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| Hit Charade - The music industry's self-inflicted wounds. By Mark Jenkins by Decius at 10:15 pm EDT, Aug 21, 2002 | |||
"In 1978, record sales began to fall, and the major labels blamed a larcenous new technology: cassette tapes... The idea was that music fans, ingrates that they are, would rather pirate songs than pay for them, and that sharing favorite songs was a crime against hard-working musicians (rather than great word-of-mouth advertising)... In 1980, however, the crisis was almost over. It turned out that home taping had not killed music. Instead, the central problem was the collapsing popularity of dance-poplively, sexy, but personality-free music whose appeal was broad but thin. They called it disco... " A ray of light stands out today against the ignorance flowing out of the PFF conference. Its nice to see this in a conservative publication like Slate. | |||
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| Hit Charade - The music industry's self-inflicted wounds. By Mark Jenkins by Reknamorken at 6:37 pm EDT, Aug 22, 2002 | |||
Big business record industry caused their own ills. Surprise! Need I remind anyone that big business short-term goals generally 'cause them far more grief than it's worth? | |||
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