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Originally Posted by H5N1
true enough. I lost patience in the radio a long while back--they play the same damned songs by bands I couldn't give a crap about, followed by 20 minutes of commercials during a '30 minute commercial free ROCK BLOCK!'
one development I believe will prove to be huge for the next generation of 'great bands' is internet radio. you can hear bands and music that 99% of the time would never get play on mainstream stations. stuff that, in the past, would've been huge. that said, I'm not trendy enough to be an indie or underground music fan.
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I am going to go out on a limb here and say its exposure and ease of access? I remember back in the day when you had to wait until friday or Sat night for Headbangers ball to see all your favorite bands and videos. Or wait for your monthly subscription to Hit Parader to show up. Now days its just a click away with your Iphone.
Back then you were anxiously awaiting a release date to go get the cassette or vynal.. Then you would copy that record to tape for your car. Which started all this copy writing stuff anyway. Everyone at some point copied someones cassette or record... BUT it wasnt on the scale as it is today.. Where you had to buy the whole cassette for 8$, now you can pick and chose songs for 1$.
at this point it becomes a numbers game. you have 2.5 million people wanting one song in 1984, they bought 2.5 million cassettes at 8$, now they download that one song for 1$ and forget the rest of the album. How is that going sustain your industry? Losing money on each album? Then you add the ease of piracy today with the technology and its even more devastating to an already failing industry.
Yes sadly piracy is an issue and with a bijillion global internet users, its going to be hard to stop. You have people that are sharing millions of billions of files a day. Some how the brains in music industry need to accept it and embrace that it happens.. Figure out how to use it as a tool to rebound and move forward. I dont have the answers on how to fix it, I just buy what I want or IF I cant buy some obscure hairband anymore, I search the far corners of the earth until I find it.