The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #24827   Message #286722
Posted By: M.Ted
28-Aug-00 - 04:13 PM
Thread Name: Evil corporate music industry
Subject: RE: Evil corporate music industry
The music industry has tried to destroy this site, and to get rid of this forum--that tells you, in a nutshell, what they are about--they don't market the music that people want--they control the market, so that it is easy for people to buy their products, and difficult to hear or buy anything else.

Even in the adolescent market--the kids in school from grades 5-12, the majority don't necessarily buy, like, or even listen to, the stuff that is "Popular"--however, the companies that are selling NSYNC and the Backstreet Boys and all the rest, control what is played on the radio, what is stocked in the stores, and what is tied in to television programs and movies, so, no matter what people like, the stuff that the "Greedy, Evil, Corporate Music Industry Bastards" are pushing is what is available.

There is a simple rule in marketing, which boils down to the idea that if you plaster the name of your product all over the place, people will buy it--

And if your buy all the music publishers, record distributors, radio and tv stations, and movie studios...well, you know what I mean--