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Quote from: mickaveli2001 on May 29, 2011, 04:40:35 AMIt has nothing to do with piracy. Piracy existed in the 90's, and music was easier to bootleg/record than what it is now... HUH?
It has nothing to do with piracy. Piracy existed in the 90's, and music was easier to bootleg/record than what it is now...
Quote from: Infinite- African West Coastin' 2010 on May 29, 2011, 06:54:07 AMQuote from: mickaveli2001 on May 29, 2011, 04:40:35 AMIt has nothing to do with piracy. Piracy existed in the 90's, and music was easier to bootleg/record than what it is now... HUH?In the late 80's/early 90's when cassette tapes where still the primary music format, you were able to copy albums using your stereo by simply putting an album into the CD player, a blank cassette tape (or any tape for that matter) into the cassette deck, and hit record... So easy that any idiot could do it, at any age. Even grandparents could do it. Music industry was fine thenThere were stalls, markets, every day people in schools etc selling, or handing out tapes. You could record those hit songs direct from the radio.. Then the mid-late 90's came, and CD recordable drives were commercially available to anyone, and you knew at least 6 people who had huge lists containing pages and pages of albums to buy for penny's, and could even request albums to get from those people... Napster, and audio galaxy were thriving too in the late 90s/2000... Music industry was doing fine thenBut today however, there is no major free workable file sharing program specific to music, forum links die quite quickly, and for the most who aren't computer smart, then downloading music isn't very easy, and it's very controlled now. typing in "free MP3's" or trying to google for free music takes you to paying websites, and subscriptions and memberships. Where do the general internet users find them?.. There are no cassette tapes anymore, and there isn't that large number of people you could go to, to look through their listsThis BS excuse about the internet being the cause and decline of sales in the music industry is just a convenient excuse for lazy industry suits, and until people wake up and realise that, then they're going to be continually blinded by the lies as a result from the release of lazy, sloppy attempts at music... I don't want to spend my money on amateur electronic beats with auto-tuned lazy flow lyrics, with 1-2 half decent songs, and I sure as fk don't want to buy their re-cycled "classics", and "greatest hits" that I have 10x from "bought" CD's already, and many more of us feel and act the same
It's a disguise to try and conceal a rappers lack of creative ability. Hustling, image, and "swag" (my god, I hate that word) take precedence over talent, and because big labels can push these rappers over TV/radio/publications to the fully recognized level, where everyone is aware of themMe personally - I hate talentless kids making big money.... Why? Because somewhere, for every talentless person with a deal, there is a talented kid who can play numerous instruments, and has an artistry intellect is down in some low paying job somewhere, which isn't right.Picture your child, who has spent years - most of his life - attending music classes, writing music, learning instruments, working to spend money on equipment, and spending every bit of free time and energy mastering his craft, while some bozo who has a 2 year hobby to want to be a big rapper for fame and bragging-rights purposes strikes a big deal, while your child looses out.. Somewhere that is happening, and is happening regularlyLabels have a responsibility to ensure the future survival and level of quality in the music industry first and foremost, while profit should be a very close second, but what we see now is shareholders first, profit second, business investment third, so on, and so on, with quality being away down the list... Good for them, but bad for consumer confidence, and dependability for getting value for money, which is why the industry (in a physical product sense - CD's etc) is suffering from a sales point
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