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Originally Posted by Colmike7
Why don't musicians just accept that standards for a record label to sign someone has dropped and you hear so much terrible music nowadays? Just because you have an album out there doesn't mean 1,000,000+ are going to buy it..
I'm not saying piracy didn't hurt it, but it doesn't hurt sales as much as people say.
They should also add in new income sources to that data like Youtube PPC or anything similar with copyrighted music and videos that the record labels and/or artists are monetizing with now. If it isn't much, then that is killing the industry, too, and that isn't the fault of pirates.
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There are barely any record labels left.
And yeah, piracy did hurt the sales of music. It's not fully responsible but it definitely devastated the financial rewards of being a "star" and took that dream away from most aspiring artists
Look at Paul's graph. Look at the years in which the record industry basically tanked. It was the EXACT years that Napster and Kazaa were running wild.
There is a reason that at The Grammys this year, the chairman of the Recording Academy actually pleaded with viewers to stop pirating music as it is destroying the entire industry.
And also keep this in mind that I saw with my own two eyes:
When I got old enough to play in bars with a fake ID in 1978...there were dozens of "rock clubs" in just a 50 mile radius of where I lived. And there were about a thousand gigs just in the state of Fla. alone to play LIVE music of every sort.
Bands and musicians were everywhere, writing songs, playing out, honing our craft.
That's all gone now. The drinking age rising up to 21 killed a lot of the club scene overnight back in 1980. But it was still very strong up until the mid 1990's, when people simply stopped going out to see live bands in the numbers they once did.
My theory is that with the drinking age being 21 for so long...18, 19, and 20 year old adults never got to go out to clubs and see live music. So they were conditioned to listening to recorded music only for the first 3 years of adulthood. So the clubs catered to them and suddenly no more live music.
Just DJ's and flashing lights.
And with their being no dreams of being a millionaire "rock star" anymore (the record companies are a shell of what they once were), and no place for bands to learn their craft(there is NO replacement for playing live in front of an audience 7 nights a week)...it pretty much has been a devestating "one-two punch" that has led to what you are referring to as "terrible music"
When Rolling Stone magazine talks about DJ's being "artists" it makes me want to throw up. When rap stars talking over simple child like "beats" is called "music"...it's just a slap to the face of real musicians.
In other words...
