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Originally Posted by After Shock Media
I really do think each decade says that about the previous decade.
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Well look - maybe it's just me but I started to see this some in the 90s and it snowballed this decade - record companies focusing less on getting talented/good artists and putting out quality albums and focusing more on getting MARKETABLE artists (i.e. hot chicks/guys or "radio friendly" music) and putting out 1-3 decent singles per album, not giving 2 shits about the rest of the album because people will buy the album based on the singles anyways. If record companies' sole goal wasn't how to best get people to pay $15-$20 for 1-3 songs, people might be more apt to buy albums vs. pirate them.
Sure, there's a lot of freeloaders that could care less about "supporting their bands" and happily download thousands of songs, loving them all and thinking "who gives a shit, I'm getting my shit for free, everyone else can just deal with it". But there are a lot of people that WILL buy albums if they know the band is good or feel the album might be good even if they can dl it all through torrents or hear it whenever they want on YouTube. But there's just less and less quality stuff out there that such people would want to buy.
Hell, Lonely Island is a fucking comedy act and is putting out better songs than most legitimate artists right now - THAT is sad.