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Great first line
Alas, it's pretty much true.
Well, not that music that's for sure 😉
Reminded me of "not the 9 o'clock news" doing "nice video, shame about the song"
Makes Sleeper sound like the Velvet Underground. 😐
Completely untrue though.
"UK consumers purchased £514.5m of physical music in 2015"
[url= http://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/physical-music-dominates-uk-market-and-its-stubbornly-refusing-to-die/ ]http://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/physical-music-dominates-uk-market-and-its-stubbornly-refusing-to-die/[/url]
Artists could make it easier for themselves, wanted to buy something from the Black Rebel Motorcycle Club and the only way I could would be to download and install i-tunes first then buy from Apple, which frankly was enough to put me off.
Is it so hard for a band to sell music from their own website?
Is it so hard for a band to sell music from their own website?
Yes it is if they have signed an exlcusive contract
Streaming services pay a pittance, disgraceful really
Streaming services pay a pittance, disgraceful really
They charge a pittance too. £10 a month for everything on Spotify is insanely cheap.
It's a fine balance. When folk were torrenting the artists got zero.
Make streaming too expensive and it'll drive everyone back to torrenting. At least the artists get something, albeit a pittance
I bought a CD a few weeks ago because it was half the price of the download. Now I've ripped it and have a nice coaster.
People still buy music. Not some disgruntled unoriginal crap whinging about how hard it is to be a musician though.
Christ that's rubbish
Blows my mind people use "blows my mind" as a lyric at this time,
Those musicians arent good enough to be fine,
Making that rubbish should be a crime,
Bad rhyme after bad rhyme after bad rhyme
You know when they have the regional rounds on xfactor on ice, and some talentless **** wit who has been told they are great by their inbred family, can't accept that their impression of a cat dragging it's claws down a blackboard isn't the greatest thing since a junky laid a turd in the bed.
That's your mum.
Why's it a great first line?
I buy music all the time. Straight from the artist themselves. Kinda what bandcamp is for.
Recently include:
https://carrytheweightrecords.bandcamp.com/album/discography
https://ihatebleak.bandcamp.com/album/bleak
https://laurenbousfieldanyev3r.bandcamp.com/album/avalon-vales
https://gunshipmusic.bandcamp.com/album/gunship
And OP that song is horrific. Whiny entitlement bullshot.
I do admire 6079smithw's persistence
Yes, buying CD's from Artists could be made easier.
I tried to buy Lonelady's CD, from their website. But you had to register with them, give all your details etc, something which I did not want to do, so I emailed them, told them I didnt want to register, and how could I buy their CD. I got the answer back 'you have to register to buy'.
I got a 2nd hand one off ebay then.
Yeah, typing your own name is such an effort. Was so much easier back in the day, when you had to drive to a record shop, look through the racks, find the one you want, or ask at the counter to order it, pay cash, go home and play it. I wonder why it got so difficult..
That songs as shite as the new Independence Day film
(In)sincere apologies to the [s]artist[/s] [s]musicians[/s] people in the video if they ever read this
That tune probably sums me up! I don't think I've bought a CD for about 10 years. I've never bought any downloadable music in my life. I listen to music for the majority of my waking day. I pay no attention to any music media/websites. I just listen to wherever Soundcloud/Youtube take me. With an Ad block installed it's perfect. I imagine that's how most people listen to music, along with Spotify which I've never got round to bothering with.
johnners - MemberI bought a CD a few weeks ago because it was half the price of the download
Yep, me too. It is very weird.
Here's another jem form the same band.
Its a parody band isn't it? If not, they are bloody awful.
Yes, buying CD's from Artists could be made easier.
I tried to buy Lonelady's CD, from their website. But you had to register with them, give all your details etc, something which I did not want to do, so I emailed them, told them I didnt want to register, and how could I buy their CD. I got the answer back 'you have to register to buy'.
I got a 2nd hand one off ebay then.
How do you expect them to know who to charge and then send it to? Why on earth do you have such an issue with registering on a band's website?
Most of my friends buy CD's, most don't download anything at all. I do, but then I still buy quite a few CD's as well, most recently the latest by Leonard Cohen, Pixies, Agnes Obel, several classical albums by the cellist Caroline Dale, a couple of Heidi Talbot's latest albums and a little box set of Linda Ronstadt's first five albums.
Oh, and the second EP from Bryde, the solo project by Sarah Howells, one half of Paper Aeroplanes, which I bought at her Bristol gig and she sent me as soon as she had them from the pressing plant.
There might have been some downloads for that instant gratification thing as well.
From iTunes, naturally.
Just spent thirty seconds listening to that vid up there ^^...
It's very...
Ordinary. Maybe even average. That could be from any one of a thousand identical bands plugging away, and doing nothing original at all.
About a minute into that video she turns on the spot as if looking for something, only to end up facing a wall. Lolz
How do you know she wasn't looking for a wall?
True, true, she could've been
At 1:24 you can see a close-up of it and it's a wall built from unsold Zen Juddhism CDs.