No, it means the music industry as a whole is doomed, period.
Or, it means that technology (and preexisting oligopoly) has broken that particular market.
Individual consumers didn't buy and sell software in the 80's in the same way that software was sold in the 70's. (Go to computer store, vs. calls by the sales guy.) Consumers don't buy and sell software today like they did in the 2000's.
Throughout this whole time, people were writing software and getting paid to do so.
Musicians are not there to sell "experiences" in general: they are there to sell musical experiences. That's their art. Now that music does not make that much money, they will have to sell other crap and treat music as a byproduct.
Recordings themselves are an experiential byproduct.
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No, it means the music industry as a whole is doomed, period.
Or, it means that technology (and preexisting oligopoly) has broken that particular market.
Individual consumers didn't buy and sell software in the 80's in the same way that software was sold in the 70's. (Go to computer store, vs. calls by the sales guy.) Consumers don't buy and sell software today like they did in the 2000's.
Throughout this whole time, people were writing software and getting paid to do so.
Musicians are not there to sell "experiences" in general: they are there to sell musical experiences. That's their art. Now that music does not make that much money, they will have to sell other crap and treat music as a byproduct.
Recordings themselves are an experiential byproduct.
http://foucault.info/documents/foucault.thisIsNotaPipe.en.ht...
>>* No, it means the music industry as a whole is doomed, period.
Or, it means that technology (and preexisting oligopoly) has broken that particular market.*
So, basically the same thing in a different phrasing?
>Recordings themselves are an experiential byproduct.
Yes. I do think that the record ALSO removed the primary link between audience and musician. But al least it retained some of that.
A record is a byproduct primarily linked with music.
In a way that t-shirt, an autograph box, vinyl dolls etc are not.
So, basically the same thing in a different phrasing?
No, that would be like relating the facts I mentioned about the software industry, and saying that, "The Software Industry is Doomed, Period."
It's more like, "The X industry of time period Y through Z is doomed." Phrased that way, it seems embarrassingly obvious.
There is no, "The Music Industry," of all time. There is only music industry of a particular technological context.