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35love
Healthy for the industry, no, indeed not.
Jay Z and Tidal, for instance, can't seem to win corporate even when they had Prince exclusives (you could buy tangible product from them, too)
The streaming is a response to utube, who made it all (just about) free.
In the young market, it's the gaming they want to spend money on, not music.
Music they get from utube. For free.
You know what? Fecesbook can bite me! It's just a portal where not so human human beings can watch other human beings die from the detached comfort of a computer screen. Okay, just wanted to get that out there.Quote
LongBeachArena72
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stonehearted
I'll tell you, LongBeach, this accessing of music on the fly does seem a bit spotty, not to mention overrated.
Does this streaming service track the unique IP addresses that access each title? I ask this because it would seem that numbers of "listens" can be artificially inflated in the same way as can YouTube views.
People with an "interest" in the product can bump up the numbers. For instance, when the Doors released their first single, Break On Through, in 1967, they got their friends to call in to Los Angeles radio stations to request it, so it got more airplay in that market than it otherwise would have generated -- the song "bubbled under" at #126 nationwide.
Another question I wonder about is that since the established music industry seems to make no money from the streaming phenomenon, then what about the artists and songwriters -- do they get compensated? Do the music publishing societies keep track of streams and acknowledge these as royalty generating?
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Natlanta
man i wish i'd started spotify.
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stonehearted
Once I buy a CD it's paid for -- I can listen to it for years and years. But with Spotify, you never stop paying to listen to your favorite songs -- it's the ultimate ripoff.
You know, I can tell you that how many CDs I've bought in the last year is astronomical. Owing, in large part, to Amazon and their sellers, of course. So many things that I never thought I would have bought, considering how the brick and mortal [I saw this typo, but thought I'd leave it -- kind of fitting, don't you think?] outlets have let me down lately.Quote
LongBeachArena72
how many cd's do you buy a year?
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DandelionPowderman
Also it's interesting that the list of most popular Stones-songs is almost chemically free of songs Mick Taylor played guitar on. How can it be? I only spot Angie, Wild Horses and Honky Tonk Women there...
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DandelionPowderman
Also it's interesting that the list of most popular Stones-songs is almost chemically free of songs Mick Taylor played guitar on. How can it be? I only spot Angie, Wild Horses and Honky Tonk Women there...
The official liner notes of Brown Sugar and Tumbling Dice (which he contributes the undisputed and excellent bass guitar as you well know) list Taylor as a guitar player and he's getting performance royalties so I'm sure he doesn't care. What's even more interesting is that after Taylor there are only three songs from the majority of their recording career.
The fact that Jimmy Miller produced nine of those is no coincidence. He knew how to get the best performance out of the Stones in the studio.
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TravelinMan
What's even more interesting is that after Taylor there are only three songs from the majority of their recording career.
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stoneheartedYou know, I can tell you that how many CDs I've bought in the last year is astronomical. Owing, in large part, to Amazon and their sellers, of course. So many things that I never thought I would have bought, considering how the brick and mortal [I saw this typo, but thought I'd leave it -- kind of fitting, don't you think?] outlets have let me down lately.Quote
LongBeachArena72
how many cd's do you buy a year?
I've got, for instance, The Complete Pop Instrumental Hits of 1959 -- and for that matter, 1960, 1961, and 1962. All the instrumental singles that charted on the Billboard charts in a given year. When was the last time you heard Percy Faith and His Orchestra doing Theme From a Summer Place? Well, I can hear it all day long if I want, and no corporation knows how many times I've heard it. I have the greatest hits of the Platters and the Flamingos, and just the other day "The Complete Soul City/Bell Singles" of The 5th Dimension. I've collected all of Dusty Springfield's albums, UK and US, from 1964 to 1974, plus a career retrospective (Simply... Dusty), as well as all of Bobbie Gentry's work. All of the Dutch band the Shocking Blue. I have enough CDs to program a radio station for a month without repeats. By next near, I'd be able to program 2 months' worth. I even have a CD set of Alan Watts lectures, Out of Your Mind (12 CDs).
And there are bootleg CD suppliers as well -- this one in Canada sent me a London audience concert of David Gilmour from April 24, 2016. It was just after Prince died, and Gilmour incorporates Purple Rain into Comfortably Numb. You won't hear that on Spotify. There's this other bootleg CD source where I get all of the out of print CD issues of albums by the Dave Clark 5.
I also found a 5-CD box set of the Walker Brothers. The genius of Scott Walker is something the Spotify generation will just have to live without. Their loss.
Well, that's just a few. To answer your question -- I've bought dozens of CDs in the last year, and I'll buy dozens more in the next.
And how about audio books? Those come out on CD. Do they have audio books streaming on Spotify, like the Big Finish productions of Dark Shadows that have been released over the past decade? Probably not, as I would imagine the average streaming attention span would be too spotty to catch something like that on the fly.
I'm an old-fashioned guy in a modern world, I value vintage things about culture, including the television I grew up on. I'll soon be starting a WordPress blog on one of my favorite TV shows, Dark Shadows. I let my passions guide me -- and these days my vintage tastes guide me into a time tunnel of my own making.
As for "failed" this and that, that's only a state of mind. You've just got to be happy with what you do, and who you are. Distractions are a part of life, but so is balance. Don't let the outside world win!