Interesting story here on the current state of malaise in this music business.....
 
http://elitedaily.com/music/how-one-generation-was-able-to-kill-the-music-industry/593411/
 
Your thoughts after reading it?

Sadly I didn't really have much of a reaction, it just seemed like the logical progression of a long term downward trend. To be honest, I don't really pursue music to make money, I do it to make music. The idea that someone would pay to appreciate it, while nice, is not part of my equation.
 
That said I think there is a larger downward trend toward a progressively less aware populace that has discarded nuance in favor brand, style in favor of fashion and analysis in favor of Facebook/Twitter RSS feeds. That in the longer term is somewhat frightening to me because it goes beyond music to society as a whole.
 
Regards,

Nothing we didn't already know, IMO.
 
They did use the word "ubiquity" though. Bubba will like that.

Bob Marley small ax.

Yep... more of what we already know.
 
The amazing part is how fast it happened. Overnight it seemed that record sales went down the tube and a-la cart downloads for pennies took over driving the stake through it's barely beating heart.

mmorgan
Sadly I didn't really have much of a reaction

Same here.

The music industry is absolutely dead.   Marketing with music, or any kind of media is alive and well.   C'est la mother****ing vie...   Ha, just think of all the money we no longer have to spend on instruments and software

The so called "music business" is dead or almost dead, music certainly isn't dead.
 
There's probably an old saying something like- "If the horse you rode in on is dead, it's time to get a new horse...or maybe a camel if that works better."
 
I personally think the changes have done much more good than harm if you look at it from the perspective that more art has made it into the public arena....the harm part is financial, although 10 million from an online single is nothing to sneeze at.

I'm kinda in the ho-hum response category too. The music industry as we have known it deserves death. It has always always been an exploitive cesspool of greed. Proportionally very few stars have reaped benefits from actual record sales. The myth that piracy is stealing from artists is a fat lie. Piracy steals from the labels who are in the process of stealing frm artists. I know it's still theft but the face of the victim elicits less sympathy when the victim is a thief himself.

Music itself is alive and well. It's been fashionable for older people to bash the current pop trends for decades and I recall my elders bashing music we listened too when I was young, including music now considered "classic". The industry simply painted itself into a corner and is paying the price. Say what you want about cheap downloads but they have spared many the time and money wasting task of discovering the only decent song on the cd was the pop hit you are already sick of.

They talk about the music industry as if it was oxygen. Always been here and can't live without it.
 
But in historical perspective, the industry has only been around for about 50 years. Music was around long before there was an industry feeding off it.
 
Like Mark Twain said when asked if he feared death, "I was not alive for millions of years before I was born, and it did not inconvenience me one bit."