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My guess, in about 10 years everyone will be Indy because the net will bankrupted the majors.
Quote from: M Dogg on January 09, 2008, 08:20:26 PMMy guess, in about 10 years everyone will be Indy because the net will bankrupted the majors.The net didn't bankrupt the majors. The majors tried to shove contrived no talent ass clowns down our collective throats. They fucked themselves, and our oligopolistic media - MTV / BET / VH1 all owned by Viacom, Clear Channel owning 2000 radio stations across the country.I laugh when I hear people say the net killed the music industry. I guarantee you porn is downloaded 1000's of times more, and they aren't having any issues.
They are just shifting the blame. It happens all the time. Young outcasts get shotguns and kill people in their school, it's videogames causing it. Same shit. Lately in Germany there's this discussion because foreigners beat up people for no reason all the time. So some politicans with no nuts go ahead and want to soften the tv program. How retarded is that? It happens all the time. People are shifting the blame towards something that is less akward ciriticizing, or that has less of a lobby to counter.
You've got to be ignorant to suggest that a good label deal for Bob Dylan would work for anybody. Bob Dylan is a legend. He's likely one of the most talented musicians that ever lived, at least from a songwriting standpoint.... there isn't a rapper alive with the clout that Bob Dylan has, he doesn't even need to promote his albums, his fans will seek them out, find where they are available, and then buy two copies so they can save one. So of course an indy deal works better for Dylan, he gets more per c.d. and will likely sell just as many or more on an indy label.... especially considering that most of his fans are sympathetic hippies who hate the man and would love to stick it to Sony by only buying Dylan's independent releases.
Quote from: Trauma-san on January 10, 2008, 01:54:07 PMYou've got to be ignorant to suggest that a good label deal for Bob Dylan would work for anybody. Bob Dylan is a legend. He's likely one of the most talented musicians that ever lived, at least from a songwriting standpoint.... there isn't a rapper alive with the clout that Bob Dylan has, he doesn't even need to promote his albums, his fans will seek them out, find where they are available, and then buy two copies so they can save one. So of course an indy deal works better for Dylan, he gets more per c.d. and will likely sell just as many or more on an indy label.... especially considering that most of his fans are sympathetic hippies who hate the man and would love to stick it to Sony by only buying Dylan's independent releases.That's not what I said anyway, but sure. So them hippies refused to buy Dylan's records while he was on a major, but now that he's gone indie he's all of a sudden going platinum again because the hippies of the '60s forty years later decided to make a statement, hundreds of thousands at a time, without someone initiating the action? How reasonable do you think that sounds?
I beat the shit out of 20 year old hippies all the time.... which leads me to my next question. You're not a hippie, are you?