[NewMusic] Death of the record industry (cont'd.)

[Moe! Staiano]

No, the word of mouth thing is good depending on what it is. The depletion of radio is depressing is what I was trying to reference. I think radio is a hugely important medium (I listen to it every day, though, oops, I'm not a college student), and to hear people say that no one listens to radio is depressing. I've been exposed to a lot of music from the radio and enjoy listening to it. I would hate so see that go altogether. 

-M!


Tim Perkis <tim at perkis.com> wrote:
Moe! Staiano wrote:
> Pretty damn depressing in my opinion....
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>   -M!
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This doesn't seem depressing to me, it seems completely hopeful. What is 
'word of mouth' but authentic culture by real people? The fact that 
these focus group people are finding out about everything by 
'word-of-mouth' means they aren't being influenced by what's being 
pushed, but by what their peers think is interesting. To me that's 
really an exciting development.


> Michael Zelner  wrote:
>   From Sunday's NY Times Magazine profile of Rick Rubin:
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>> ...and the 
>> biggest thing in their life is word of mouth. That's how they hear 
>> about music, bands, everything."
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> Full story:
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