How’s George Jones doing in CD?
Lots of people are ignoring new music in favor of older music in the form of vinyl.
Yeah, I listened to XMU the other day just to see if I could glean any gems from the current college/indie scene.
Not much joy at all, and a lot of stuff that sounded like it was made by people who (a) can’t sing, (b) have an extremely limited sense of melody and/or harmony, (c) are going crazy playing with ACID or Fruity Loops software and don’t really know what they’re doing, (d) are just really depressed and want to die, (e) all of the above.
OK, I did like a few songs by Nada Surf, a song by My Morning Jacket was mildly intriguing, and Blitzen Trapper’s “Furr” is a weirdly catchy folk ditty. But other than that..GONG!
Haven’t bought any CDs lately because I can’t find anything I’d really like to listen to for 12-14 songs.
This was not a good day for Boy George either, doubt he made a dime lol.
We're DOOMED !!!!
And as I read on related threads that Hollywood is negotiating
talent downward and that pro sports will soon follow, does anyone here think their cable bills will notice?
I remember when CD’s were first coming out the software companies warned the record labels that going digital was going to guarantee lost revenue because it was always going to be easy to copy and share. And that was before anyone ever even pondered the idea of Napster.
Today, we are back to the style of selling music like it was throughout most of the 1950's--music sales by individual song.
In my opinion, what may finally put an end of Compact Disc sales is when online retailers start offering their music in lossless formats such as Apple Lossless, FLAC or possibly WMA Lossless formats. With improving Internet bandwidth and cheap server storage nowadays, we could just see that happen within the next 3-4 years. The most likely lossless format to become widely commercially available for download will be Apple Lossless, since the iPod nano, iPod classic, iPod touch and iPhone support the format and the higher end players from Creative, Microsoft and Sandisk could upgrade to play the Apple Lossless format with a firmware upgrade.
Time to bail out Feist.
“It’s the music, stupid.”
I can’t see recorded music making a comeback economically. It won’t go away altogether, but it will never be the cash cow for the record companies that it once was. In fact, I wonder if the whole notion of “record companies” is soon to become an antiquated one. To be sure there will always be music, but it will become increasingly an undifferentiated commodity.