Posted by abuse on 02/09/07 14:51

Sture <paul.sture.nospam@hispeed.ch> wrote:

> Tim McNamara <timmcn@bitstream.net> wrote:
> > abuse@MIX.COM wrote (quoted a trade magazine, actually):
> >
> > > CD sales continue to decline, however, and file downloads of copy-
> > > protected music have not made up the difference. In desperation, the
> > > music companies are rethinking the positions.
> >
> > Too bad, so sad for the recording industry. The reason that CD sales
> > are falling is that the music sucks. If they put out decent music,
> > they'd sell more CDs. But instead they put out crap and nobody buys it.

Speaking as one who's worked in the music business since 1963 (not a typo)
yes, truer words were never spoken...

> > "It must be the pirates' fault! That's it! The public is too stoopid
> > to know that the music we sell is just recycled ABBA over and over
> > again. So if it's not selling, it has to be the pirates!"

....it's the same old shit, over, and over, and over yet again. There is
only one word to describe that -- B O R I N G !

> Don't forget the part that dumbing down radio stations with recommended
> playlists has in this. The last CD I bought as a result of hearing a new
> (to me) artist on mainstream radio was in 2001.

And, the extremely short and restricted radio station playlists have only
made all this worse.

Billy Y..

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