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Bullshit Fox News Says

RJKarl said:
You're right. With inflation, those tix would be $50 now.

Conversely, the first Apple Fairlight synthesizer cost about $40,000 in 1984 (about $150,000 now). People would wait for hours just to see it and play with one for an hour. Today, you can get much better programs for $1000 or less.
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how much are Stevie Wonder and Stones tix these days?
 
I'd wager the boomers are the ones setting the ticket costs in much more sophisticated venues in high rent areas vs whatever falling apart warehouses, theaters, stadiums a lot of artists used to play in back in the day
 
TIL music execs would have kept ticket prices down but only because of those durn downloaders, they just had to raise them.
 
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BarcaDeac said:
I'd wager the boomers are the ones setting the ticket costs in much more sophisticated venues in high rent areas vs whatever falling apart warehouses, theaters, stadiums a lot of artists used to play in back in the day
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That's not the reason. Today, most of the money artists make is from touring due to the catastrophic decline in sales.

As to the venues, top venues got top dollars and still do. Bands have been doing wild effects shows since the 70s.
 
boomers have made everything great awful. no question. they got the best version of everything and then ruined it and now tell young people it's their fault
 
fucking preach, man
 
Boomers literally killed the music industry, RJ. What the fuck are you talking about?

Also, since when are legendary autotuners such as Zapp and Roger, Bobby Caldwell, and the entire genre of awful 80s-00s pop dance music millennials?

Computer love, RJ.
 
Strickland33 said:
Boomers literally killed the music industry, RJ. What the fuck are you talking about?

Also, since when are legendary autotuners such as Zapp and Roger, Bobby Caldwell, and the entire genre of awful 80s-00s pop dance music millennials?

Computer love, RJ.
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WTF are you talking about? The music industry was killed in the late 90s by Napster and buried by streaming in the 00s. Neither of those events had anything to do with boomers. Napster was created by Sean Parker and Shawn Fanning. Neither of which are close to being boomers.

Until Napster, artists made good livings from writing songs and selling records. Only a few can do that today.
 
RJKarl said:
WTF are you talking about? The music industry was killed in the late 90s by Napster and buried by streaming in the 00s. Neither of those events had anything to do with boomers. Napster was created by Sean Parker and Shawn Fanning. Neither of which are close to being boomers.

Until Napster, artists made good livings from writing songs and selling records. Only a few can do that today.
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Napster exploited an already exploitative and dying industry. Napster hurt the labels and the biggest artists, but didn’t make much of a dent outside of the mainstream. The rise of indie rock (and labels) and genres like hip-hop, country, and punk supporters that claim. Or, at least, that’s what my friends who are currently touring musicians say.

If anything besides greedy executives and the consolidation of radio stations and record labels (eg, boomer causes) killed the music industry then it’s probably streaming. Spotify, for instance, affects almost all tiers and genres of music, rather than arena rock and top-40 stuff. That’s a far less ridiculous claim than claiming that the likes of Napster, Limewire, etc. though industry insiders love to blame these companies for their own incompetence.
 
The music industry killed it self when they switched from vinyl to compact discs as the primary products.
 
Strickland33 said:
Napster exploited an already exploitative and dying industry. Napster hurt the labels and the biggest artists, but didn’t make much of a dent outside of the mainstream. The rise of indie rock (and labels) and genres like hip-hop, country, and punk supporters that claim. Or, at least, that’s what my friends who are currently touring musicians say.

If anything besides greedy executives and the consolidation of radio stations and record labels (eg, boomer causes) killed the music industry then it’s probably streaming. Spotify, for instance, affects almost all tiers and genres of music, rather than arena rock and top-40 stuff. That’s a far less ridiculous claim than claiming that the likes of Napster, Limewire, etc. though industry insiders love to blame these companies for their own incompetence.
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You don't have a clue what you are talking about. You can pose all you like, but you are totally wrong.
 
Gen X and millennials gave us like 100 NOW! That’s What I Call Music! albums, so clearly we are doing something right in the music industry
 
Can we get back to calling out Fox News for bigotry and bias? Kthx
 
RJKarl said:
You don't have a clue what you are talking about. You can pose all you like, but you are totally wrong.
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It seems RJ is one of the hangers on who never made anything of value yet profited off the old music model and hates the current paradigm where musicians have largely been able to cut out the disgusting middle men.
 
RJ doing work in the old days

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