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Originally Posted by CISUM  I mean is this it?!?
All I see and hear now is how record sales are down, torrents here, download there.
This band calling it quits, starting a fashion line etc etc...
So what happened to good ol making music, making money and supporting yourself from it?!
Is the music industry just over, and those who have carved somewhat of a nitch, or has the connections will continue to move forward?! Or should musicians and artists just create music now for the love with absolute no means of making it, because from what I see, unless your Lady GAGA or Taylor Swift, your chances are better to be a drag queen working on the weekends in a dive bar?!
Any opinions?! |
Well it happened to theater, why cant it happen to music?, IMHO music stopped being music around 10-11 years ago, i mean even in the 90s there were bands doing new stuff, right now is just like you say it, music stopped being music and now its only a sound based product, thats it... Although i still have the hope that this is only temporary, anything can happen, it may even go worse, but i hope it gets better.
This is the best explanation i've heard so far:
"People get art and commerce mixed up, once you can separate the two of them, and see that art is art and commerce is commerce and understand that this business (the music biz) is commerce, then it makes much more sense." --Questlove