>would be that the >recorded medium would be downscaled (if anyone can do it), But they can't. As said, anyone can made a CD now you can get recordable CD players. But not everyone can get to record on top-knotch microphones in a nice soundproofed studio with a decent engineer - whether than means Liam Watson at Toe Rag studios or whoever produces Britney Spears. > whereupon Steps, the Spice >Girls etc would be out on on their talentless arses. >Theres no way a recording can match seeing a band live - If you like MUSIC sure . . . but it seems since the birth of broadcasting people have always been more interested in stars than the best musicians. >Sub-cultures like mod/punk/rockabilly/skinhead etc are a dying breed, why is >this (any ideas out there?) Best explanation I think comes from a line in The Sopranos (not the TV series, the Alan Warner novel) - 'you only stay in if you've got a nice house'. A lot more parents are a lot more comfortably off - kids didn't used to have their own TVs, videos, games systems, etc, in their bedrooms (and kids share bedrooms less these days). At the other end you've got the rise of club culture - there's more places for people to go out and let off steam, rather than get bored and frustrated (and create somethging). And at the bottom end, if you're badly off, you're a lot more badly off, and spend all your time nicking car stereos so that you can buy new baseball caps and tracky bottoms . . . >about the music. You would still have a divide, but if it meant that i >wouldnt have to waste time with music that is not very good (im blue, daba >doo-doo-dee-doo!)then that would would be alright. Yeah, but you're still going to be stuck in the office with people playing it. And wasn't dance music with all it's white labels, low production costs, and 'anonymous DJs' and mix tapes meant to be 'the end of the record industry' too? Now look at it. Punk too. Answer is to avoid the radio and TV pop shows. ______________________________________________ Faster, stronger and able to send millions of emails in one click: the new Topica site! http://www.topica.com/t/14
