David Lowery has it exactly right, re: the state of Music today -- The most mass-market stuff, exactly. It’s as if all T-shirts — my analogy is like it’s as if the government mandated that all T-shirts were going to cost $3. We would all be wearing semi-ironic, American flag T-shirts from Wal-Mart because nobody would make anything else. Because it has to appeal to the mass market. And yeah, you may not see it right now, but I don’t know what you’ll see 20 years from now. Maybe other systems will come up to fix it but I don’t think it bodes very well for anything other than the most mass-market kind of music. He refers to the current Digital model for selling music, streaming models, etc. Set prices, where only Top 40//Pop tunes will thrive. Niche musics - Jazz, Classical, Reggae, etc. -- anything slightly out of the manufactured mainstream, will cease to exist. THIS WILL HAPPEN unless people start getting paid, and the public ceases to think of Music as a utility to be stolen and shared freely. This system is virtually unsustainable.
Posted on: Wed, 03 Sep 2014 15:48:10 +0000
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