Scott Andrew - lo-fi acoustic pop superhero!

Brad is tired of rants about the music industry…and so am I. I’ll admit that most of my past posts were mostly for my own benefit, me thinking out loud, trying to decide on a firm position. Now I’m just tired of making arguments about stuff that should be common sense.

It’s now fashionable to bash the Evil Music Industry and pray for its destruction, and I suspect much of the noise is disingenuous howling from artists who never had much of a chance anyway, convinced that it’s the man that’s holding them back. The bizarro world of the Big Labels is so far outside anything that concerns me it’s almost a non-issue, but let’s be honest here: you’d take the call if it came. I know I would. Heck, I’d probably even take a meeting.

And then there’s that remaining core of artists that really do believe that the CD Is Never Going Away¹, that People Won’t Pay For What They Can Get For Free², and that Internet == The Devil’s Xerox Machine³, etc.

What I’d like to do is shove all these people into a time machine and send them back to 1990, where you could charge $20 for a CD but commercial radio ruled everything and the only way to be known in Australia was to go to Australia. And then when they weren’t looking I’d teleport back to the present and blow up the lab. Ha ha!

I don’t want anything to do with the first group and I’m bored of arguing with the second. So into the time machine they go. Bwoop!

I’d love to make money from music as much as anyone, but at the end of the day it’s more important that a lot of people just get to hear the stuff.

¹ right, like the vinyl LP, the 45, the cassette tape, the wax cylinder, et al.
² right, like bottled water, diet pills, et al.
³ right, like Gutenberg and his press, printing all those Bibles and stuff.