But imagine if the Beatles or any other of “the good guys” were still kickin’ today and had the backup of the industry in today’s form. They would be selling truck loads, or so i would like to think.
Also, today every one and their gran’ma is buying music, and the market as grown a lot, i don’t know how many billion people were alive in the 50’s, 60’s and 70’s, but today you have 7 billion potential customer for the music industry.
They would probably be forced to endorse or not get the capital from record companies to tell everyone that they are the next best thing. I say this not so much that their sound would not be relevant or anything like that. Maybe i’ve just become too cynical from seeing good song writers and talented musicians get more or less ignored. But then again maybe it isn’t fair to anyone by playing time machine games comparing past talent with modern pop culture.
Read this a while ago… its still mental… on the same site it shows the ages of loads of movie stars… babys in ads that people would know and there like 30+ these days.
Times are different and its not fair to compare icons in music that didn’t have the advantages that artists of today have. Its really easy for someone to say “Iwant that new Ke$ha song”, log onto their itunes, download and be listening to it in 2 min. In 1971, if they said “I want that new Led Zeppelin record, I will get it this weekend”, and the weekend comes and goes and they couldn’t get a ride to the record store and their best friend already has it and they listen to it at their friends house until they played it out, their is no need for them to buy it. It’s a whole different world.
times change, get over it. everyone knows who’s music is better, but i’m sure anyone of those artists who were outsold would rather have their music be the way it was over being in the same category as any of those pop acts.
Going on this, I know how many of you feel about deadmau5, but I love the guy. Anyways, he had a ustream show last night at around 1am local time, and he was talking about downloading and torrents. And it was interesting to see it from the other side, and I think his view makes sense.
In summary this was his view:
Torrenting is hurting the music industry but it’s not hurting everyone equally. The major record labels are taking the biggest hit because of the volume of music they distribute. For smaller artists it shouldn’t be so much of an issue if you’re really in it for the music, and not the money, because it’s the only way you’ll develop a following. He said you can’t calculate the damage done to the music industry done by illegal downloading without also considering how many fans it has brought to the artist. As an independent artist, and not a label, he said that the money he lost would have been used to further his stage productions, so it’s not like the money is being stored in a bank account. However, in today’s time and age record sales are not the only source of revenue, and part of being an electronic artist in today’s age is finding creative means of generating revenue. Torrenting hurts record sales but it will attract more people to shows, and artist’s incomes are coming more and more from shows.
