radish;285397 Wrote: > > For one thing, concert tickets are expensive enough already, without > them having to subsidize a bunch of freeloaders. For another, there are > plenty of artists who don't perform live (for many reason, the least of > which being their talent), and thus who would have no way of getting > paid. What we'd end up with is a monoculture of major artists playing > middle of the road pop/rock who can afford to support themselves with > touring, and the smaller/interesting ones who can't would die on the > vine. No thanks.
Artists who don't perform live are in the wrong business the same way the record comapanies are now in the wrong business (they became irrelevant when the physical disc was no longer required to distribute recorded music). I know it is hard to swallow, but that's life. An engineer who can't/won't engineer won't make a living and neither will a musician who can't/won't perform. I think we'd end up where music started- wealthy patrons of the arts would pay people to create new music for their enjoyment and the rest of us would be listening to people on the lower end of the scale in bars, restaurants, etc., they way things were before the record industry was invented. I don't think it is such a bad thing. There was plenty of music made before the record companies and there will be plenty after, the difference is that those who now make schlock simply to make money (take Britney Spears, for instance) will disappear and those who truly love doing it will continue to make music after they're off from their day jobs. Where is it written in stone that music must continue to be a multimillion source of income for anyone? TD -- tyler_durden ------------------------------------------------------------------------ tyler_durden's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2701 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=45519 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
