Enrico Aldi 🇯🇵 アルディ on Gab: 'No, I'm not really trying to call for a rebel att…'
Enrico Aldi 🇯🇵 アルディ on Gab: 'No, I'm not really trying to call for a rebel attitude according that image. But there's something ironic I've seen around the Internet: "Piracy is Killing The Music", "Home Taping is Killing The Music", "Vinyl Record is Killing the MP3", "MP3 is killing the Music", most of them comes from the music industries' campaigns against the so-called "piracy". However the reality is that: MUSIC INDUSTRY IS KILLING THE MUSIC.
Back in the 1980's: I started to buy music, just with my small amount of money that my parents used to give me for my school's stuff. I could use the bus, have the lunch, then some for my school and still some coins to save periodically to buy music. How was that possible? Simple: at that time there were the single format. Well, I couldn't remember the price of those underrated 45rpm vinyl discs, but was a great experience: you may listen a song at the radio or a vdeoclip from TV, and be like "omg, I love that song! sounds so cool... I wanna have the single" then go to record store and ask for the song at that simple way: "hey, I want "x" song from "x" artist"... then the guy show the single "here the song... " and pay just few bucks for it. Until now I have lots of those singles I treasure them. I did not need to buy an LP (12" inch vinyl records) just for a song.
Then came the cassette single, a very attractive yet portable format for the same purpose, but easier to carry. I used to see so many of them at school when kids said which favorite song came from radio or TV. but, came the 90's and the high demand of compact discs. Turned to be so hard to find singles. I never forget a experience back in 1998, when Cher released her super hit "Believe", and I wanted to get the single, but I found out that was so hard to find. One day I was in a local mall, searching that damn song at some stores and saw two versions: a mini-CD single, but coming along with the full length CD, the price was a little higher than a normal CD. I complained about that, it was a insult for me as a user, a music lover. Then the next store, finally found the single, but the price was the same as a full-length CD. After some complaining with the boy from the store, I said "you know what? FUCK YOU... I won't accept that abuse". Months later I discovered Audiogalaxy, it marked my first start on digital download of the songs I wanted to have. Then Napster. I wasn't the only one: millions around the world started to do the same. Some people may call it piracy. In some way, yes it was, but who's fault? simple: the music industry, those who stole our right to pay just a part for a song we want. So, Piracy did not kill the music, but MUSIC INDUSTRY really KILLED the music.
At the beginning of the 2000's I had an interesting argument with an BMG agent, who was viscerally mad against "music downloads" that was "killing the music selling" but I had to response with the problem of Records companies taking rid of singles that saved both companies and music consumers, and that led them to download just the songs they wants. At the end he got his mouth shut after my arguments.
Now, the actual problem from music industries: are the re-editions of certain music, and force users to pay at a ridiculous prices. Last year I was in a record store and found some important vinyl records re-editions at an obscene price of $150 dollars each. WTF? There are so many titles I wish to have but cannot afford cause of the Industry's abuse to users. What could I do? Simple: I use some trackers, download those records and transfer to MiniDisc.
So that's why I say here, as I did at the previous post: DON'T TELL ME ABOUT PIRACY, TELL ME ABOUT THE ABUSE OF THE MUSIC INDUSTRY.
Conclusion:
MUSIC INDUSTRY IS KILLING THE MUSIC. PERIOD.
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