February 2009
“The fact is that the music industry’s revenues have been artificially inflated for decades because of limited consumer options. The last 15 years of innovation have lifted those limitations, effectively leaving the music industry with an obsolete, defective business model of monopolized production technology, forced album bundling, and almost nonexistent competition in the realm of home entertainment. What is happening now - the decline of music profits and the piracy witch hunt by the music industry - is merely the panicked struggle of a dying business model, a complacent industry’s refusal to accept its diminishing role in a digital world. The pirates are not the reason, and the decline is the not the disease. It is the cure.”
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Jens Roland - How To Kill The Music Industry
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Perfect! This is exactly what I was trying to say yesterday, in a discussion about the “decline” of the music industry.
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ready to GO!
anyone can be a myspfacebook star
the record industry is dead
interviews are boring
there’s no use.
let’s play instead.
hey, not so easy…
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“More than any other record, ‘War’ is right for its time. It is a slap in the face against the snap, crackle and pop. Everyone else is getting more and more style-orientated, more and more slick. John Lennon was right about that kind of music; he called it ‘wallpaper music.’ Very pretty, very well designed, music to eat your breakfast to. Music can be more. Its possibilities are great. Music has changed me. It has the ability to change a generation. Look at what happened with Vietnam. Music changed a whole generation’s attitude towards war.”
—Bono, 1983
“Traveling with my record case, living out of the suitcase. The hotel is my home. Experiencing new worlds and cultures and accepting them; understanding, how things work in other places. Sharing views and politics. A club unites people without words. The music speaks. Recognizing the beauty of the world and absorbing the otherness. Home is far away and not important. The unknown attracts my attention - and I want to know it!”
—Ellen Allien
You can try to be realistic today, but it’s difficult for you to remain grounded. Your mind is racing along and you may not be able to make your words keep up with your ideas. Communication is exceptionally hard because your thoughts aren’t necessarily well-defined. And although this doesn’t dilute your process of daydreaming, it does constrain your ability to share what’s on your mind. Say less now while keeping your experiences to yourself. Pay close attention to where your imagination takes you.
“Our job is no longer to sell folks things they want to hear. They want an experience and to identify themselves as part of a community. Ownership then becomes a way of them supporting your community through investing in that community. Fostering that in an honest, transparent and “non-gross” way takes a combination of gracefulness, creativity and not taking oneself too seriously, while still taking art and music seriously.”
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hypebot: Indie Label Asthmatic Kitty Shares “What Is Working?”
I love this quote. It’s from the indie label behind Sufjan Stevens & I Heart Lung.
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