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How Amateurs Destroyed the Professional Music Business
David Gerard writes "Here in the future, musicians and record companies complain they can't make a living any more. The problem isn't piracy — it's competition. There is too much music and too many musicians, and the amateurs are often good enough for the public. This is healthy for culture, not so much for aesthetics, and terrible for musicians. There are bands who would have trouble playing a police siren in tune, who download a cracked copy of Cubase — you know how much musicians pirate their software, VSTs and sample packs, right? — and tap in every note. There are people like me who do this. A two-hundred-quid laptop with LMMS and I suddenly have better studio equipment than I could have hired for $100/hour thirty years ago. You can do better with a proper engineer in a proper studio, but you don’t have to. And whenever quality competes with convenience, convenience wins every time. You can protest that your music is a finely-prepared steak cooked by sheer genius, and be quite correct in this, and you have trouble paying for your kitchen, your restaurant, your cow."
You can protest that your music is a finely-prepared steak cooked by sheer genius, and be quite correct in this, and you have trouble paying for your kitchen, your restaurant, your cow."
Sacred cows make the best hamburgers.
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Shit. What the hell is happening to people these days? Does McDonalds really need to sell their burgers with instructions? You are supposed to open the friggin box, remove the contents, and just eat the contents for christ sake!
Guns don't kill people; Physics kills people! - John Lithgow as Dick Solomon on Third Rock From The Sun
You are supposed to open the friggin box, remove the contents, and just eat the contents for christ sake!
But then you lose half the nutritional value!
Don't tell me to get a life. I had one once. It sucked.
You knew perfectly well what I meant.
Yep, I know exactly what you meant. It's not a real instrument because it's not being played by a true scotsman.
SJW n. One who posts facts.
Wrong. Budweiser bottles the best horse piss and Microsoft makes the best migraines.
He was a "genius" in an Apple Store.
You know, I was half expecting a video link telling him how to make and install a vagina.
Of course, that isn't a bad thing, but most of us testicle wearers would find it hard to remain interested for any longer than it took to show moral support to our SOs.
"I've got more toys than Teruhisa Kitahara."
He's not supposed to have sex with his mother.
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