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Posted by: Radiofreeeuropa 1 year, 9 months agoThe music business is dead, passed on! It is no more! It has ceased to be! It's expired and gone to meet it's maker! It's a stiff! Bereft of life, it rests in peace! If it weren't nailed to it's perch it 'd be pushing up the daisies! It's metabolic processes are now history! it's off the twig! It's kicked the bucket, shuffled off it's mortal coil,
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Radiofreeeuropa
March 19, 2008, 7:18 a.m.As much about the failed economic policies of the past 30 years as about the Music industry itself. Is it dead? In a sense, yes. Will it be resurrected? That is the larger question, we are now in a period of flux. Perhaps something better will emerge. Trent Reznor seems to think so. As does Peter Gabriel and David Byrne. But only if Artists stand together and demand it.
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AntiNeoCon
March 19, 2008, 8:16 a.m.I don't know about the industry being dead, but I do not enjoy today's music as much as the older music. Noise is not music to me....and I would enjoy hearing the singer but today it seems the singer and the band are at the same volume level making it harder for a lot of us to understand the lyrics.
Gimme the old crooners, at least you could hear what they were singing about. :)
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Radiofreeeuropa
March 19, 2008, 9:10 a.m.FTA-What is a sound economic practice? One that is fair to all who participate in it. Henry Ford was called a "class traitor" for paying his factory workers a good wage and generally treating them well. But he understood what today's junk bond traders, profiteers, and self aggrandizing leeches do not. That to sell lot's of widgets, the buyers must have the capital to purchase them. If Ford's own employees didn't make enough money to buy his model Ts, how could he sell very many?
Roosevelt too, was called a class traitor. It has been said that J. P. Morgan's family kept newspapers with pictures of Roosevelt out of his sight, and in one Connecticut country club...mention of his name was forbidden as a health measure, to prevent strokes and seizures. In Kansas a man went down into his cyclone cellar and announced "he would not emerge until Roosevelt was out of office." (While he was there, his wife ran off with a traveling salesman.)
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Jaydee40
March 19, 2008, 9:22 a.m.All good comments and graphs but kinda all over the place, maybe you could have called it something else. I liked what Peter Gabriel Said about artists not being property of record companies. While some may blame the economy for loses in revenue in the music industry it's the fans that are at the top of the list for reasons for it's demise. We the people who listen to music refuse to pay 20 dollars to buy a disc that may have two or three good songs on it and download it for free instead. Copyrights have gone the way of the dodo and the industry failed to adjust for that. With to lose of revenue from record sales there is less money to go along and that leaves many labels scrambling, they need to be more selective with artists and try to time releases with other events to build up support and interest.
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gamahuche
March 19, 2008, 9:58 a.m.Seems like a long time since the last Music Story..
That was the Plastic People, et.al., and they're playing here in Kutna Hora this weekend! We had a cpl of tickets on one side for you but guess it will have to be next time :)
in this story I learned more from the macro-picture than from the music model. I stoppped being an active consumer, except for live gigs, a long time ago. There's always someone interesting showing up and an invitation - a couple of weeks ago to the US Ambassador's Residence where a blind jazz-pianist friend from VT was scheduled to play a benefit for organisations offering assistance to physically challenged people. Due to cancelled flight connections and weather problems he arrived very late and only played a couple of numbers but his band was there and a local guitar-player, American long-term resident in Prague, played a sensational gig. The residence is a fabulous 30's mansion of immense elegance and apparently the most luxurious in the world [?!]
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crespi
March 19, 2008, 10:31 a.m.***little notes in air***
"Internet killed the video star..."
Seriously, the music industry tried a stranglehold, and creativity (and consumers) ultimately rebel.
(European MTV has GREAT videos but we Americans aren't allowed to see them for some reason...)
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stephen-johnson
March 19, 2008, 10:51 a.m.The reason for the decline of the music industry is simple: because of rampant music piracy, record companies and distributors are unable to make a profit.
Over the past 25 years or so, the video market has gone from videocassettes to Blu-Ray DVDs, while the music industry is still stuck with 16-bit CDs. Sadly, piracy is picking up in the video arena as well. In the coming years, look for video innovation to stop as well.
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trnscndr
March 19, 2008, 12:08 p.m.You are so cynical! I love it!
I'm wondering though, even if it weren't dead, at this point, wouldn't you want to put it out of OUR misery?
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not2needy
March 19, 2008, 12:16 p.m.IMO, the music of today is dead. I NEVER listen to contemporary music, only oldies, and some jazz.
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Radiofreeeuropa
March 19, 2008, 1:40 p.m.Music isn't dead, and though nostalgia associated with older music is a factor, it isn't the reason most people listen.
There is plenty of great music being made today. The "clear channels" of the world have homogenized everything to the point where most people have simply lost interest. What made music important and relevant in the past was diversity, the independent radio stations that occasionally played something because they liked it, the small label that took a chance on an unknown artist. Now overly market researched and banal pablum is the norm. Perhaps the giants must die, in order to bring about that wonderful scenario where music makers and business are partners with emphasis on music, not business. Where the business is again conducted by entrepreneurs who actually love music. Perhaps...
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Jaydee40
March 19, 2008, 2:35 p.m.Say Radio did you ever post the second part of you censorship in music piece? I have been looking forward to it but haven't seen it yet?
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Jaydee40
March 19, 2008, 3:59 p.m.Rap only makes up one part of the music scene, have you heard any of the other stuff out there? My wife and three kids all swore they would never listen to country but they all put it on their players now along with other things, my youngest just downloaded a Frank Sinatra yesterday. A lot of the older bands are coming out with new stuff as well, David Wilcox included.
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MisterX
March 19, 2008, 4:49 p.m.I know I haven't purchased any CD's in nearly 7 years. I gave up collecting once they began tainting CD's with malware and pushing lawsuits. The cost of the CD wasn't worth it. I don't even listen to music on the radio anymore. I flat out lost interest. I tune into talk radio now.
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joeblowe
March 19, 2008, 4 p.m."It's time to put the corpse of what we know as the record industry in the ground and let some other beautiful things start to grow out of it" - here, I think, is the IMPORTANT idea. Perhaps the music INDUSTRY is, for a fact, dead. Good riddance. I don't see how something as personal as music can be an INDUSTRY anyway. With the greedy suits and agents out of the way, maybe those musicians who have something worthwhile to say will actually have an EASIER time of it. If the internet and medialess distribution had been a reality back when -I- was in a band, who knows? My life could have turned out completely different.
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MisterX
March 19, 2008, 4:40 p.m.Does it then follow that individuals, students, and fans will no longer be threatened by unconscionable legal actions for making efforts to listen to music that would have inspired them to go out and purchase CD's, concert tickets, and posters of hot music divas?
I read somewhere that the RIAA wants a $5/month surcharge tacked on to every internet connection to compensate them for unlimited downloads/uploads. It wouldn't be a half-bad idea, except that the artists are unlikely to see any of it, the taxes and surcharges attached to the $5 fee will inflate it, and the $5 fee will more than likely become $20 inside of 2 years.
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icono1
March 19, 2008, 4:48 p.m.'The Music' is dead.
Put it to rest.
Let something better come
Take its place.
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metalman23
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