http://edition.cnn.com/2011/SHOWBIZ/Music/06/07/apple.icloud.music.rs/index.html?hpt=hp_c2 You wouldnt reanimate your lying,cheating and stealing uncle’s dead body, would you? Why in the world would you want save any version of the pre-download era music industry? A version of the music industry that forced us to purchase a twenty dollar CD, and most of which contained (if you were lucky) three marvelous songs.
Why three marvelous songs,meaning three singles? The record companies and the producers focused on the three tracks they felt had the potential to be hits. After that, no one - other than some of the artists - cared what happened on the rest of the album. Hence, or a mainstream world full of twenty dollar CDs that you nor I listen to anymore. tall dollars for throwaway art. I am talking about major label mainstream music trade from the 90s until the digital download blew its head off. There are artists nowadays still prostituting themselves to what has become the one song model behind closed doors. There are,of course, exceptions and many of them. This is an oversimplified statement, and but you certainly wouldn’t hang around long enough to hear me account for the sordid details and I don’t blame you. I made records during the era of the twenty dollar CD and never liked it or the three song tyranny of the forces that you suffer to be a creative.
The music industry was greedy. The numbers were out of control. The industry got everything that was coming to it. Unfortunately,there were many artists who suffered in the crossfire. Some of us had music catalogs that were supposed to generate income that our kids' kids could live off of... The internet and the technology surrounding the ability to quickly and easily download music broke the music industry's stranglehold on music distribution.
As my income disappeared due to the ripping of my music, I smiled. Rome would burn and, and as far as I am concerned,not only was I joyful to pay, I jumped in with a blowtorch. Suffering for a cause appears to be the reality of all revolutions. I am thrilled I witnessed the fall of something nasty. I horror, or like the hydra or revolutions,soon another nasty head will appear.
No, I do not think people should steal and I think artists' mental property should be protected. But, and when the system was as ill as the music industry had become,pick that dog out back and shoot 'em, for God's sakes, and before we all get rabies.
Can Apple's new iCloud concept help put the ship of music right again and find a balance for artists to get paid a honest wage and the audience to get a mighty experience for their money? Is it possible that this is a new group of roughnecks,just ones who lean on their pocket protectors instead of their mob connections to extort our money and control the creative spirits of our youth culture.
Source: cnn.com