Music Industry and Pay Websites

Music Industry and Pay Websites.

Frankly the idiots at the top of the music companies deserve the ankle biting they are getting from the average music listener. The average music listener is tired of the stupidity of the system. Tired of the over the top prices. Tired of the constant barrage of irrelevant, un-intelligent, bubble-gum chewing, anorexic children that are paraded out in front in the guise of musicians. It’s true that the teenage masses need their Brittany, but come on! It’s sick, this dull meaningless drivel that they burn into our radios during the day. And they actually believe that we like it! No, it’s crap, and most of us know it.

But let’s back up, god knows I might actually be explaining something to someone that doesn’t know what I’m talking about. Here in the US of fucking A, we have musicians, everything from simple banjo playing to monstrous electric music that no one can even begin to understand. We love our music, not because we actually like what these morons mostly scream about, but because, we idolize them. Sometimes, sure a great band or singer comes along that people can relate to, but the rareness of this occurrence renders the argument for it moot. What instead happens, is the obvious, the record companies need to make more and more money. That means, that they don’t have time to search for real talent (Besides the fact that real talent often doesn’t have social appeal) they create talent. They hire songwriters, make up artists, speechwriters, fashion consultants, pr firms, advertising agencies, and on and on it goes. They build this giant machine, this money hunger monster that spits out one hit wonder after one hit wonder. It’s like a huge conveyer belt and the crap just gets piled on until we end up with Shakira, or Brittany, or Cristina or some other facsimile of them. These monstrosities head out into the world and eat up all the 13 year old girls and boys they can, thus destroying the wallet of many adult. Now here’s the kicker. The artist (and I use that loosely) is just another wheel in the machine. Instead of being treated like talent. Treated fairly, treated like their work matters, they instead are tricked into lengthy contracts that yield little if no real return. The record companies don’t give a shit about the very life blood of their industry. Instead it all falls back down to that simple primitive necessity: greed for the green.
For example: I own my own plumbing business, only I don’t have the proper “TOOLS” to do the job, so I get in touch with a plumbing tool provider and they say that they are willing to sign a contract with me for the use of their already made tools. They tell me that they will let me use the tools at their disposal for the following contracted options:

That the contract will last for 5 years.

During the length of this contract I guarantee to use their TOOLS 3 times.

That all income from my work (related to the use of tools or not) will be directly accounted for by the TOOLS owner. (In other words all my money will go to the plumbing tool provider)

For the use of the tools and you will get a 10% NET return of all moneys that you generated.
Would anyone sign such a contract? Not anyone with a single brain cell between their ears. But this is a standard contract offered by the record companies! Bands work FOR record companies, not the other way around.

But it’s okay, because Napster saved the f*ing day for us. It changed the way music was appreciated, that’s right APPRECIATED! Assholes like Lars Ulrich, from Metallica, hated it, because the poor sad rich millionaire didn’t like the idea that his loyal and loving fans could get their music for free. I understand that Lars has an ever widening pie hole of his own that requires feeding. I understand that we all need to make money to survive, but what Lars doesn’t seem to get is that we the people of this country are tired of the over pricing, we’re tired of buying an album full of worthless fodder just so we can hear track one over and over again. We’re tired of the BS the record companies pull on both the public and the musicians. We’re tired and when we get tired we don’t stand up and yell about it, instead we ignore it and find ways of getting what we want. Thus the P2P world of on-line sharing.

The idea of pay websites is too little to late.

If the record industry falls down, that’s a good thing. Let it all burn.

But it won’t. Instead they’ll start suing the little guy for ‘stealing’ music. They’ll stab the fans. They’ll kill the lovers of music…which will leave us with only the stupid teenage masses, whom are too lost, too empty, too worthless to ever think about fighting the system. I hope I take something heavy to the skull before that society is the only thing left.