Shire Time Session 2…
The second installment of the Shire Time Sessions is here.
What goes great some New Zealand backpacking and pipe smoking with Gandalf? ...Music of course.
Music is a major part of my life and it goes great with everything…homework, walking around, chores, running, driving around, napping, and sports. Especially baseball…
Side note: that’s a Good Neighbor Stuff video and they are all awesome and everyone should watch them.
The controversy over the ability to download music online is one which many people debate over; personally, I think it is more important to the music industry than most people know. The majority of music that is downloaded on the internet today is from new artists or the current popular artists. What do they have to lose? The ability to people to get their music for free online just increases their popularity and spreads their name. Most of the new music I find is online, not on iTunes or in a record store. I’m not going to pay for a song when I have even heard the whole track. Websites like www.hypem.com are an accumulation of a ton of online music blogs. It is kind of like an RSS Reader website and just posts every song that music blogs blog about. This allows for new artists to get their entire song out there and create a fan base.
Most of the money artists and bands make is from shows. Whenever you go to a concert it is usually $20 or more and the venue can hold at least a couple hundred and as much as 60,000 or higher. So even in the smallest show you would go to, the band would bring in about $4,000-$8,000 and keep most of it. New artists understand this and don’t really complain too much about the online music debate. The ones who complain are the popular artists who already have millions of dollars so who cares, they are just whining, and the older artists who don’t really perform anymore.
When it comes to the older artists, I still don’t believe they have anything to worry about. Most people want to buy their music because they want all of it, not just a couple of songs you can get for free. When the Beatles finally let their music be sold on iTunes, people went crazy and it was at the top of just about every chart. Other less popular old artists you can’t even find online, so they have nothing to worry about.
I like what The Glitch Mod did with their songs. They released one song for free online and went on tour and made tons of money and gained a huge fan base, just proving that the music sales aren’t where the big money is. Also other artists like Pretty Lights, Ratatat, and many other upcoming artists just give their albums out for free online. I really enjoy how the music industry is now starting to conform to the situation and has generally stopped complaining.
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