Music industry wasn't just anti-tech By 2000, they were addicted to inflated revenue: album bundling and illegal price fixing meant you payed $15 for a $10 album to get a $1 song. Even if $1 songs replaced piracy, revenue would fall by ~90%. More for fixed price streaming.
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This is still interesting too though if we take albums as an art form at face value. The music industry did embrace artistic taste/tradition a lot at the expense of listening to what people want. A similar example is talent scouts vs. analyzing demandpic.twitter.com/OTUi3XHZe0
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What book is that from?
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maybe that's true. i'm not convinced that "what the consumers want" is the golden ideal when it comes to making art. of course, obviously it makes sense capitalism-wise
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Yeah, me either. The main distortion here to focus on IMO is bad songs and other junk being loaded into albums for artists that maybe don't care about holistic albums. I remember listening to Encore by Eminem as a kid and wondering what all the weird skits were. Makes sense now.
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I know yoy are trying to make a bigger point, but that’s a trash ass opinion about “Get Rich or Die Trying” and rap music in general.
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