You can't expect to make great music and sell it too... most people have
horrible taste, lets face it. If you truly want to be creative and break new
grounds with your music, you will most likely only appeal to a very limited
niche (like this one), the majority of paying customers won't get it. (yet)
If you want to make money with your talent, then you have to appeal to the
majority... and destroy your creative potential by going with where the
market goes. Sell, sell, sell.
Its a balancing act, I know. When you guys figure it out, let me know too.
=)
quoted 102 lines From: "cath animon" <cathanimon@hotmail.com>
>From: "cath animon" <cathanimon@hotmail.com>
>To: idm@hyperreal.org
>Subject: RE: [idm] 2003: The Year the Music Industry Dies - Wired Magazine,
>2/2003
>Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2003 18:09:30 +0000
>
>
>the way i see it, quite simply, if artists don't make a living from sales
>of hard copies of their work, they will ultimately have to return to
>life-eating day-jobs which will only destroy their potential.
>you can't be expected to create great music as well as catching the bus to
>work every morning...
>
>
>
>
>>From: "skism" <cazeone@ramdis.com>
>>Reply-To: <cazeone@ramdis.com>
>>To: <idm@hyperreal.org>
>>Subject: RE: [idm] 2003: The Year the Music Industry Dies - Wired
>>Magazine, 2/2003 Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2003 19:03:24 -0000
>>
>>
>>Didn't I read somewhere that the Industries loss in sales was actually due
>>to
>>a drop in production, which they tried to cover up in order to have some
>>ammunition for the war against p2p?
>>
>>But in the end I can't see the Industry disappearing anytime soon... Their
>>revenues are still huge so the worst I can see happening is a little belt
>>tightening or maybe the odd merger and acquisition here and there.
>>
>>What's great about capitalism is that it gives an opportunity for small
>>more efficient companies to adapt to new circumstances where the larger
>>companies are too bloated and inefficient to change in time to deal with
>>them. But I guess the music industry is a little different due to the
>>fact that it's dealing with peoples taste (or lack of), so who knows..
>>
>>But even if they did all go bust it wouldn't be much of a problem for
>>most of the people on this list, who i'm sure buy much of their music
>>in specialist stores stocked full of independant music?
>>
>>...skism
>>
>> > -----Original Message-----
>> > From: Brett Dietsch [mailto:elph@lawngnome.org]
>> > Sent: 17 January 2003 17:40
>> > To: seeklektek
>> > Cc: idm@hyperreal.org
>> > Subject: Re: [idm] 2003: The Year the Music Industry Dies - Wired
>> > Magazine, 2/2003
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > On Friday, January 17, 2003, at 12:24 PM, seeklektek wrote:
>> > >
>> > > The article, in Wired's Feb.2003 issue, on newsstands now, opens with
>>a
>> > > prediction by the late Timothy White,
>> > > editor of Billboard, that the Music Industry will die in 2003. Aw,
>> > > gee:
>> > > wouldn't that be too bad?! ;)
>> >
>> > probably, yeah it would be.
>> > dont get me wrong, im not a big fan of labels and everything, but they
>> > are a semi-necessary evil.
>> > if noone buys the cd's and everyone pirates them, the companies no
>> > longer have any reason to put out cd's, which in turn means noone has
>> > cd's to pirate, which reinstates the need for cd distribution,
>> > which.... well.. go back to the beginning.
>> >
>> > hell yes, i pirate music. i also buy what i like and trash what i
>> > dont. most people just pirate music. im not pulling a moral high
>> > ground pose here, but seriously.. if the industry goes away, any hope
>> > at decent distribution will also go away.
>> >
>> > i _LIKE_ having access to artists all over the world, being able to
>> > find almost any genre of music, and lots that i've never heard of. no
>> > industry, no distribution, less choices.
>> >
>> > now, if only the industry would play nice..
>> >
>> >
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