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"maybe they deserve everything that they now have."

Maybe? These huge companies took the same saturation marketing techniques they used to help drive ever growing LP sales into flat sales in the early/mid 80's, fed the public a new medium on which to listen to the same old music, sold them that new medium at seemingly inflated prices, re-saturated the market with tons of "product" and are now suffering because no one in charge seems to have any foresight beyond the next quarterly sales reports.

The future for recording artists lays in boutique labels and direct marketing/sales, downloads and the Internet. The days of "blockbuster" breakthrough releases is a thing of the past, and that's what the big labels lived for and depended on, and what they haven't yet figured out how to survive without. They need to find a way to survive and possibly prosper while learning to turn down the volume. EVERY sale needs to count.

You're a kind soul, I think the music megacorps very much deserve what they now have, which is a creation of their own greed and lack of foresight and a dependency on outdated marketing and sales models.


"I always play jazz records backwards, they sound better that way"
-Thomas Edison

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