Posted by
Truthseer on Thursday, March 27, 2008 7:00:00 PM
From the very first album I purchased, the Beatle's vinyl White album, I have been listening to music ever since. I believe I have an ear for good music; speaking only for myself. To quantify “good” I don’t mean that all music is good for listening. Good music for listening moves the soul. There is something about good music that reaches inward and moves the soul to reflect. As far back as I can remember I was drawn to music just because of its emotional affect on me. I tried learning to play musical instruments, guitar and piano, but never could develop a satisfactory ability.
Even though I started listening to rock ‘n roll I have been yearning and searching for different genre of music for the pleasure of listening. Not to replace rock ‘n roll, but to expand my collection. From the mid to late 1960s I followed rock ‘n roll to a new genre of rock called new wave. It moved on the scene in the late 1970s then migrated into the early 1980s. For those who don’t know what new wave bands were, they presented themselves as an evolvement, or morphing, of rock ‘n roll. I then discovered new age instrumental, which I consider it being neo-classical.
The first album I found of this new age genre of music was “The Waiting” by Peter Buffett in the late 1990s. He recorded his music on the disk label Narada in 1987. Narada produced compilation albums that were really never heard years before I discovered this flavor of music. If the idea of compilation albums were utilized when I first started listening to music there would have been single tracks from the Beatles, Rolling Stones, Neil Young, and Spirit all on one album. This way musical artists and groups would have an alternative avenue, other than radio, to advertise there music.
My argument here is trying to accomplish the point that, at least here in America, the exposure of music of all kinds is not available for individuals like myself to explore. I base this argument on the fact that I can go to any music store and find only a tiny fraction of the music I have found on the Internet. It is striking that the wide variety of music is not channeled to potential customers correctly.
The reason for what is happening in the American music industry, in the past and today, is that the American businesses that are in charge of controlling the music proliferation are profiting at the expense of variety. Instead of the ability of buying a compilation album from recording label companies, possibly at a cheaper price for experimenting in the music genres, customers are forced, through tight controls of low proliferation, to buy full albums of single music artists for more money, in return the customer is getting less in value. How many of those who bought an album and found that only one song of 10 or 12 was worth listening.
The music industry of America and its tight controls of proliferation is, in a large part, the culprit for the CD piracy in the black market. The reason for any black market to be in existence is because of the demand that normal business channels are not exploring. Can anyone say "Napster?" When those who want another avenue for music to proliferate, and the music industry does not follow that demand, there will be those that migrate to the black market to satisfy that demand. It is sad to say I have satisfied my collecting of music only by searching the Usenet News Groups, which I have found to be gigantic in size than the music industry. The music industry is loosing profits by ignoring the demand.