OK, some total BS in today’s USA Today, life section: The record labels are taking a new tack. Apparently, single song downloading is the “death of the album” as we know it, and we are moving “more and more towards a culture of single, disposable songs.”
Yeah, OK. What a load.
How about this for a new premise: Downloaders lose very little of the “art of the album” because the tired, generic, insipid record industry hasn’t acutally been *bothering* with it for years… the article itself can’t come up with a more recent example of a well structured album then 2000’s Marshal Mathers LP. Has not one of the downloader’s biggest complaints always been, “why should I pay full price for one single and 10 pieces of crap?” The cheek of this industry, to blame a mass falloff in their sales on a tiny minority instead of placing it where it belongs, squarely on the shoulders of a *backlash against their crap*.
You say my culture causes your mediocrity, I say your mediocrity causes my culture.
The Earth it did crack open on the day that I was born and a thousand merry pranksters came dancin’ through the storm.I lay cradle bound a howlin’ out my mind not knowin’ years to come I’d be shoutin’ over din
I sucked information through the holes in my skull as my belly gurgles hungry my mouth is always full.
I am Antipop; I’ll run against the grain till the day I drop. I am the Antipop; the man you cannot stop.
As a young man, I plug into the tube, but the stench of all that pretense I cannot muddle through.
I lay on my back and scan the radio all that comes out my speakers is a steady syrup flow.
I suck information through the holes in my skull as my belly gurgles hungry my mouth is always full.
I stood by watching and I seen ’em come and go. I seen ’em make that million then vanish in the snow.
They come upon you like a pack of rabid hounds as they slobber in your ears and purge you with their sounds.
Pushing misinformation through the holes in my skull my belly gurgles nauseous and still my mouth is full.
I am Antipop; I’ll run against the grain till the day I drop. I am the Antipop; the man you cannot stop.
—Primus, “Antipop”
It is sad, but yeah, there are not really any “albums” anymore… not like The Wall or Sgt. Pepper–like them or not, they were albums.
I agree. I know you will make fun of me, but the last relaly amazing album I bought was Mellon Collie & the Infinite Saddness.
Thanks for commenting on Jerry’s site. I appreciate it!
So we gonna hang out sometime or what?
they just want their money…
The consumer has spoken and the big business will have to do something differently or die.
Fuck the record companies, when you pay to download one song the band gets a lot more money, in THIER pocket, than when they sell a whole CD! You won’t find any band with half of one brain complaining about this, just the record companies. The ones that sell CDs for $18.00 but the bands get paid the same as when they sold a tape for $10. And the CD costs way less to make I might add.
Fuck em. I like to say that.
I’m a musical snob. If I can’t hear it first, I’m not buying it. So, thanks to Mr. Kazaa, I’ve bought about eight CD’s in the last two weeks. Fuck the bozos.
See that’s the thing. Britney Spears has her $3,000 thong in a twist because she’s not making as much money on her CD as she could. Well, don’t lock me up, I’m not downloading Britney Spears (music anyway). I down load shit that’s difficult to find, or I only like one song by the artist or group. Why buy a Ray Parker CD when all you want is the Ghost Buster’s theme? And anyone that downloads Spear’s music should be locked up, not for piracy, but for liking CRAP!
There hasn’t been a good “album” since the mid 90’s. Unless you want to count a few greatest hits.
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Hoo hoo. This should be good.
Yes if I was an artist I’d be ticked, then again…if album sales didn’t do so good…I’d find other things to do like deal or become a porn star. I’d like to see so called “pop” acts just do singles and actual artists have a cd. I don’t d/l because I think listening to an album is fun and a great journey then if you don’t like it quit whining and just pawn it, dickweeds. Oh and the ones that complain don’t tour a lot so think about.
And some are pissed because they’ve put there sweat and balls in that album and someone shits on them.
I say they should not record it on a computer, all artists should keep songs off the computer. As soon as they record the song, put it on a cd and have some security people take it to a vault. When that band member or someone wants it they can get it. That way nothing is laying around.
Money helps the artist evolve. I don’t d/l because I wanna hear more albums from that person and not have them flop from existense.
I don’t know that’s my opinion dude.
HA! Look at this skater wigger.
One hit wonders are the wave of the future, HOOOORRAYYY for the boy band?
SORRY IF YOU MISSED THE SARCASM