Game Music Continuing To Gain Recognition

Thanks to Yahoo/Chicago Tribune for their article charting the continued rise in popularity of videogame music. The piece quotes a music agent as saying: "Record companies are realizing that this is the new radio", and another commentator points out: "Consumers would rather download than pay $15 for a CD, leaving the record industry scrambling for revenue. How do they monetize music? License to video games." However, when it comes to stand-alone game soundtrack CDs, "sales aren't earth-shattering yet", and specific numbers are referenced for the Grand Theft Auto: Vice City soundtrack, of which "...the most popular CD, 'V-Rock,' sold 42,300 copies."

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[IshanCaspian]

vgmix. Only trouble is the guys who run that site are a real bunch of assholes....some clown named Jake (virt) and his girlfriend. There are some good tunes there, but the admins are the ideal pimply-faced nerds who have nothing better to do than go on lock posts and send you nasty PMs whenever you don't agree with them. They also had the exceptionally retarded idea of making the entire web site into a MMORPG, so they'll prohibit you from doing certain things on the site if you haven't "gained enough levels." Go, leech his bandwith for some occasionally cool tunes, but when it comes to the freaks that inhabit that site, stay far, far away. If you don't believe me, just check out this picture. And if it's at all believable, he's one of the more normal ones...Yowzer. Tights...