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Originally Posted by Stackabones
Depends on your crowd ... if they are over 35, maybe. Under 35, no way.
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or if they're under 17... i bought so many cds at local shows and had the band sign them right there when i was growing up.
CDs still need to be made, if only as everyone's saying, to sell at shows, or for the die hard fans that demand a physical copy with album artwork. Also, for the audiophiles out there that demand the uncompressed copy. Then again, this last one assumes that your production is up to snuff and merits an uncompressed rendering.
But I really wanted to respond to above who was talking about how a band shouldn't have to record and put their own stuff out there. That just HAD to be trolling sarcasm, I wouldn't think that anyone could be serious about that, especially given the abysmal state of the "music industry" at the moment on all fronts, but especially anything you'll see on mtv, vh1, bet, and cmt or hear on the radio, if anyone listens to radio anymore.
The CD isn't dead, but the big CD sales driving the marketing for a band and getting the word out there is dead. We've moved far beyond "hey listen to this cd!," it's a simple link to a myspace, blog, youtube video, etc. the future is independent bands bending genres, innovating, and amassing fanbases however they can. it just so happens that the internet is the fastest and most effective way to market yourself these days and the result is thousands of bands, all of which could become overnight hits if they get picked up by the right blog. Further, everyone including big acts are moving away from "deals" and paying for their own recording fees, look at what Radiohead or NIN did with their latest albums. Hopefully all the money the greedy RIAA punks are losing to illegal downloading will serve as a reality check, that their way of doing business, of degrading music to another extension of the mass produced market isn't going to work because people want music and they won't just take it lying down.