Actually, many of the people who participate in these discussions are musicians or are heavily involved in the music industry. Why would you suggest otherwise?
I didn't suggest otherwise, at least not intentionally. I probably oversimplified. (Beer, you know.)
But many of the people who comment here (like the clever fellow who doesn't buy music because he isn't one of those people 'who have nothing better to do than listen to music') do have rather amusing notions about what being a musician consists of.
Seriously, though, despite the snark in my last post, I genuinely find this place interesting. I have never had a chance to hear the views of so many post-CD music fans before, and it's enlightening.
The music industry is a fluke. In all of recorded history, it is only recently that people have been able to make money off of selling copies of songs.
Most of the great art of our civilization was made without anything of the sort. Some of the greatest composers in history: Mahler, Schoenberg, Bartok, Bach; all of them had to do all sorts of things other than 'follow their muse'. They had to teach, or write incidental music, or conduct, or make playing editions of other peoples music. Rare was the composer who did nothing other than compose what they felt like composing all day long. Strangely, their lists of works were much larger than those of most songwriters living today.
If the 'anti-free' crowd were correct, most of the great music of western history would never have been written. Certainly nothing like Bach's 'Art of Fugue' could possibly come to be, as it was never even published.
Talentless musical celebrities are losing money. Oh the humanity!
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I didn't suggest otherwise, at least not intentionally. I probably oversimplified. (Beer, you know.)
But many of the people who comment here (like the clever fellow who doesn't buy music because he isn't one of those people 'who have nothing better to do than listen to music') do have rather amusing notions about what being a musician consists of.
Seriously, though, despite the snark in my last post, I genuinely find this place interesting. I have never had a chance to hear the views of so many post-CD music fans before, and it's enlightening.
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Most of the great art of our civilization was made without anything of the sort. Some of the greatest composers in history: Mahler, Schoenberg, Bartok, Bach; all of them had to do all sorts of things other than 'follow their muse'. They had to teach, or write incidental music, or conduct, or make playing editions of other peoples music. Rare was the composer who did nothing other than compose what they felt like composing all day long. Strangely, their lists of works were much larger than those of most songwriters living today.
If the 'anti-free' crowd were correct, most of the great music of western history would never have been written. Certainly nothing like Bach's 'Art of Fugue' could possibly come to be, as it was never even published.
Talentless musical celebrities are losing money. Oh the humanity!
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