An Excellent New Read: "A Brief History Of Why Artists Are No Longer Making A Living..."

Thank you, sir.

@simao : " Actually, the author DOES support that analog is superior to digital- and that digital had to recreate itself through added warmth, etc."

>>>>If digital had to create itself through added warmth, etc. where is the warmth? If you had said playback equipment and tweaks improved digital to where it revealed the warmth, etc. that was there all along, then I would agree. The inventors of digital were smart but they were no Einsteins.

n80, that was not meant in humor.


First, there are plenty of folks here who know the music industry intimately. Second, you have no idea what other people's experiences have been.

The music industry, and everything else falls under the economy.

What does anyone's experience have to do with the economy?




      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qT_AohwjFqQ


There are towns smaller than the cities which are far worse off.

Actually that's pretty much the way I see it, too. But it didn't seem to matter much to me that the author supported unions more than I might have, or that he might have preferred analog to digital or whatever. I just was looking at what his views were as a participant in the industry grind for as long as he was and what he was saying he thought might be currently relevant.

^^^ what geoff was saying, that is