Re: music business slump

From: Olaf Molenveld (olaf@interactivelink.nl)
Date: Wed Nov 28 2001 - 10:58:21 CET

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    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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