General Music Chat

Not sure what if anything it says about you other than you don't buy albums. I think the majority of the people here don't. And that's too bad, because if you don't support the industry you are helping to doom it. Yes it's a changing world and people don't buy albums anymore, yada yada yada. But I still like the album format, where an artist releases a collection of songs from a certain time period. I can look back years later and remember what was going on just by listening to an album. A single just doesn't have that impact.

I think that you are paying as much attention to the music industry as the rest of the world...
Yes, albums are still being released...but no one is buying.

Case in point: I just bought the new KISS album (I know that's a contradiction to what I just said, but bear with me). Instead of simply being a collection of new material, the package includes a sort of Greatest Hits collection and a poorly made live video (I love KISS, really, but after watching all SIX songs on the DVD, I felt screwed).

Why did they slam all this stuff together in one nifty $15 pack? Because they are trying anything to get people to buy it.
Are Paul Stanley and Gene Simmons that desperate for money? Naw. However, making money is, of course, the name of the game, and they know that in this day and age, a new KISS album simply isn't going to sell...
I had a point, but I don't know if I made it...

It scares me that you said Album
Depends if you live in a ice-cube?

Trouble is its hard to get back into the know of things without being hit by the media which sidetracks you.

Whether people are buying CD's Albums Or the old EP it really doesn't matter because we are digital and I for one know that you know this.

Stop teasing us.

There was something magical about buying albums back in the day. The package was so much bigger, lots of cool band pics, some had posters inside. Remember the poster of all those naked chicks riding bicycles in the Queen album Jazz? ANd then of course it's kind of hard to download a vinyl album. A finicky friend of mine used to clean his albums before he played them. There's been a resurgence of interest in vinyl lately. I hope it leads to the industry producing vinyl albums again. I say screw the CD's. If I had a choice to record a real vinyl record I wouldn't even think of recording a CD....

I don't buy albums anymore. I haven't heard more than a single song from any recent act that would prompt me to check into them further. Part of this is the fault of the record co's, who don't promote anymore. Part of it is my fault, or possibly just an overall lack of interest.

The question to me is: are you still listening to new music?

Because album buying doesn't necessarily mean you are or are not. I buy a lot of albums off iTunes. So I don't get the CD (although I try and buy the CD if it's something I think I'm going to listen to for years to come).


I went through a period where I didn't really buy albums for about a decade. I got locked into progressive rock and basically that was all I bought, and that stuff doesn't get radio play. But in the past couple of years I've started listening to a lot more variety. My tastes have expanded exponentially. Now you can find Imogen Heap right along side Dream Theater in my collection. You can find Stars right next to Creed, Noush Skaugen right next to Alter Bridge...

There's a world of really good music still being made - you just have to listen to multiple sources to get exposed to it.

And if you find something you like, BUY IT. It doesn't matter whether you buy and album or buy it off iTunes, but BUY IT. Don't pirate it. Support the musicians who made it or our industry will die.

I certainly don't buy as many as I used to back in the day. At one time I bought at least one album every week. I find myself buying mostly music DVDs and local band's Cds these days.

Buy a new car!
I hear it helps and those that do feel whelps later.

I'm listening to everything that is posted online. I make that MY DAY. Some really good stuff out there, (thanks JW). Anyway.

You are as old as you feel and dead a long time.
I suggest Lime juice!

I've lost interest too Phil. Not in music, just in chasing what everybody else is doing. The only way I hear new stuff, it has to invade my little bubble and hit me over the head. Then, I have to like it. By the time that happens these days, it's not new anymore.

New to me is Nickelback, Foo Fighers, and a few others.

Maybe all it means is I'm just getting old!

Concerning contemporary music buying trends ,
consider this,
Back in the 60's when I was feeding my hunger for new music, I delighted in buying fresh vinyl.
I would often take a chance on records that I never heard or even heard of on the basis of the cover art!.
Once you took an album home and popped the shrink wrap, you were literally at the point of no return.

Two examples of records that I have loved for nearly the last half century are The Incredible String band's "The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter" and the first Osibisa album. In both cases, I hated then upon first listen, but , since I invested hard cash in them , continued to play them anyway and they turned out to be perenial favorites and broadened my musical horizons!
Now, the point is, do you suppose I would have ever bought them in the first place if I head them first?

Just a thought,
Howlin'

I've not purchased any music in quite some time. My wife does occasionally but a lot of it the same ol same ol. Hell I would not listen to it anyway.
The electronic age of musical entertainment is here to stay. Albums CD,s pretty much anything you have to physically handle is on on its way out with the general public. Kids to spoiled or just to lazy to even dial a phone or type on the computer.
Evolution, grow with the flow or go extinct.