Music source - CD, iTunes, BitTorrent, etc.?

BitTorrent is where the movies are generally found.

 

The music industry blames downloading for killing the labels. I think it's much closer to suicide than murder.

Somewhere I still have an old vinyl album with a dust sleeve inside with an image of a cassette forming the upper half of a human skull and the message "Home taping is killing the music industry!"

Then they tried to bully independent record stores by not shipping new CDs to them if they also sold used CDs, because used CDs were killing the music industry.

Now it's downloading.

Sorry -- refusal to develop new artists and support quality acts is killing the labels. That, and the fact that technology is quickly making them completely irrelevant. Musicians will be fine, but in a few years the labels will cease to exist as we know them.

 

Ding ding ding.

 

Yes, I'm old enough to remember the hysterics from the RIAA when Walkmans were everywhere and blank tape sales soared so forgive me if I've seen this act before.

Like many others, I replaced a massive vinyl - and cassette - collection with CDs and supported artists both large and small for years by going to hundreds of shows in clubs, arenas, sheds, stadiums etc.

And I still don't understand how I can buy 50 blank CDs for $30 or whatever but CDs are still ridiculously expensive in stores.

Musicans adapted and thrived through the tape era and I have no doubt many will continue to do the same through the digital era.

 

I would put storage space requirements as a con also.

 

absolutely.

 

One of the most depressing little things in life of the past 20 years is the absence of the great LP cover art.

And, no, to me a CD doesn't get that done for me.

 

I still buy CDs and get some stff off Itunes. BUt I've found plenty of stuff on various wwebsites and musci blogs. Mostly bootlegs, live stuff and songs.

Legal or not, it's agreat way to grab a bunch of good stuff.

 

Exhibit FUCKING A.

Well done.

 

The cover was another thing that added to the cost of a vinyl album. That's a non-starter on CDs. But they cost more for some reason.

 

Sticky Fingers WITH the zipper.