decades gave. I’ve always been open to innovation and I must admit that after taking my son’s advice and listening to the RHCPs I was pleasantly surprised. But, I’ll never understand rap and hip hop. Don’t get me wrong, I can see how today’s youth take to it. I just don’t understand why they insist that I listen to it. These guys parade around town and you can hear their car audio systems from over a block away. This is no hype - in fact, I’ve even felt my car vibrate from their sound waves. This is absolutely ridiculous. They can invade the sanctity of home and hearth and without a search warrant. If anyone thinks this is okay then let’s engage in a conversation. When you speak I get to beat on a garbage can lid with a baseball bat. Let’s see how receptive you are to this.
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