"I think records were just a little bubble through time and those who made a living from them for a while were lucky. There is no reason why anyone should have made so much money from selling records except that everything was right for this period of time. I always knew it would run out sooner or later. It couldn't last, and now it's running out. I don't particularly care that it is and like the way things are going. The record age was just a blip. It was a bit like if you had a source of whale blubber in the 1840s and it could be used as fuel. Before gas came along, if you traded in whale blubber, you were the richest man on Earth. Then gas came along and you'd be stuck with your whale blubber. Sorry mate – history's moving along. Recorded music equals whale blubber. Eventually, something else will replace it."All the record companies are getting upset and crying foul as the money falls out of recorded music, as well as some of the artists. The companies claim this is entirely due to piracy, but is at least partly due to the over-engineered, pro-tools perfected, inane pop nonsense they have peddling for decades now. Records have become "louder" as they attempt to use compression to make their records stand out rather than focusing on the music itself. I'm all for this change. I hope the enormous multi-million record companies die out and in it's places grows a diverse range of much smaller companies who do things out of a love for music rather than simple greed.
Here's hoping.
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