Let the ''music industry'' die.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

Disagree.  You know how much money it takes to subsidize an 87 piece symphony orchestra?  Or a full-fledged opera company?  They need to pay dozens and dozens of people, maintain dozens and dozens of extremely expensive instruments, etc.  They aren't surviving off of those ticket sales alone, the album sales (via iTunes and actual physical albums) are necessary to stay afloat.  If everyone is pirating the Boston Pops or the King's College Choir or whatever there's basically no way they can make up the loss.

And how many different recordings of Beethoven's Fifth by second and third rate orchestras do we need?  (Not that the two groups you specifically named are second or third-rate.)  There are over one hundred symphony orchestras in the United States alone.  Obviously they can't all make their money by selling recordings to people who never come to see them play in person. For the vast majority of classical music groups, the recordings they sell aren't being bought so much for the music, but rather they exist as a tangible thank-you from the group for a donation.  Sorta like the chatchkes public broadcasting offers during pledge drives.

[dead0man]

Music will be much better off when the ''music industry'' is dead and buried.

Indeed, Dinosaurs will Die.  But you can't kill copyright, artists deserve to get paid.  The problem is the industry (and maybe the verbage of the law) not the idea of copyrights.

Dead0 I had no idea you were a 90's teen.

Sort of, I graduated HS in '91.

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Blame Lief

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Indeed, but I've given them plenty over the years.  I only buy non-"label" music.  I'll steal the hell out of some Aerosmith or Soundgarden, but I buy my DIY punk stuff (for the most part).

[Jacobtm]

How would most people hear of them without the marketing though?

Concerts
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[dead0man]

Indeed.  Think about it.  Are your favorite bands ones you learned about from an ad in a magazine or because you saw them on Leno?  No, most people get the music they like through the oldest of marketing techniques....word of mouth.  Older siblings, friends, etc.  Unless you're a tool and listen to top 40 stations, but then you don't really like music do you?

[Link]

To my young friends if you want to download free music because you are a cheap b@st@rd just say that.

And if you are going to say "cheap bastard" then just say "cheap bastard"!  This isn't the damned Barney and Friends forum y'know?

Au contraire mon ami.  I got dinged hard in a thread about a porn star.   My crime?  Actually stating (without profanity) what this woman actually did to pay the bills.  The mods who were anxious to get this porn actress into preschool classrooms were not happy about me having an honest discussion about this woman's work.

Mechaman, we should make you a mod.

[Silent Hunter]

Indeed.  Think about it.  Are your favorite bands ones you learned about from an ad in a magazine or because you saw them on Leno?

Er, not in that exact form, but definitely yes. I got into La Roux via listening to it on the radio and I bought Kasabian's "Club Foot" solely based on its appearance as the theme tune to a Sky 1 drama.

[Mechaman]

To my young friends if you want to download free music because you are a cheap b@st@rd just say that.

And if you are going to say "cheap bastard" then just say "cheap bastard"!  This isn't the damned Barney and Friends forum y'know?

Au contraire mon ami.  I got dinged hard in a thread about a porn star.   My crime?  Actually stating (without profanity) what this woman actually did to pay the bills.  The mods who were anxious to get this porn actress into preschool classrooms were not happy about me having an honest discussion about this woman's work.

Mechaman, we should make you a mod.

BY the way, this is my new sig.

Eat it people!  Link himself just endorsed Mecha's run for moderator!

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Indeed.  Think about it.  Are your favorite bands ones you learned about from an ad in a magazine or because you saw them on Leno?

Er, not in that exact form, but definitely yes. I got into La Roux via listening to it on the radio and I bought Kasabian's "Club Foot" solely based on its appearance as the theme tune to a Sky 1 drama.

Sky 1 drama? Tut, tut... ()