By Icepulse
Fri Jul 19, 2019 2:59 am
Monotremata wrote:Icepulse wrote:It’s illogical to complain about too many choices for music listening. The notion that things were better for the listener when only major label / imprint selections were readily available is preposterous. Think of how many great local artists never got heard because they didnt have the resources or savvy to get in front of some A&R guy.
In order to wade through the ****, you just need a good site that’s well organized. I like Bandcamp.
Who said it was because we only had major label imprints to listen to?? Independent music has existed as long as corporate music has. If thats all you knew about 'back then' were the big players, you weren't even looking very hard at your local record store (unless you're not old enough to have had those). You bought indie magazines, you read newsprint DIY zines, you actually went to local shows and networked with your other musician friends. You do know that all those punk bands little hipster kids buy shirts up at Hot Topic and H&M of were dirt poor, spending out of their own pocket to put out records and tour types when they were around right? The Misfits? Glenn Danzig stuck the damn center labels on the records himself when they came back from the pressing plant. 1979. They folded and glued all the covers together themselves. When you bought one of their records you sent that money to Glenn's PO Box and he hand wrote your address on the mailer it was sent to you in. Was the same with Minor Threat's Dischord Records, The Dead Kennedys Alternative Tentacles Records, all of them. Punk is just one example. Hip-hop was and sometimes still is the same way too. You think drum and bass and house music sells major label numbers? Somebody is still putting it out, you can bet Capitol and Warner Bros aren't wasting money on it.
Music has long existed outside of the major label industry, if you couldn't find it, thats just plain laziness.
I’m 50. I saw Sonic youth for 5 bucks. King Crimson twice, and everything from Run-DMC at the Garden to Zorn and Eye @ the knitting factory.
All I’m saying is that independent artists have both the tools and platform to deliver ideas anywhere in the world in seconds. If someone can’t sift the shit away to find it.. well.. that’s not really a “problem” with the state of music. It’s yours.
Also, be sure to tell those kids 
like I said, you don’t know what you’re talking about. All you are doing is showing your ignorance. You sample music thinking you own it. You make some basic beat from a loop pack, thinking you produce. You have more games install on your computer than plug ins. 
You know this easier than, making beats in garage band using apple loops. 
Dam and wow!
