If a viable alternative came along
and the publishing companies banded together to try to hang on to the more profitable past rather than trying to work out how to use the technology to their own benefit, then certainly.

The music industry essentially tried to destroy a new form of technology because they a) couldn't work out how to harness it properly and b) had got used to keeping the vast share of record sales money for their own profits.

If mp3s and internet mean anything, it means that bands can release music, accept payment and film gigs for internet release completely without a music labels input. I'm not against paying for music at all.
( Kroney, Tue 14 Sep 2010, 10:24, 1 reply, 15 years ago)

That is true.
But where I suspect we differ is that I don't regard failure to adapt or the music companies failings as reason to download illegally.

I do disagree a fair bit about music companies input. Without some input, we'd spend our lives searching through utter utter dross to find even capable musicians, let alone something we liked. I don't have that time. There needs to be some form of weeding of dross. I'll happily pay just for that. How many 16-18 year old idiots did you know who thought they would be the next big thing when they could barely hold a guitar the right way up, for instance?
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 14 Sep 2010, 10:32, Reply)

a lot of those idiots are in the charts

( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Tue 14 Sep 2010, 10:33, Reply)

"The charts" are hardly the only thing that music companies promote.

( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 14 Sep 2010, 10:35, Reply)

I am aware of that
but I was pointing that a lot of shit comes down through the music companies anyway.

I'm not disagreeing with you. I gig quite a bit and am all too aware of how many shit bands are around who think they are the bollocks. Not us though, we know we're shit.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Tue 14 Sep 2010, 10:38, Reply)

Aye, and I'm not disagreeing that the music industry needs a kick up the bracket.
watch out though for the fine line between "shit because it isn't my taste" and "actually shit because they have no musical talent" - a lot of chart stuff is former rather than latter
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 14 Sep 2010, 10:41, Reply)

that is a fine line
there are a lot of fuckers with very little musical ability around though.

The main reason I hate U2 so much is because their more recent songs sound like they have been written by children.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Tue 14 Sep 2010, 10:45, Reply)