Music Industry? What industry?

[Ron West]

Yup, I was thinking the exact same thing. The idea that you can get
filthy rich by playing music, playing sports, etc. is absurd.

On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 9:22 AM, James Coplin <james at ticalun.net> wrote:
> I think that what often is forgotten regarding music is that the idea of the
> big artist/industry etc. is a fairly recent innovation.  Certainly, there
> have always been famous musicians but I see music returning to the state it
> was in before the 1930s when everything was more or less "folk" minus a few
> notable elite cultural exceptions.
>
> James R. Coplin
>
>
> On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 8:18 AM, Ron West <ronwest at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> The more the merrier.
>>
>> On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 8:59 AM, Jay Vaughan <seclorum at mac.com> wrote:
>> > Nice article making the blog-rounds today:
>> >
>> >
>> > http://rocknerd.co.uk/2013/09/13/culture-is-not-about-aesthetics-punk-rock-is-now-enforced-by-law/
>> >
>> > tl;dr- the music industry isn't dying because of piracy - its dying
>> > because of competition.  In a nutshell: there are too many people trying to
>> > be professional musicians.
>> >
>> > What thinks the -bar?
>> >
>> > j.
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