hexagon_sun
Manager
A simple question - do you think the "Myspace revolution" is changing the music industry for the better?
I'm just curious to see how many poeple here frequent the site and use it to find new music. Personally, I think it's a great thing - for a start it means that anybody making music can now have a web presence at no cost at all. A little bit of communism within a global capitalist industry. Despite the fact that every band and it's dog now has a Myspace Music page, on Myspace Radiohead, The Flaming Lips and Bjork are competing on the same level playing field (albeit with a considerable head start) as novemthree, Bosque Brown and Eidas Mai (to name just 3 of my favourite recent Myspace discoveries). I love the way that by finding the page of 1 band you like you can follow a trail and end up discovering far more great music than you would by reading the NME or listening to Radio 1.
I despise the corporate music industry and for a while now, I've been making a concerted effort to distance myself from it in every way. I no longer read the music press, listen to music radio or watch music television. If I want an album on a major label I make sure I download it illegally. For free. On the flipside, I do everything I can to find truly innovative music to listen to and wherever possible I buy it direct from the labels (or - even better - the bands) and support real talent at a grass roots level away from the bullsh!t we've all been spoon-fed for so many years by clueless ponytailed p%&*ks in expensive suits who don't know jack f%&king sh!t about real artistic integrity. Myspace makes it easier than ever to cut out the major labels and chainstores and support artists and labels directly.
I know the majors are bound to muscle in at some point and try to take Myspace over and use it as a tool for plugging all their vacuous, inane, bland tripe but in the meantime, vive la revolution!
I'm just curious to see how many poeple here frequent the site and use it to find new music. Personally, I think it's a great thing - for a start it means that anybody making music can now have a web presence at no cost at all. A little bit of communism within a global capitalist industry. Despite the fact that every band and it's dog now has a Myspace Music page, on Myspace Radiohead, The Flaming Lips and Bjork are competing on the same level playing field (albeit with a considerable head start) as novemthree, Bosque Brown and Eidas Mai (to name just 3 of my favourite recent Myspace discoveries). I love the way that by finding the page of 1 band you like you can follow a trail and end up discovering far more great music than you would by reading the NME or listening to Radio 1.
I despise the corporate music industry and for a while now, I've been making a concerted effort to distance myself from it in every way. I no longer read the music press, listen to music radio or watch music television. If I want an album on a major label I make sure I download it illegally. For free. On the flipside, I do everything I can to find truly innovative music to listen to and wherever possible I buy it direct from the labels (or - even better - the bands) and support real talent at a grass roots level away from the bullsh!t we've all been spoon-fed for so many years by clueless ponytailed p%&*ks in expensive suits who don't know jack f%&king sh!t about real artistic integrity. Myspace makes it easier than ever to cut out the major labels and chainstores and support artists and labels directly.
I know the majors are bound to muscle in at some point and try to take Myspace over and use it as a tool for plugging all their vacuous, inane, bland tripe but in the meantime, vive la revolution!
