Radiohead Frontman Predicts Imminent Demise of Record Industry

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via Truthdig:



Radiohead Frontman Predicts Imminent Demise of Record Industry
Posted on Jun 9, 2010


You’re on notice, music industry: Thom Yorke can see the end from here.

If his music is any indication, Thom Yorke’s not exactly possessed of the most optimistic mind-set, but the Radiohead singer may be onto something when he says that the record industry as we know it is about to implode. The Atlantic Wire does some reality-testing on this thesis in a Wednesday dispatch. —KA

The Atlantic Wire:

When Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke expresses an opinion about the music industry, it’s worth listening. His band, after all, pioneered the “pay what you want” model for major artists selling music online (a model that has since spread to the masses on sites like Bandcamp.com). So when he told an interviewer that the record industry was going to “completely fold” in the coming months, people took note.

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[Violet_Crumble]

1. I wouldn't be sad to see the end of the major labels n/t

[Scurrilous]

2. K & R

:thumbsup:

[The Midway Rebel]

3. Safe bet.

And good riddance.

SUPPORT LIVE AND LOCAL MUSIC!

[RockaFowler]

4. I'm sick of Corporate Music

Everything is American Idol Manufactured Crap. I can't even listen to the Top 40 stations anymore. It's the same song over and over again. I'll stick to the 60's and 70's or Deep Tracks stations on XM

[reggie the dog]

8. you find lots of good new acts on university radio stations

quite often dj's playing bands of their friends and the like

[Triana]

5. Awww Poor $ony. And Michael Jackson can't die again. n/t

[Swede]

6. Remember $24 for cds not that long ago?

They had us by the short ones,now they are dying.

[leeroysphitz]

7. I think they saw the writing on the wall back in the 90s and decided to make as much as they could

while they could. I remember the big music chains selling 24 dollar cds while poor starving Garth Brooks cried and cried about not getting his cut of USED cd sales.

I'll be glad to finally see the end of these labels. There will always be people who want to create and preform music and there will always be people who want to hear it. The labels only represent an outmoded distribution system.

[Swede]

9. When the middlemen make the big bucks,call the shots etc

that is not good for anyone. The internet is the way of the future.

[Subdivisions]

10. As Nick Neyland at Prefix Magazine asks: 'What is the solution?' n/t

[NM_hemilover]

11. Horselips -/- Michelle Schocked -/- PFM check em out ;) nt