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Never heard of any of these artists in that article. My favorite bands are all out of business. Nevertheless I do not think, that physical media will disappear. Too much people, including me, want to have their favorite music as CD.
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"The majors" is a broad term anyway. Who are "the majors"? They are (or were) huge record companies, that employ(ed) countless artists, producers, engineers, publicists, etc. Any corporation is people, and the larger a corporation is, the more people it is. Many of the major record labels of their time published a lot of music apart from the mainstream, often times stuff that would not sell. The heyday of CD sales was the heyday of the majors, but it was also the heyday for music. There was so much music available and published in, say, 1998, countless new records, classical recordings, obscure experimental stuff just as much as big pop star selling super albums... it's all gone. There is actually much, much,l less interesting music released these days, and I don't mean that in the least as a nostalgic. The city where I live claimed to have the largest record store in the world at one time. Of course, I don't know if that's true, but its classical section alone stretched over two department store size floors. Today, the space for all the music combined (CDs and vinyls), of all pop, rock, hip-hop, classical, film scores and, and, and, is no more than half the size of the mere classical music department just twenty years ago. So in that sense: yeah, I miss the majors. Not JUST the majors, but the many independent labels that could live and thrive in their wing, too. There used to be a time when I had to pick and choose the music to buy since I could not afford it all. Today, I feel lucky if I see a new release that excites me. And streaming etc. only makes music available that has already been recorded, but it does not finance new recordings.
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Today, I feel lucky if I see a new release that excites me. Most recent: Judas Priest's latest. Looks like it's not doing bad at all...considering it's 2018.
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So the music industry has always been overcharging us; we just had fewer alternatives back then. Well, they charged what the market would bear. I'm not sure I can say with any surety that they were overcharging. They may have been charging more than we wanted to pay, but producing music costs real money. Some albums made millions, but others most definitely did not. And regardless, even if they charged $8 rather than $18, it's still a hell of a lot more than free. I find that the prices for records are actually among the most stable prices of all. A new upmarket CD today costs about the same as ten or twenty or even thirty years ago.
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I have been hearing about the death of the cd for decades now. It's still here. Vinyl too. Yeah, it is not "dead" in the sense that it is gone. That will not happen any day soon. But CDs are dead in the sense that they were once a mainstream product and are now a niche product.
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I have been hearing about the death of the cd for decades now. It's still here. Vinyl too. Yeah, it is not "dead" in the sense that it is gone. That will not happen any day soon. But CDs are dead in the sense that they were once a mainstream product and are now a niche product. This puts it perfectly imo. Thank you.
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