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Originally Posted by kane
If you think that there is a glutton of garbage out there now to listen to and watch, wait until the masses have control of it. The day that Bob and his garage band have the same access to the same amount of ears and eyes as The Rolling Stones is the day we will be lost in a swirling mass of shit and finding anything worth listening to will become a part time job. Trust me, for several years I made my living writing about music. Every week I got no less than 40-50 CDs that record labels were releasing and they were hoping I would review them or write about the band. 90% of it was trash. And this is back pre-internet which means someone listened to it and thought it was good enough to invest money into and it was still terrible. Imagine what it will be like when anyone with $200 and a garage can release an album world wide.
The old saying is that you get what you pay for. Those that feel downloading music is not stealing and those that insist on doing it will eventually get exactly what they pay for which is nothing.
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so we should thank the record company for screwing over the artist and making the choice for us
bullshit
the fact is there are proven examples of artist successfully launching themselves using peer to peer
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Coulton
release all his work under creative common
he got his song featured in GH
he wrote and song the "i'm alive " song from portal.
without the record company taking 90% the fans who bought banana and bought the music from him, or asked him to play in their home town thru eventful more than made up for the "lost sales" from piracy.
maria digby covered other peoples songs on youtube
sick puppy gave their music away for free
i did the spike launch for project wyze that got them signed. and they made more money from that launch then they made for the album pushed by the mega corp that signed them.
we have been working with dozens of artist to do the same thing, small time success without the 90% ass raping is way easier to accomplish and will make you the same amount of money.
the fact is what you consider trash i might enjoy and vice versa, letting everyone make the decision for themselves is definately better then the record companies ass raping the artist so they can "tell us what to like"