Has anyone noticed that this 'decline' mostly follows pop music? Most mp3's bounced back and forth through file sharing progs have woefully incomplete id3 tags. Many people (actual music people, not 'pop' music people) who want, say, a specific (conductor / orchestra / soloist / line-up), isn't going to use a file sharing program, they're going to buy a cd. There's a reason there are half a dozen different recordings of the Vivaldi Recorder Concertos in my local cd store, and a reason I got the one I did.
File sharing programs don't allow for specifics. Often songs on kazaa won't even be by the band it says they'll be - it will be a cover, or (worse) a 'techno remix'. Not to mention tracking down specific live tracks is relatively impossible.
So maybe the concept of marketing music as a 'product' instead of as 'music' has finally come back to haunt 'them'.
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Has anyone noticed that this 'decline' mostly follows pop music? Most mp3's bounced back and forth through file sharing progs have woefully incomplete id3 tags. Many people (actual music people, not 'pop' music people) who want, say, a specific (conductor / orchestra / soloist / line-up), isn't going to use a file sharing program, they're going to buy a cd. There's a reason there are half a dozen different recordings of the Vivaldi Recorder Concertos in my local cd store, and a reason I got the one I did.
File sharing programs don't allow for specifics. Often songs on kazaa won't even be by the band it says they'll be - it will be a cover, or (worse) a 'techno remix'. Not to mention tracking down specific live tracks is relatively impossible. So maybe the concept of marketing music as a 'product' instead of as 'music' has finally come back to haunt 'them'.