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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Replying to @backus
i never see anyone saying this... but the albums aren't just some the record industry plot to make more money. musicians want to create albums like writers want to create novels. maybe some chapters are better received than others, but that doesn't negate the point of the novel
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Replying to @rogerclark
Yeah that is true and that is how it started, but it was copy paste applied as a template for every artist for revenue reasons. Rap is a good example of it often being forced. Even if artists did all want to work this way, it still wasn't a good match for what consumers wantedpic.twitter.com/SmjVZET2O6
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Replying to @backus
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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