> The music industry is corrupt as fuck, it rips people off they're
> >getting it
> back a bit now.
As pointed out in 'Innumeracy', once upon a time people supported the
'best' in their area. No one got amazingly rich, but most musicians made
a living.
Now people buy the 'best' in the world, they get amazingly rich, and the
rest can't force us to listen to what they want to play. 'Best' being
entirely arbitrary - most people want entertainment, not music.
It's easy to say that 'yeah but it's all over-hyped crap like Backstreet
Boys these days' - OK, it's true, but was it ever any different? I doubt
people en mass were much deeper in the way they dug music in the past
(otherwise why so many 60s one-hit wonders?).
> If it's about making money then sell your soul go and learn Perl or
> something and get a well paid but soul-destroying computer job.
Funny thing is Andy, I don't find my (OK paid) job that soul-destroying
- I did find DJing in a Britpop club increasingly so - nothing more
soul-destroying than banging your head against a brick wall. Or being
forced to follow musical fashion. Or (like someone I know) having to
write reviews of bands you hate for the Melody Maker to an audience of
14 year old nu-metal fans.
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