One is that music lovers want to hear the songs first and they don’t want trash. So they will get just the songs that are good and leave the rest unsold.

The other is that p2p has become the place to hear new stuff. It isn’t offered on the radio except for those they want to be the major hits. The major hits usually aren’t very good when you get down to it as it is all homogeneous to try and make sure they are big sellers. Music listeners aren’t fooled and because of that the hits don’t last very long on the top before they sink down into the mass of unwanted crap. What’s a hit today no one wants in the modern music next year.

Back in the past, the single was the way songs were sold. Albums were pushed as the great way to make a lot more money. Lessor talents meant less to fill the album with that were good and so the filler was born. So they sowed the seeds of the present conditions that reflect no one wants the filter, only that one or two good songs. They’re still selling music, just not albums where the real profit is.

The majors grew larger and larger in corporate size with the inflow of major money. Now they are on a serious diet and are having to shrink back to what they were before all the schemes came to produce more money. What is missing in this is that there are now no local DJs that play the local bands. You don’t hear something that payolla in it’s new form doesn’t approve of. That has dropped the interest level in these made groups and people are now looking for other means to entertainment that isn’t music.

Various other countries have major import fees on that music that isn’t home grown. They are so out of range of the average Joe that piracy is really the only way to make any sort of collection. Even in the countries where major music is accepted, it’s price is still too high for what you get. It’s just not a value worth paying such prices as are demanded for.

I can think of no other business that sue’s it’s own best customers. While they may not believe they are doing damage to themselves, it is becoming more and more evident as they time and again get laws made to their benefit only to find it doesn’t help. It’s a sign they have peed in their own food bowl and they aren’t liking the taste at all.

So sad, too bad. The world will be a better place without big music in it’s present form.

They will start to listen only when we start to shoot them but it will be too late.

Well! Not anymore because we are now boycotting.

(COMPANIES OF PARASITES WE BOYCOTT UNTIL THEY DIE: Warner Bros/Time Warner, MGM, Columbia Pictures, 20th Century Fox, Sony/BMG, Vivendi/Universal, EMI.)

They only want us to stop fileshare so we can make sure they will die!

They have ruined music and made it worse ever since videos, talent bands don’t get promoted because they are not pretty enough for a video. This is the real reason sales have sucked.

wouldn’t that be something.