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Are Low Music Sales Simply Due To Bad Music? – hypebot

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Are Low Music Sales Simply Due To Bad Music? – hypebot.

That’s been my guess for A LONG time. A LOT of bad music, empty of innovation and creative spark, filled with studio enhancement tricks to make talentless singers sound adequate, being shoved down our throats by the major labels, who then turn around and blame the bands and their fans for the piracy that is OBVIOUSLY killing music sales…

How about this…Indie Artists are producing and publishing volumes of great music everyday, and people are spending their consumer dollars ELSEWHERE. Yes, that’s right Sony, people are choosing to buy REAL MUSIC directly from REAL MUSICIANS and artist friendly music services, and it’s cutting into your sales and profits.

Like they say on Shark Tank…if you’re selling a crappy product, your sales are going to suck. OK, they don’t actually say that, but tell me it isn’t true?

Maybe if the record labels stop exploiting artists and fans, and start finding new, innovative, and inspired acts that are creating new and imaginative art, they can get back on track. Or, they can keep doing what they’re doing…exploiting crap for profit while shunning any semblance of true inspiration, and carving thier niche in history with the dinosaurs and 8 track tape decks in the car.

Anyhoo, check out the article that I sorta read before going off on this rant. Are Low Music Sales Simply Due To Bad Music?

11 Ways To Be A Happier Musician Person

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11 Ways To Be A Happier Musician Person | Music Think Tank

The road to success is long, brutal, and relentless – it’s not for the faint of heary or for the negative nancies of the world. It is for the go-getters, the hard workers, the over-achievers – the musicians who never give up. Nothing worth having comes easy, but the journey from start to finish can be drastically altered by one word alone: Attitude. 

…Being an artist can be a hard life, but it doesn’t have to be. If you are mindful of what’s going on with you and the world around you…

Source: http://www.musicthinktank.com/blog/11-ways-to-be-a-happier-musician-person.html

Fuck the police! – Photo

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I don’t know much about this photo…but I know this:

This is NOT Ferguson, MO because if it was, he’d be in jail or dead.

 

Source: ¡ LA CUOTA ! • mlktoscl: Fuck the police!.

9 Mistakes Musicians Make On Twitter

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Learning a few rules will help musician get…and keep…relevant followers on twitter and facebook

I’ve made a few of the “9 Mistakes Musicians Make On Twitter”. I’m sure I’m not alone.

Social networking can be hard. But it’s also an amazing way to find new listeners for your music and interact with new fans and old…or piss people off because you don’t know what the hell you’re doing. Learning a few rules will help you get…and keep…relevant followers, and the answers are all pretty much common sense.

Well, they should be. But let’s face it, most of us would rather play music than screw around with Twitter and Facebook trying to find new fans. But learning how to use these networks…and the plethora of other social web tools out there…can turn small amounts of effort into big results.

IF you’re careful not to break a few simple rules, you can avoid finding yourself shunned and alone with the spammers and phishermen.

9 Mistakes Musicians Make On Twitter | Digital Music NewsDigital Music News.