Music Industry? What industry?

[Tony Scharf]

Without reading the article, I've had that thought for a long time.  
It's basic supply and demand.  Increase the supply to fill demand at a given quality level and the price drops.  I don't think its any coincidence that as access to professional grade tools has increased, industry has started hurting - particularly since peoples standards for what they consider 'quality' music is very subject and easily attainable at the home/artisan level.  
Also, people want video.  They don't actually care about music by itself much anymore.  Put a track on sound cloud and no one really cares.  Put a video on youtube (even if its just disembodied hands tweaking knobs) and you will get a LOT more attention.  Thats just the way people are I suppose. 
Tony

> From: seclorum at mac.com
> Subject: Music Industry?  What industry?
> Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2013 14:59:45 +0200
> To: music-bar at lists.music-bar.org
> 
> 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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