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Originally Posted by DamianJ
So, Paul, let's assume you're right, and the internet has ruined the record industry, why do you think the record industry is now seeing year on year increases it couldn't have dreamed of, thanks solely to digital sales. That is, sales on the internet?
I don't understand how 'the internet' can both ruin an industry and save it. It seems a tad incongruous to your specious argument (and I use the word argument very loosely).
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DamienJ. look I get it, Paul is a clueless douche and mostly wrong about most things, but seriously you're wrong here. Artists are fucked now.. It's so bad it's now ok to "sell out" and let a company use your song for advertising.. It's the only way you'll make enough money to justify being little more than a vagrant with musical ability unless you're super commercial or win the jackpot of a break-out hit. Did you know an artist gets paid about a THIRD OF A CENT from Spotify? It's so bad it makes iTunes look GOOD.
Yay every crappy highschool band can record at home and put shitty music up somewhere and then have to get real jobs because there is even less money today for them then there was before. Don't piss on my leg and tell me it's raining. There are favorable aspects of the new order and there are totally fucked aspects. It is what it is and it's just lucky there is a secondary currency of groupie blowjobs to make it at all enticing..