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Originally Posted by Jyqm
The Internet hasn't "screwed up" the music business any more than the printing press "screwed up" the publishing industry. The Internet is opening up whole new worlds of opportunities for musicians who otherwise might never have a chance to be noticed or get their music out to the public. Just because the embittered monks in the cloisters of the major record labels are pissing and moaning because nobody wants to buy their over-priced gilded manuscripts of crap anymore doesn't mean the music business is "screwed up." And if it is, it's their own fault. Greedy, reactionary record company executives are the enemy here, not the Internet.
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I respectfully disagree. Nobody complained about greedy record company executives before music was available for
free. Sure, you might have thought that LP's and CD's were expensive, but everybody dutifully ran to the store to buy them anyway. And what are they to do these days but increase prices when the profits continue to decrease? It's a whole messed up circle, and yes, I still blame the internet for that ever happening. Nobody listens to albums anymore, nobody is lying on the ground smoking dope thinking about what their next record their going to buy is (thanks, Stevie). She's completely right when she says it's all fragmented these days, it comes and goes, like a fast roller coaster.
Another point of view. I manage a videostore, and 7 years ago, when I just started working there, business was blooming. Nowadays I am wondering if I will still have a job in 6 months. And I swear, every time a person comes walking in and doesn't rent a DVD because 'they have downloaded them all from the internet already', I want to bitch slap them.