The recording industry release a new survey today that says that file sharing is REALLY hurting CD sales. It's same tired, old rhetoric that they have been spouting off for some time, and it is still bullshit. I download music for free. I also have been known to speed and other illegal activities, yet I still buy CD's. I still buy CD's on the day they are released, every now and then.
But most of the CD's out there suck. The music industry spits out bad record after bad record. They pay Clear Channel to play the record. The crap sells because that's all most people hear, and their standards are constantly being lowered. Then the record companies, now believing that they have a winning formula, put out six CD's that sound like the first, copies of a bad original. They then pay Clear Channel, ad infinitum. I download music to try out new stuff, to see if I like more than one song on an album, or because I just can't wait to get that music. If I find something I like, I go buy the CD. Now it says something that I rarely download music from major labels, and I buy even less. The indies are benefitting, and they aren't bitching so much about the internet. Matador records and Mint records are both great indies with great sites that keep me always looking for new stuff there. But they can't pay Clear Channel. And I try not to. Maybe what the labels need is to stop fighting me and the rest of the record buying public, and let us find and appreciate good artists, and profit by helping those artists reach even more people. Not forcing Backstreet Boys or any other "b(l)and" product.
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