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Who cares about iTunes (Rant)
Author: Inoyun on July 20 2007 Viewed 3893 times. 10 people liked this blog. You can rate it below if you haven't already.
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I want to preface this with respect to all music groups as this is just on my mind and not directed at any particular artist but at the same time everyone in general:
So here we are...face to face...a couple of silver...WAIT!!!!
Thats not what I wanted to say. But it does resonate with the point I will make in a sec. EM411 was shown to me as one of the 'Better' forums to discuss and share music and music related topics and I have been happy with EM411 every time I come here (literally..J/K maybe you missed that one...anyway)
So here we all are, subscribing to a slice of the American Dream which is the dream of the self, all wrapped up in our ideas of self promotion and self accomplishments and we are getting pretty damn good at it.
Piracy has forced the hand that provides movies and music to the consumer faster than we ever could have lobbied for legally and if it were still up to Sony, we'd still be paying $75 for ET on VHS. Point is that we all are succeeding at creating the alternate revenue stream in the market. Revenue in the form of information and intangible goods such as music. So we've done it...Yey!...(sniff)
So whats the big frikin deal with everyone getting on the iTunes bandwagon already? There are a gazillion, a frikin gazillion other ways to distribute your tracks. I am a part of forums and groups that have for YEARS supported the free distribution of free music and the communication of styles and techniques that enhance ones creation of musical thought. Now its like there is the big push to, in a way, go against the very grain that has developed the minds belonging to such forums.
I fully am aware and am in agreeance that iTunes is 'just another avenue' to get your music out, but I've been seeing this huge push lately to move from the distribution of free music to that of making money off of ones music. If there are no more original ideas (arguably) then what does it mean to offer more non originality to the world that others have to pay for?
It is unfolding just as it should, as TS Elliot would say "We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started, and know the place for the first time.", except now we can add "And we are going to make some fucking money along the way too". We are coming out against the grain, creating what then becomes mainstream and then all memorizing in a sick way the looping memory that eventually becomes the equivalent of POGS (Remember those? Where did those go?) or the main theme to 'Silver Spoons' or 'Different Strokes' or whatever novelty-esque media theme you can insert here.
Is music becoming one big jingle that we are all trying to write? Fucking Capitalism.
(Sigh)
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bbwax
no no, what i mean to say i don't expect topless bitches and palm fronds and hot tubs from my electronic music. now, from my polka music, that's another story. rock out!
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Inoyun
bbwax...I'll swing by this morning in my limo and pick you up for lunch
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bbwax
haha, all right. champagne and caviar!
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p1ay3rtw0
oh yeah, of course non of us are struggling, we gots the squabble beatz.
It sucks for every one else though *lights cigarette with stack of $100 bills, blows smoke in neighbors baby's face*
*cough cough
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