Quote Originally Posted by hermanv
The death of the entertainment industry as we know it today is on the horizon. As corporations merge and get larger they get more myopic, slower and stoopid. They are unable to adapt to a changing landscape and simply spend more and more energy defending an ever shrinking customer base.

Look at what music the big studios are pushing at their core markets (kids/young adults). It is the worst kind of pretend music, mass produced glitz with no artistic content. Ditto for movies, the only decent movies I've seen are the outright rip-offs of the smaller independent film producers. Other than that, it just seems like they are going through the motions, all false front with nothing inside.

I'm reminded of a comic describing how the endangered species act works. As the population gets smaller and smaller, more and more resources are assigned to watch and document ever so carefully how the species is shrinking. Eventually thousands of people are involved in taking pictures an collecting data as the last known survivng member dies on live TV.

I read that more and more musicians are bypassing the older corporate models and distributing directly on the internet, all the sites I've visited provide samples or even whole songs. Soon these artists will create co-ops (and probably radio stations) to market directly.

There will be years of chaos, but demand is high and a solution will emerge.
Dude,
Rock the @%&# on Poppa. I'm Midwest corn fed beef born and raised, living California large via the east coast swing and the dust from valley fever-if anyone actually knows what that means...! I do.
Every single audio buff ever born period, is totally hardwired for the best darn @%&# they can afford. I am pumping the same blood bro and glad someone said it. I live in one of the most diverse neighborhoods in our country and love that aspect, I just wish our country would not export our industry and we could be the greatest innovators on the planet. After all we have some of the worlds strongest minds and they are controlled by corporations or party politics instead of unified country pride and ingenuity. I just recently received a cry for help from Pandora Internet Radio about this exact topic and I promptly sent the petition to everyone I know and signed my own as well. This crap has got to be looked at up close and I know our somewhat free market will prevail. We have the foremost and most acute financial processes and wizards in the world, period. We need to have the focus slightly jarred by the buying public and the rest will work itself out. I have so much faith in our market place and generations to come.
keep spinning and keep logging all these great expressions of your freedom. I think the internet forums have replaced bohemian coffee house culture for a large portion of the population, expression is so much more potent and relevant these days and let me say most coffee house's I have been too have not had very good sound systems but dam good java, and sometimes really dam good jazz-and live.

Rock the @%&# on.

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