Thursday, May 31, 2007

Music trends and the music industry

Years ago the art and packaging of albums was a big part of marketing an album. Good album art could catch your eye and maybe you might buy it because something about the cover appealed to you. Now music can be downloaded making the need for album art slightly less important then when everyone had to buy a physical album or cd. Now ordering cd's can be done online which means less trips to the record store. It seems like many record stores have had to branch out and sell other items in addition to music items just to make a living. Another change is Myspace and how it relates to new music. Many bands now have Myspace pages and many of them have music for you to hear and or download. This probably dimishes the importance of demotapes that bands use to make. It also relies more on word of motuh to spread news of bands and I think that does happen. So even though music itself may be similar as it has always been; marketing, buying and listening formats have probably changed more in the last five years than in the previous fifteen years.

Changes

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Learning or doing something is always a challenge, but I guess I try to take it steps and just work through new tasks.

Here I go

Okay, I have gotten this far at 23 things. I have created my blog and have started posting. I am looking forward to learning new technology and figuring things out.

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