One thing that people forget, time and time again, when putting up arguments like this is that a majority of the music that people chose to listen to is large-budget,
commercial music. Yes, somebody can make
real music in their garage, with a reasonable ammount of expenditure and effort. But, what's topping the charts right now? Overproduced
boy bands, and sugary sweet
bubblegum pop music. I'm sorry, but it takes a lot of work to make somebody who sounds like
Britney Spears safe to listen to.
The listening public has been spoiled, and I doubt the average pop music fan could stomach a
lo-fi garage recording, having been raised on the output of multi-million dollar studios, and recordings produced by uber-
engineers who could turn my
wet farts into a
top 40 hit.
Yeah, I've got no love for the price gouging, media manipulating bastards at the
RIAA, but then again, I really don't listen to much of what they release. Piracy is one way to deal with the situation, but, if you look at the history of the
C=64,
Atari and the
Amiga, one large reason that the platforms went under was because of rampant
piracy.
I won't miss commercial music, but will you?