lets hope p2p does bankrupt the music industry

[anarcus]

POP MUSIK as "Devo" once called it is crushing the musician, killing talent & destroying the band as we know it.

(ok this is just another one of my 2am rants which will lead no-where)

but i hate it as a struggerling lead singer of a heavy metal group i'm pissed that the only way into the f:crosscking industrie these days is to be a 15year old girl with breasts bigger than my head a arse that look fine in a G-string, & a fair bit of botox treatment

basicaly what every girl want's to be and what every boy want's to f:crossck (or spend 5mins with a picture of)

and the "music" it's self is repeditive lyrics & and a bad casio keyboard

yet the record companies are making a mint, off every ones teenie booper little sisters who spend there mcdonalds minium wage on the shit CD single which only include one song with 4 remix's (including a so called dance remix which is just the corus repeted over and over)

and this may be just my personal opinion but it's making music boring, & this maybe another opinion but it seems to be because they are making too much money from the same old bullshit instead of investing it in bands with new and original music ideas, or even bands with potential talent.

and i know ppl are going to say there are lots of underground labels out there. but how are these bands ever going to make money if they have to compete with a hot chick screaching about whats "underneith her clothes"

any way i think the point i'm trying to make is can't we somehow get every 14yo onto using kazaa and a cd burner and make the record companies rethink what they are doing

anyway as you can probably tell by my speeling i've just been jaming and are pretty f:crosscking recked

so has music died, or am i just a little bitch?

[SnakeAnarchy]

Totally agree that pop music is just bullshit and that i dont think those artist deserve shit. But if every kid used kazaa and a cd burner real, good artist could get hurt.

[notbob]

good musicians are already getting hurt--you think the fact that a record label takes 80-90% of album profits helps the artist? without record labels (and with internet distribution) the musicians could take 100% of the profits, and use a part of that for bandwidth and server maintenance, leaving the labels to fuck off and die--sounds good to me

labels are supposed to use their end of the profits for promotion--but what they do is promote preformers (not to be confused with artist, performer, or musician) like aguilera, spears, eminem, and whoever else you've ever heard of are all paid for initially with the profits of bands you never heard of (or creepy radio execs who bribe radio conglomerates, who get bribed by some other guy who took the money from a "lesser act")

[jlee48]

I find it so sad that the artists out there making the good music are the ones who get the short end of the stick when it comes to making money.

I hate how sometimes I do feel guilty for downloading entire albums, because I DO want to support my favorite artists, but I refuse to let any of my money go straight to these companies instead of to the artists where it belongs. And there's no reason, if I DO buy a CD of someone worthy (and possibly lesser known), that any of that profit should go toward the next generic act that the media, record companies, or whoever, wish to force down my throat.

One day I would love to save up the amout I'd spend on a good artists CD catalog, meet them in person, and just hand it over to them. At least then I'd know they were getting it.

I'm severly disgusted at the appearance of many acts out there these days. If you don't have that "look" of sex-symbol material (which most of them really aren't that attractive anyway) then you get overlooked. It really makes me sad.

There's only so many 'varations' of the same thing you can come up with. I haven't listened to the radio in months because it's all the same. I depend on word of mouth and the internet for discovering new music. It's a redundant statement, but I really wish more people would realize the benefits of the internet and p2p and embrace it, instead of condemning it without giving it a proper chance.