news.yahoo.com— First things first: Overall album sales for the January 1-April 2 period are down 16.6% to 117.1 million units, led -- or perhaps misled -- by a 20.5% decline in CD album sales.
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@burke: Please stop with the infantile semantics argument. I'm no fan of the RIAA for sure, but the point is that you end up with something you didn't pay for. I don't care if you want to call it "copyright infringement" - the point is you are receiving a product with no money exchanged. Stealing, theft, piracy, whatever. Don't hide behind the words you choose to assign to it. Just own up to the fact that it's taking something and giving nothing back.
That is the way it will eventually go. Music will be an almost entirely online distribution.The record companies will be pretty much phased out over time, as it's obviously already starting now. They only have themselves to blame though. Eventually they won't be able to keep their heads above water and will have to call it quits and admit defeat caused by their own lack of foresight.Besides, these days with computers, a $100,000 recording studio is contained in one application, a couple of microphones and the instruments. That is all you need for a very decent recording. I've done amazing recordings with nothing but instruments and an adapter to jack straight in to a sound card. Of course, that was just playing around, but the recordings made in N-Track and Cakewalk came out exceptionally clear. A few years later I made recordings with a band using a mixer, microphones, the instruments and a computer. It sounded pretty good. With some experimentation and tweaking, you can actually put that small amount of equipment to use in a way that you might actually be able to pass it off as a professional sound room recording done by some sound engineer over at this or that major label.All artists need now is to learn to promote and do it well and need a way to pay for their gigs. If they plan on touring, they will need the money for that. Point is, when artists really learn to utilize the Internet, record companies won't have a purpose anymore. We don't need their million dollar recording studios anymore and at that point we won't need their promotion. We will actually have a choice of how to write our music, how to promote it and won't be shafted out of millions of dollars. We won't OWE the f**king labels money anymore as most signed bands do.
We've heard the sounds of the dinosaurs eating their young for years now. And now the dinosaurs are wondering why they're numbers are dwindling towards extinction.
If they had decent f**king music maybe people would buy it. Since they don't I will just support the artist who do have good music, i figure I know I am giving directly to the band if I go to their concert rather then pay for the RIAA to rape me
I'd have to agree with a comment I saw above, to be honest I feel the REAL indie music industry needs to profit. It's all about bands helping each other out, if you're on the road and see an indie band you enjoy, buy their CD, keep in touch in case you're interested in a future tour with them. Many of the "major" bands out there deserve to suffer just as a majority of indie artists are doing, many of the bands (Audioslave for example) just build you up to let you down. We invest our money into their albums and shows and then 3 or 4 years later the band splits up.Indie artists seem to have a long life span, they spend time on their albums AND they're cheap! $5.00 for an indie album of AMAZING quality, maybe 10 dollars at most as opposed to $15-$20.The record industry is just a big bank, getting signed today doesn't mean what it did back in the day.
in an occurrence probably as rare as seeing the light off when you open the refrigerator, hard-core ex-dopeboy-hustler-do-what-it-takes-to-feed-my-baby-hip-hop fans and naive-but-well-intentioned-neo-cons can agree:the death of mainstream hip-hop would be a good thing.
www.want2bdiscoveredcom helps unsigned and indie label music artists get their music out there!! Its a FREE service to EVERYONE! People who want to hear new music and to all of the music artists ITS FREE! CD's cost too much and the artists dont make much off of it anyway! What sucks to us is theres so many groups out there that play unbelievable music and will probably never make it because record labels are too greedy! Thats a loss to the world to miss out on unknown bands just because they might not bring in alot of dollars! Thats a shame!! We make no money off of our artists and do everything we can to get their music out there!!
stealthboyApr 10, 2007
@burke: Please stop with the infantile semantics argument. I'm no fan of the RIAA for sure, but the point is that you end up with something you didn't pay for. I don't care if you want to call it "copyright infringement" - the point is you are receiving a product with no money exchanged. Stealing, theft, piracy, whatever. Don't hide behind the words you choose to assign to it. Just own up to the fact that it's taking something and giving nothing back.
chrismgtisApr 10, 2007
That is the way it will eventually go. Music will be an almost entirely online distribution.The record companies will be pretty much phased out over time, as it's obviously already starting now. They only have themselves to blame though. Eventually they won't be able to keep their heads above water and will have to call it quits and admit defeat caused by their own lack of foresight.Besides, these days with computers, a $100,000 recording studio is contained in one application, a couple of microphones and the instruments. That is all you need for a very decent recording. I've done amazing recordings with nothing but instruments and an adapter to jack straight in to a sound card. Of course, that was just playing around, but the recordings made in N-Track and Cakewalk came out exceptionally clear. A few years later I made recordings with a band using a mixer, microphones, the instruments and a computer. It sounded pretty good. With some experimentation and tweaking, you can actually put that small amount of equipment to use in a way that you might actually be able to pass it off as a professional sound room recording done by some sound engineer over at this or that major label.All artists need now is to learn to promote and do it well and need a way to pay for their gigs. If they plan on touring, they will need the money for that. Point is, when artists really learn to utilize the Internet, record companies won't have a purpose anymore. We don't need their million dollar recording studios anymore and at that point we won't need their promotion. We will actually have a choice of how to write our music, how to promote it and won't be shafted out of millions of dollars. We won't OWE the f**king labels money anymore as most signed bands do.
marklonApr 10, 2007
its not a industry its a Mafia.. and yes i do my part to bring it down... STW 4 ever
lilrabbitfoofooApr 10, 2007
We've heard the sounds of the dinosaurs eating their young for years now. And now the dinosaurs are wondering why they're numbers are dwindling towards extinction.
jagnum1fanApr 10, 2007
If they had decent f**king music maybe people would buy it. Since they don't I will just support the artist who do have good music, i figure I know I am giving directly to the band if I go to their concert rather then pay for the RIAA to rape me
iboxApr 10, 2007
Sounds great, original sound... unless you can get them to dance to choreographed music the record companies will have none of it
uprisingApr 11, 2007
I'd have to agree with a comment I saw above, to be honest I feel the REAL indie music industry needs to profit. It's all about bands helping each other out, if you're on the road and see an indie band you enjoy, buy their CD, keep in touch in case you're interested in a future tour with them. Many of the "major" bands out there deserve to suffer just as a majority of indie artists are doing, many of the bands (Audioslave for example) just build you up to let you down. We invest our money into their albums and shows and then 3 or 4 years later the band splits up.Indie artists seem to have a long life span, they spend time on their albums AND they're cheap! $5.00 for an indie album of AMAZING quality, maybe 10 dollars at most as opposed to $15-$20.The record industry is just a big bank, getting signed today doesn't mean what it did back in the day.
treypidationApr 11, 2007
in an occurrence probably as rare as seeing the light off when you open the refrigerator, hard-core ex-dopeboy-hustler-do-what-it-takes-to-feed-my-baby-hip-hop fans and naive-but-well-intentioned-neo-cons can agree:the death of mainstream hip-hop would be a good thing.
want2bdiscoverdApr 18, 2007
www.want2bdiscoveredcom helps unsigned and indie label music artists get their music out there!! Its a FREE service to EVERYONE! People who want to hear new music and to all of the music artists ITS FREE! CD's cost too much and the artists dont make much off of it anyway! What sucks to us is theres so many groups out there that play unbelievable music and will probably never make it because record labels are too greedy! Thats a loss to the world to miss out on unknown bands just because they might not bring in alot of dollars! Thats a shame!! We make no money off of our artists and do everything we can to get their music out there!!