Who cares. Music should be free. Artists should do what they love because they love it, not because they want to make money.

It doesn't cost much money to have a website with free music. Stop complaining and embrace the future.

prima facie definition of a freetard.

And what do you do for a living, shithead? Bain Capital?

Are you kidding me? So stop taking paychecks for whatever your profession is and work for free. That is ridiculous and what exactly are you basing the whole notion that music should be free on anyway?+

You don't get it. I make more money from the affiliate deals than the artists themselves from the album sales.

Feel free to copy my business model if you like to make $$ the easy way.

It is not rocket science.

There doesn't seem to be a business model with your site. It's just a directory listing of other peoples music. 

He makes money from the affiliates (Rapidshare e.t.c.), follow the download links and you will see the connection.

Your nothing but a parasite Wally. Scum of the earth 

Let's suppose for a minute that your business model is legal.  So why don't you just give your services away for free because you love helping others steal.

Are you serious?

Idiot.

I want the five seconds of my life back that it took to check your website and tell that it was crap

I am sorry that you didn't find what you were looking for. If you tell me the album title, I will upload it for you this week.

I am a Musician , Audio engineer , and I think you should be arrested , or worse delivered to me in a Canvas bag so that I can beat the living hell out of you , Bust your eardrums so that you can never hear anything again , then maybe you might appreciate music just a little more . 

   You dont deserve to hear 

new business model:-  mandatory 20 year prison term for freetards like Wally.

See if your favorite sports star or movie star would do their craft fpr free or how about you why don't you do yor job for free. It is silly moinded people like you that have hurt the musicians worse than any label could have ever done. Maybe take an economics class and see how life really works. 

Dude, when you decide to work for FREE because you love what you do then music will be free....Otherwise you're an F'n idiot!

Good luck at keeping the lights on!

I think this is because the older music is—a lot of the time—just better. Written better, better ideas, better production.

This even applies to music from the same artist.

Pretty much everyone is doing their worst music right now, IMO.

I agree that the new music as far as the craft of songwriting is not as compelling as it could be.  Country music has been more popular, more than likely do to the songwriting. The music was better in the seventies, and the eighties were a blast; but then everything changes, and perhaps we are coming into a Renaissance of better music about to be birthed.

 Lets' hope so and all things will come.

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New Music for a New Age

Artists need to learn that rushing music out and not really making sure your stuff is REALLY good before releasing it is going to further decrease the demand for music and make it worth less. It hurts all artists in the end.

There are also the adults who rebuy the music they liked 20 years ago. I wonder if reformed bands and basically all who are there for 20 years, sell better because they can count on a bigger and more loyal fan base, who was used to buy physical media and does not want/need to download.

When the revenue is cut in half isn't it only natural that the quality get cut in half too. Labels can no longer afford super producer production on every song and 6months - 1yr for artist development, etc

To the first commenter, by you logic, all art should be free? Paintings, jewelry, photographs, movies, etc? All art costs money and creative effort - from people who have to pay the rent like you and I. Just because you have a means to steal something doesn't mean you should. The mindset you stated is so sad.

What is considered to be the "old stuff" here?

I mean how old is "old"?

Emil, 

I'll clarify.  Technically, Nielsen Soundscan calls an album catalog once it's 18 months old, though 'catalog' can refer to something released decades ago.  Everything else is 'current'.

Actually, there's something called 'deep catalog,' I'm not sure where the exact line is on that definition, though it's a very substantial piece of catalog which I can break out if you guys are interested.

hth

/paul

I am curious if the really old stuff is selling so well because IT IS NOT COMPRESSED. Starting in the 90s, music producers crunched music so there wasn't the same dynamic range that there was in the 70s and 80s.  This trend has continued, even in Christian music.  My husband and I can tell when something's been over compressed, it sounds crappy. And, since most music is this way now, I rarely listen to anything current, I prefer the dynamic range of the older stuff, even if the recording isn't as crisp as today's recordings are.

Instead of bitching about compression, how about rewarding the artists and producers who care about their art? Check out the current ECM or ACT records. No compression/limiting.

New music has to compete with:  home video, home internet, hundreds of cable TV channels, computer games.

Old music, especially the performers from the classic rock era, didn't have to compete against that.   Maybe late classic rock had to compete against early cable TV, perhaps 30-50 channels.

In its day, old music performed many of the social functions (tribal bonding, signalling, pure entertainment at home) which are now assumed by the internet & mobile devices. 

I knew the world had changed the first time I saw kids lining up at Best Buy to buy a hot new game release at midnight.

Re: Older music is "just better"

I'm not convinced this is the case; while certainly today's pop raido churns out a lot of mindless crap, don't you think a more likely culprit in the sales descrepency between catalog and new music is the income break? Many fans of older music have much more disposable income than the current twentysomethings likely to be searching out new quality tunes--even the young people who want to buy music are fighting unheard of student debt and a difficult job outlook. It's not surprising that the music of the generation with money is selling better.

o Wally Was His Name (appropriately titled, I might add)

Since you feel that music should be free  and you obviously have no moral qualms about stealing it online (let's use the word stealing for what you are doing and not 'pirating' or 'file sharing'), do you walk into Bestbuy, Target, Wallmart, or wherever you shop, and steal items off the shelves.........?

That is exactly what you are doing online.  The internet has become one big private-I'm-not-going-to-get-caught paradise for stealing music and that allows people like you, who don't have a moral or ethical compass to guide them, to rationalize your behavior. Sorry bud. You're stealing.  Wallyisathief would be a better moniker for you. 

Oh, and whatever you do, I think you should work for free also.

older music is selling better for a few reasons:

the new generation, typically the buyers of new music, has NEVER bought music, and thinks it should be free... 

new music competes with apps, videogames, 500+ tv channels

the 'older' generation is used to buying music; is not following/buying new music due to time / style shifts, so buys what it knew

'older' bands benefited from years and years of big money promotions, videos, radio play, and simply having another decade or more of being out there,  etc leading to name familiarity & so purchases

i don't think it has anything to do with 'music now is crap' at all; every generation says that. i think it has more to do with buying what you know.  the first wave or two of pop music had say a thousand bands; by now the twentieth wave there are 100,000 bands 

and as for whazzhisname, everyone take a moment and report his site to google takedowns, or wherever. 

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