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Originally Posted by kane
to me Rick Rubin said it best. He is angry because the record industry used to be in the business of selling art then they changed and now they sell a product. They need to get back to selling art again. These days people are as worried about buying a pop stars clothes from their clothing line or their perfume or other crap and it no longer about the music.
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its a good point but there have always been shitty sell out pop music purely made to sell loads of crap to people. i guess the difference now is that bands who are only interested in the music are now suffering because record sales aren't cutting it anymore and the suits of the music industry don't want to invest in these types anymore since shitty pop music has so many more venues to sell stuff than bands like tool. its about the music for these bands but they also want to make a 'living' (which is far beyond a living for you or me). ok, sure but will it stop artists from wanting to make art if they make only one million instead of ten? ideally, it shouldn't.