the soggy bottom boys rule! ;)
Olaf
----- Original Message -----
From: Harry Marquez <organiccompound@hotmail.com>
To: <acid-jazz@ucsd.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, November 28, 2001 6:50 AM
Subject: RE: music business slump
> Just a few random thoughts. not very cohesive.
>
> yeah, i'd have to agree with Mark about this. especially at a time when
> half the kids in your neighborhood have CD burners, i think the average
> consumer would be willing to cut music buying out of their tighter
> recession-riddled budgets. general entertainment spending seems pretty
> recession-proof, though, based on the latest box office figures.
>
> for some strange reason, even though i too have been unemployed for most
of
> the year, i've been buying music like crazy. it's been a pretty good year
> for tunes of all genres. and even though my music spending has been up,
> only a few of my purchases have had anything to do with the major american
> record companies since most of my faves this year have been imports
(zero7,
> the avalanches, royksopp, zoot woman, etc), import catalog (pepe bradock,
> leftfield, joe meek), and vinyl (most of which are imports, indie, or
both).
>
> and let's face it: a lot of the major label stuff is just tired. who
needs
> another mariah carey album (or movie)? not me. boyband pop music seems
to
> be surpassing the saturation point and has marketed itself into an
> identifiable formula that the kids are hoping to trade in for some nasty
> Nu-Metal/Rap-Rock (which is this year's surprising big seller genre). and
> is it me, or has most hip hop been a little less exciting this year? i
> really liked a few tracks this year ("get ur freak on" is still da bomb),
> but i've been bored with a lot.
>
> also, the music industry is just crazy. think about it: the best selling
> world music title of the past year was that album with that "Who Let The
> Dogs Out" song, and last year's best selling country album was the Coyote
> Ugly soundtrack. does that sound sane to you?
>
> Peace,
> Ha
>
> p.s. this year's big country album i think is the soundtrack for O
Brother,
> Where Art Thou? That album is strangely also da bomb.
>
> >Personally I've been unemployed for most of this year. And I *know*
that's
> >gotta be a significant decrease in sales for GrooveDis. ;-)
> >
> >But on a wider scale, I do think music is one of the first things MOST
> >people (not aj listers, of course) would cut out when tightening their
> >budget. This has been a tough year for a lot of folks, and I'm not
> >surprised
> >to hear that music sales are down as a result.
>
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