tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1060111488243961902.post6918872684873767186..comments2023-03-25T05:00:38.767-07:00Comments on "No one cares about your art": If I were making music 30 years ago: A breif history of the rise and fall of record companies.Andrew Mellohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13081466451121711738noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1060111488243961902.post-5231598252275891752009-11-06T08:49:34.486-08:002009-11-06T08:49:34.486-08:00I think the fact that you can run a record company...I think the fact that you can run a record company from your bedroom says it all. Its saturated the market, and thats that. Lame.<br /><br />www.melovemusic.commusicvitahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16597369356006242670noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1060111488243961902.post-9402004310912151292009-10-10T05:12:29.816-07:002009-10-10T05:12:29.816-07:00I feel like the last five posts were by the same p...I feel like the last five posts were by the same person.Andrew Mellohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13081466451121711738noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1060111488243961902.post-11060951768401039862009-10-09T19:09:20.171-07:002009-10-09T19:09:20.171-07:00Don't eat lead paintDon't eat lead paintGodnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1060111488243961902.post-62587030478389873022009-10-09T17:57:54.963-07:002009-10-09T17:57:54.963-07:00lol @ the music industrylol @ the music industrystevenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1060111488243961902.post-21253837173836226862009-10-09T17:55:27.622-07:002009-10-09T17:55:27.622-07:00Yep, you pretty much nailed it on the head kid.Yep, you pretty much nailed it on the head kid.The Music Industrynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1060111488243961902.post-62935679661964142362009-10-09T17:51:15.184-07:002009-10-09T17:51:15.184-07:00Seriously, is this kid for real?Seriously, is this kid for real?Barack Obamanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1060111488243961902.post-88922149651692321132009-10-08T14:19:42.502-07:002009-10-08T14:19:42.502-07:00Well said my friend! You are absolutely correct; I...Well said my friend! You are absolutely correct; I did not research any of this. The knowledge came mostly from watching every single episode of behind the music. I do agree with you for the most part. Unless you sold 10 million records, even back in the 70's you wouldn’t have made too much money from record sales. The same is true today as it was in yesteryears... touring is the primary way musicians make money. We both know this very well. : ).<br /> <br />Also this article was impart, purposefully negative to try to reveal to artists that there is no such thing as an easy answer when it comes to making money from music. It takes a lot of hard work. In future articles, I will be describing how to actually make money from music. I just wanted to make some articles that were slightly humorous and slightly dream crushing. Thus the blog title, “no one cares about your art.”<br />Although I did enjoy a lot of your points and I may integrate them in future articles.Andrew Mellohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13081466451121711738noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1060111488243961902.post-28116509664106341332009-10-08T13:50:39.520-07:002009-10-08T13:50:39.520-07:00In short, I think this history isn't so much a...In short, I think this history isn't so much an accurate as it is imaginative. This is how you imagined the record industry functioned throughout the past 3 decades without actually doing any research.<br /><br />First, the notion that it was much easier to get a record deal in the 1970's is an invention on your behalf. Music history is dotted with overnight successes and there are just as many of them if not more now. In most situations, those that are not anomalies, people had to be profitable (aka talented, marketable, recognizable) before they would sign an artist and pump money into their records.<br /><br />Bootlegging has always been an issue even before the advent of the internet. The notion that record companies have never heard the word free before is forgetting the impact of tapes. Metallica, for example, built their initial fanbase on bootleg tapes, one kid would record a tape for another kid and so on and so fourth. This was especially ironic when they decided to challenge napster.<br />If you heard a song on the radio and wanted to hear that song again you could tape that song, or you could buy just the single and not buy the entire record.<br /><br />Furthermore, the notion that no one buys music anymore is based solely on the fact that much of our demographic downloads music illegally. Are the record companies making as much as they used to solely on CD sales? No, however they continue to produce CDs because people still buy them. People also buy music online. Consider for instance Radiohead's In Rainbows, which made an estimated 10 million dollars. People were giving the opportunity to download this album for free, completely legally, and yet chose to pay for it. It is not solely the tween markets that are thriving.<br /><br />Musicians have always made most of their money through touring (licensing is important don't get me wrong). Record companies have always taken most of the profits from record sales and offered very little to the artist who produced it.<br /><br />I have to go to class now. However, when you post some kind of comprehensive history please do more background research. Avoid generalizations like "Now here I am. Its 2009, there is basically no such thing a record label that picks up bands anymore. No one buys music, everyone steals it." This is not only a generalization, it is flagrantly untrue.Shawn Massakhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06998428760297671196noreply@blogger.com