For the first time in maybe a decade or two, I was trying to buy a CD again. To use in my car, which is pretty much the only place anymore where I have a CD player. So I browsed and checked, and I learned that music CDs containing about 40 minutes of music cost between 15 and 20 bucks today.
If you are really wondering why people don't buy this, take a wild guess.
The majority of any music ever produced is rubbish. The music of the 60s only looks so much better in comparison to today's because, well, what do "oldies station" play? The good, or the rubbish?
The 60s gave birth to a slew of really, really crappy music, created under the influence of heavy drugs that made the creator think it's gold when in fact it was even back then something you couldn't even listen to while you yourself were drugged out of your mind. It was simply and plainly absolute bullshit. And that's even only the music that got pressed on vinyl, while today every idiot with a computer can barf the results of him finding a cracked version of CuBase and some samples into YouTube.
Every time, ever, had its good and its bad music. What you remember is the few gems that qualify as good music.
This is why more and more artists simply bypass the big studios and publish themselves, either really doing it themselves or hiring services that get them online to various streaming portals for pennies compared to studio rates.
Face it, the "big five" are dinosaurs nobody needs anymore in this time and age. Even if you are a "real" band, i.e. playing instruments instead of creating everything inside a computer, there's plenty of great recording studios that will record your single for a few hundred bucks at quality, distribution is easy and painless now, too.
Now imagine what money they could rake in if they only manged to do this world wide instead of just the US market with "carefully selected options" available to the rest of would-be customers that are now pretty much required to find other ways to get their fix.
That would pretty much invalidate the whole social media business model. Every social media webpage would pretty much lose all its value over night and would have to...
No, he's just as batshit insane as many others on Twitter.
Personally, I go there whenever I need to stroke my ego. It's a bit like watching afternoon "reality" shows where you can feel good about not being as crazy as those idiots.
But then people would have to deal with rejection when their insanity hits reality and they have to see that while some hundred like minded loonies agree, a few ten thousands of sane people consider them batshit insane.
Can't have that in the safespace that Twitter has become!
If I go down our list of EU politicians, I find a lot of inefficient, lazy bums. And I'm only counting the ones that are not either under investigation or have already been convicted of taking bribes from lobbying groups.
Not? So that organ donor that jumped in front of my car because his eyes were glued to the damn smartphone could have killed me while getting away without a scratch if I didn't hit the brakes like there's no tomorrow (and most likely there would not have been one for him)?
That's one part of the equation. That's also why fiddling with your cellphone while operating a vehicle carries a pretty heavy fine, at least in sane and civilized countries.
The other half is idiots with their eyes on the phone instead of traffic while walking about. At least they get an immediate feedback for their stupidity.
So we should spend millions on childproofing the roads because alleged adults cannot be assed to look left and right before running after some pokemon?
Victim? If you're too stupid to look where you're going, you're not a victim, you're a contamination of the gene pool and anyone cleaning up the mess should get his car fixed on your expense.
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Funny that you mention it.
For the first time in maybe a decade or two, I was trying to buy a CD again. To use in my car, which is pretty much the only place anymore where I have a CD player. So I browsed and checked, and I learned that music CDs containing about 40 minutes of music cost between 15 and 20 bucks today.
If you are really wondering why people don't buy this, take a wild guess.
The majority of any music ever produced is rubbish. The music of the 60s only looks so much better in comparison to today's because, well, what do "oldies station" play? The good, or the rubbish?
The 60s gave birth to a slew of really, really crappy music, created under the influence of heavy drugs that made the creator think it's gold when in fact it was even back then something you couldn't even listen to while you yourself were drugged out of your mind. It was simply and plainly absolute bullshit. And that's even only the music that got pressed on vinyl, while today every idiot with a computer can barf the results of him finding a cracked version of CuBase and some samples into YouTube.
Every time, ever, had its good and its bad music. What you remember is the few gems that qualify as good music.
Killing off the music industry may be the best thing that happened to music since the invention of the electric guitar.
This is why more and more artists simply bypass the big studios and publish themselves, either really doing it themselves or hiring services that get them online to various streaming portals for pennies compared to studio rates.
Face it, the "big five" are dinosaurs nobody needs anymore in this time and age. Even if you are a "real" band, i.e. playing instruments instead of creating everything inside a computer, there's plenty of great recording studios that will record your single for a few hundred bucks at quality, distribution is easy and painless now, too.
Who needs the parasites anymore?
As if artists got a bigger share from CD sales.
Now imagine what money they could rake in if they only manged to do this world wide instead of just the US market with "carefully selected options" available to the rest of would-be customers that are now pretty much required to find other ways to get their fix.
They're losing a billion a year and they're not folding? Can't be doing that badly, then.
Sweet, sweet serenade...
Figure of speech. Jeesh.
That would pretty much invalidate the whole social media business model. Every social media webpage would pretty much lose all its value over night and would have to...
Where do I sign?
Suddenly trying for the username @me isn't so great anymore.
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But 140 characters are easier to ignore than 2000.
Just compare the average goatse-posting with the average racist rant here. Both are annoying, but the goatse one is easier to scroll by.
No, he's just as batshit insane as many others on Twitter.
Personally, I go there whenever I need to stroke my ego. It's a bit like watching afternoon "reality" shows where you can feel good about not being as crazy as those idiots.
But then people would have to deal with rejection when their insanity hits reality and they have to see that while some hundred like minded loonies agree, a few ten thousands of sane people consider them batshit insane.
Can't have that in the safespace that Twitter has become!
That's why I prefer driving cars. If any crazies come too close, they're usually the ones that get killed.
Politicians?
My favorite was the texting unicycle that smacked straight into the side of an ambulance.
And don't you wish you had your phone out so you could have filmed that to put on YouTube?
If I go down our list of EU politicians, I find a lot of inefficient, lazy bums. And I'm only counting the ones that are not either under investigation or have already been convicted of taking bribes from lobbying groups.
Not? So that organ donor that jumped in front of my car because his eyes were glued to the damn smartphone could have killed me while getting away without a scratch if I didn't hit the brakes like there's no tomorrow (and most likely there would not have been one for him)?
Somehow I doubt it.
That's one part of the equation. That's also why fiddling with your cellphone while operating a vehicle carries a pretty heavy fine, at least in sane and civilized countries.
The other half is idiots with their eyes on the phone instead of traffic while walking about. At least they get an immediate feedback for their stupidity.
So we should spend millions on childproofing the roads because alleged adults cannot be assed to look left and right before running after some pokemon?
Victim? If you're too stupid to look where you're going, you're not a victim, you're a contamination of the gene pool and anyone cleaning up the mess should get his car fixed on your expense.
In what country do dead kids cry?
Should've been done a bit more often on some of the obnoxious adults that litter the internet these days.