Just on a technical level, the music produce today is shit. Its brickwalled garbage that creates physical pain when you try to listen to it. If you get an old CD (or a newly released album thats been properly mixed, which is rare) and blast it on a good soundsystem, its an amazing experience unlike anything else. If you try to do the same thing with a modern CD you can literally damage the speakers from all the constant clipping, if you can even tolerate playing it at a loud volume. Now just imagine what that does to your eardrum, and now were suppose to fork over $15 for a whole disc of this crap? I guess young people listening to music on their phones using low-quality ear buds or built-in laptop speakers dont mind paying .99 cents to enjoy a song on the go, but I cant imagine physical media sells anymore because the people with the hardware to properly enjoy it are physically repulsed by the low-quality diarrhea thats the new production standard. Look up the CD version of Death Magnetic compared to the Guitar Hero rips if you think Im being too picky. But my biggest pet peeve is when they remaster classic albums, as they just boost everything until it clips and remove high frequency ranges to reduce the undesirable background noises microphones picked up back then. So now we get to buy the same album a second time, except now its a hollow and lifeless shell of itself that sounds like everything modern. Music studios are riding a cash-cow and they dont give a shit as long as people keep buying their product, and the irony is when people stop buying it theyll blame piracy and every else except themselves.
Posted on: Wed, 01 Oct 2014 05:03:30 +0000