Slipknot Frontman: Sh*t� Music to Blame for Decreased Music Sales

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Corey Taylor tells Britain's Kerrang! magazine that people aren't willing to "risk their hard-earned money on music that's maybe 98% crap," and that if it wasn't so awful people wouldn't be downloading it for free.

Record labels have long believed that music sales exist in a vacuum disturbed only by illegal file-sharing, and that it is the reason why increased digital music sales haven't been able to offset the decline in physical CD sales.

Slipknot frontman Corey Taylor is one of a number of artists who know the claim isn't true, that there are number of factors at work.

"A lot of people in the industry want to blame downloading for the state of the [music] business," he told Britain's Kerrang! magazine. "But I think if most music wasn't shit to begin with people wouldn't be downloading it for free."

"Seriously – who wants to risk hard-earned money on music that's maybe 98 percent crap? I'm not going to. I still buy new albums, but people ask what my favorite new album is and nine times out of ten I don't have one. Music is garbage."

For many music fans if an artist does muster up quality work it's usually limited to a catchy 99 cents tune on iTunes. Unlike before music fans aren't forced a "take it or leave it" physical album. They can cherry pick what they want, and the difference for record labels has obviously been startling.

Music fans can also hear music they like for free on streaming services like Pandora or Last.fm, a fact alluded to by the RIAA recently.

What do you think about music these days? What percentage of the albums you've downloaded for free do you think you wouldn't have purchased otherwise?

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[davmil]

99% seems a bit exaggerated, but not by much. Unless you're a big city urban teenager --OK, I'm older and biased but the trash on the radio is beyond bad. I won't go on listing all the ways it sucks, but no wonder so few buy it. And watch these jokers try to perform. Better like a staged move or pose because they can't write, sing or act. The proof of the pudding - oldies stations exist in every market playing music that's 20-30 years old. And finally, guess what? I grew up buying albums and don't mind paying for the CDs or performance DVDs of the old groups if I want them, so I'm actually a customer. There's a few interesting acts emerging, but you could put them in a thimble. I wish the labels would let me buy them singularly b/cuz I'd like to have the occasional quality video or concert footage, but just don't see the value in a disk full of crap for one song.

Corey Taylor tells Britain's Kerrang! magazine that people aren't willing to "risk their hard-earned money on music that's maybe 98% crap," and that if it wasn't so awful people wouldn't be downloading it for free.

Record labels have long believed that music sales exist in a vacuum disturbed only by illegal file-sharing, and that it is the reason why increased digital music sales haven't been able to offset the decline in physical CD sales.

Slipknot frontman Corey Taylor is one of a number of artists who know the claim isn't true, that there are number of factors at work.

"A lot of people in the industry want to blame downloading for the state of the [music] business," he told Britain's Kerrang! magazine. "But I think if most music wasn't shit to begin with people wouldn't be downloading it for free."

"Seriously – who wants to risk hard-earned money on music that's maybe 98 percent crap? I'm not going to. I still buy new albums, but people ask what my favorite new album is and nine times out of ten I don't have one. Music is garbage."

For many music fans if an artist does muster up quality work it's usually limited to a catchy 99 cents tune on iTunes. Unlike before music fans aren't forced a "take it or leave it" physical album. They can cherry pick what they want, and the difference for record labels has obviously been startling.

Music fans can also hear music they like for free on streaming services like Pandora or Last.fm, a fact alluded to by the RIAA recently.

What do you think about music these days? What percentage of the albums you've downloaded for free do you think you wouldn't have purchased otherwise?

View: Original Article