I was reading the article added by Mega the other day from James Hoare - News/Online Editor. You can all be pissed at me, add all the nasty bitchy comments you wish, but Mega and James Hoare are totally and completely correct. Today’s generation seems to be in a total disconnect. It does not matter what kind of music you listen to. You can listen to Trash Metal or the music from the fucking American Idol winners, but it seems that many from the under 30 set are in a total disconnect.
When I say this, I don’t mean all from that generation and younger, but many. I have a 21 year old daughter, and I know she is. Whatever she dose not want to hear from people or deal with, she cuts them off, or it off. Going into her own cocoon be it her iPod, or circle of friends that act like robots sharing her own opinions, listening to what she does, watching what she does.
The music started taking a dive a good ten years ago, because people starting purchasing entire CD‘s. Napster came out of nowhere allowing people to get a one or two songs off a CD at a time. Artist bitched they where loosing money, Napster was shut down, and IPOD’S and ITUNES where born, along with a paid version of Napster and many more paid for sites where you could just purchase the 1 or 2 songs you like, rather than getting to know the entire CD front and back like we had to.
Blame it on media, Video games, the limited time parents had to spend with their children, but something went very wrong in the very late 20th century that is still going wrong as we sit in the early 21st century. A total disconnect from life. We live in a society that allows us too many choices, in life, of merchandise, and in the case we are talking about music. The two second attention span in king and those who sell to young people love it. For those of you that claim to love music, you may be killing exactly what you love. You request the same things over and over. Know little of what came before, and probably know little of what would be considered the B side of the Musicians music you so claim to love. You hear some of their music on BrainGell, but do you have any of their full CD’s?
I admit I purchase singular songs from ITUNES myself, usually though I also buy songs from the same artist that I haven’t heard. If I like the songs I haven’t heard, I purchase more, eventually ending up with most of the CD. I also purchase older music that I never replaced my old albums with CD’s, or some one hit wonder shit.
But I do not play video games; I know we have a war raging in the Middle East, a Presidential Election coming up. Our music industry is in a crisis right now. To me it dos not matter that it is Heavy Metal, or Pop. It is in danger. I live in a large urban area; the Tower Records closed its doors recently, as well as several other chains. People do not visit record stores anymore. They visit their home computers to download a few songs, and if an artist is lucky someone may buy the entire new CD from time to time.
I admit I am guilty too. The only time I go into a store and buy actual CD’s is during my husband and youngest daughter’s birthdays or Christmas. It is easier to just download the music, but I do not want my 13 year old to be totally disconnected, and like me, I do want her to someday have a collection of CD’s around the house that she can just slip into her CD player and listen to the entire thing, and know all the songs to.
Comment #1 by vBoogieMan on October 15, 2007 at 09:25am
I like being able to purchase single songs and make my own mix CD's to play in my car
Comment #2 by berube on October 15, 2007 at 1:05pm
death to record labels. make em give out all their shit free, then pay for your concert tickets and their merch so the BAND gets the cash. fuck, the industry and fuck the chain record stores. if that becomes the model you can bet your ass that you wont have to deal with all the commercial bullshit in any genre, cause the people will buy it when its good, not because a tv show, commercial, or commercial radio station beat them into buying it by playing it 50 times a day. are we killing the music industry? i fuckin' hope so!
Comment #3 by stonedrockgod on October 15, 2007 at 1:06pm just set up the controls to the way people can get mp3, people still buy stuff and the record industry is far from dieing.. it just needs to adjust instead of acting like the fuckin catholic church.. plus, it's a community.. it's not about money, it's about music... yes, you need money to pay for the electricity to power the guitar, but like I said, people still buy and goto concerts.. tour and though shalt be saved... nuff said, god bless, metal grease
edit, bah berube, you beat me
Comment #4 by Revenant on October 15, 2007 at 6:31pm
It's not our fault. The record companies expect $20 for a CD we only know a part of. If the record companies sold the CD's cheaper and found a medium for us to sample the rest of the songs, I think we might be more willing to drop the cash and support the band. Band merchandising isn't helping either. $30 for a Clay Aiken lunchbox isn't good marketing. $5 for a pewter Iron Maiden keychain....well...that's in a grey area....but you get the point.
Comment #5 by stonedrockgod on October 15, 2007 at 6:39pm
lol, grey area
Comment #6 by WastedZombie on October 16, 2007 at 00:05am
As I remember it, the "I want it yesterday" started about the time faxes started to appear in every conrner store in the late 80's. Which is funny since fax machines existed for along time before they became pop culture. With the increase to almost anything we want available in a digital form, our hunger to consume comes at an ever growing speed. This digital world is a very personaly place. Since its you using the computer to access the world, you can turn off whatever you want quickly and easily, and that click the mouse button and change the page is definately become a part of our societies ease to simply turn the page on events in reality.
...to be continued...
