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Originally Posted by After Shock Media
Sure they do.
Though this was about if people buy stuff once it comes out of if they wait until it is in heavy play.
In every generation Carlos posted - it was full of sheep. Hell it could easily be argued by the words of his post and some of the timeline issues that he too is/was just a sheep and only hopped onto things after they were big. Example hip hop hitting American suburbs in the 80's when it started in the 70's, grunge getting footholds in the mid 80's and not the mid nighties, so forth. To say it in simple words - not until after heavy play and everyone else thinking it is already cool.
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Yeah sure, it has always been that way. There was a fair bit of trouble over here in the 60's and 70's with fights between gangs of mods vs. rockers, skinheads vs. teddyboys, etc etc, you could be in one group but not in another, and it was all about being part of that group, that image. The same is true now but the way I see it is, it is now
so commercialised that the actual product need not have any merit whatsoever. It's all about the marketing budget exploiting these cultural groups absolutely to the hilt and dictating what people hear and see.