Music industry wins case

[Kapitan_Phillips]

Originally Posted by Dowly

this has been said before i know (and by the record companies themselves on occasion) but they are fighting the inevitable...they started it..by going digital...they have to resign themselves to the changing nature of the digital world..

it's all about plumetting "record" sales...now i am going to have to speak purely as an older person here ...but i just haven't heard anything produced recently (in the last fifteen years in fact lol) that just didn't immediately remind me of something else...how many times is it possible to listen to the latest "new" thing only to find it just sounds like half a cupfull of the who..a dash of led zeppellin..a smidgem of the rolling stones...or perhaps more recently same as above but replace with any number of punk/new wave bands...magazine/ramones/etc etc...there's only so many times you can tell yourself this is original music before you lose the will to live lol....what went wrong eh??? when did the younger generations get too scared to create their own music? or maybe at the same time when did the recod companies get too scared to sign genuinely original bands???

if so the record companies have made their own beds...so now they have to lie in them.. sales are dropping because well what's the point?? why buy another "such and such" clone?? it's crap stop it..we've heard it all before...

Precisely. Record sales are dropping because the music is ****e. Bands these days want all the money and all the glory but aren't prepared to really work and make something new. Its all two or three chords and singing about the time your girlfriend dumped you or 'macking' on some 'foshizzle booty'.

[Frenssen]

I haven`t bought a CD in years. I listen to web radio and see local bands perform. The record industry makes me want to puke.