Comment #7 by WastedZombie on October 16, 2007 at 00:06am
As for the music taking a dive... I remember guys telling me about the wonderful hard rock and heavy metal of the 60's and 70's and how the 80's music was all crap. Now the 80's is looked at as starting some of the greatest heavy metal bands in history. I remember tape trading back in the 70's, so when digital media started popping up in the mid 90's, I figured it was just a sign of the times. All Napster did was make it easier to find all those rare tracks, and forgotten about songs from my youth. I never stopped buying CDs though. I started buying them in the 80's. I quickly replaced my entire vinyl collection, but a few albums I had forgotten about as time went on. I do believe that buying a CD is better than the track thats been played 50 times on the radio every day. Their is always a track on the CD that will never get air play, and its usually the song I think is the best song they ever wrote.
...to be continued...
Comment #8 by WastedZombie on October 16, 2007 at 00:07am
I think media, video games, MTV and whatever else you want to use as an excuse is just that. We have 20 excuses why, but never a reason for. I blame gread on a whole. While everyone is in pursuit of happiness, how many people do you know actually get to a spot where they say they are happy... without the feeling depleting and then there they go on their next pursuit? This started happening way before you and I came along. We all need to think of each other as a whole and not as individuals. We all see the commercials on TV where one person helps another and that person another etcetera, but how many times did you go out of your way to help someone today?
...to be continued...
Comment #9 by WastedZombie on October 16, 2007 at 00:07am
I feel, and I believe I'm right, that most of us go through our day thinking about what we are going to do when we aren't at work. We focus harder and harder on our short term goals as we see our long term goals vanishing. We focus more an the immediate which is totally about our own concern. Thus it gets easier for someone to put up their hand while your talking and walk away. Usually with a thought like I got no time for your problems because I've got tons of my own. Why do you think shrinks make so much, because people are willing to pay to unload and gain new focus.
...to be continued...
Comment #10 by WastedZombie on October 16, 2007 at 00:08am
I buy about 5 new CDs a month. Mostly from one store that I like the owner... and he has a hole in the wall store. He resales used CDs for 3 to 5 bucks apiece... and although I know he's buying them for 2 dollars or less, I'm fine with that. My collection grows, he stays in business, and the music industry has already made their profit the first time around. I support the bands I truelly love buying merchandise from their sites, so I know they are actually getting the money.
I think stores like Tower simply saw what was to come and jumped out at a time they could still make a profit while closing the doors.
...to be continued...
Comment #11 by WastedZombie on October 16, 2007 at 00:09am
I like Braingell because with every DJ, you get a chance of hearing new music you've never heard before. Being a DJ, I get requests for bands I've never heard of, and many of their CDs apon purchase have made me a new fan, sometimes buying as many of their CDs as I can. While some people believe that the internet is hurting their sells, the musicians realize their reaching a much larger audience thanks to it.
Okay, I think I stayed mostly on track... sorry it was so long! I just had to unload, and now I can go on! Hehe!
Yes, this is NOT continued!
Comment #12 by vBoogieMan on October 16, 2007 at 09:42am
Damn WZ tell us how you really feel LOL
Comment #13 by stonedrockgod on October 16, 2007 at 09:56am
werd brotha.. werd...
Comment #14 by zigzaggirl420 on October 16, 2007 at 1:13pm
First of all...Woot free speech!
I am with berube on this one! I would also like to add as an OLD metalhead, the fact that sharing music has been going on for years before digital music came about!
As long as the DJ on the FM radio didn't talk over a song, you could record it on tape...you could play your vinyl albums and 45's and record them on tape, to share with your friends, or play in your car, etc...
AS IT SHOULD BE! Art in any form is meant to be shared!! Get over it record companies!
Also, christibro has a point about the younger generation...sorry kids, but many of you ARE disconnected! Fortunately, I can say that my own kids are not as disconnected as many, but I blame parents!
To the point of buying single songs:
that is like it was for me as a kid, buying 45 rpm records, because I heard it on the radio. My older brother pointed out to me that I was missing out on the other potential hits from the album! How many times have you bought an album only to find that the
Comment #15 by zigzaggirl420 on October 16, 2007 at 1:16pm
whole cd rocks!!? I have been fortunate enuff to have that happen many times. So I encourage you to buy the whole cd, or all the tracks, because you really may be missing out on some better music than what you've heard on the radio!
But more so, go see the bands live!! And make your decisions after that...
Thanx christibro, and thanx for reading my rant!
Comment #16 by stonedrockgod on October 16, 2007 at 1:24pm
well, I know that I like buying the cd for the album art, lyrics and seeing all the stuff that goes on the album... gives an idea of the band too..
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just set up the controls to the way people can get mp3, people still buy stuff and the record industry is far from dieing.. it just needs to adjust instead of acting like the fuckin catholic church.. plus, it's a community.. it's not about money, it's about music... yes, you need money to pay for the electricity to power the guitar, but like I said, people still buy and goto concerts.. tour and though shalt be saved... nuff said, god bless, metal grease 
