| I, for one, am all for the death of the "rock star". For some reason, every kid in the world thinks he/she should be in a band, regardless of actual musical ability or talent. Perhaps it's because you can walk into a guitar store with $500 and come out with a very usable home studio, or $100 for a guitar w/ amp and case. How can you value music as a consumer if it appears to take so little monetary investment to make it? Back when recording studios were recording studios, vs. the dumpy-assed "home studio" shit everyone's got now (including myself), and there weren't 30 different brands of guitar vying for the sub-$500 market, it LOOKED like it cost a shitload to make a CD. And it did.
Nowadays, bands can record themselves at little-to-no cost, and with a bit of talent and time, many don't even sound half-bad. It's really too bad that the industry seems to be siding towards the attitude that "everybody should make music!", which is where it is inevitably heading. Things like digital recording, auto-tune, quantization, etc. were created to make real musicians' and engineers' lives a little easier, but what they've ultimately done is contribute to the devaluing of music, both monetarily and in spirit. Nobody gives a shit if you're in a band, if you can play your instrument, or even if your songs are any good. "Musicians" are just regular people at this point. And regular people can't be rock stars in peoples' minds.
Hopefully, with the death of the 'rock star' dream, talentless retards will stop buying cheap knock-off instruments and writing god-awful trite bullshit songs that should never, ever have seen the light of day.
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