Reply #27: The RIAA is wasting its time with this and their desperation shows. [View All]

[teknomanzer]

The RIAA is just a god damn bunch of dinosaurs hopelessly trying to avoid extinction. The don't want to admit that the genie is out of the bottle, and now they will have to change thier business model. The money is all in merchandising and special events not the recordings.

Not to mention that the execs are nothing but a bunch of old guys who believe that image is more important than talent. Thats why mainstream music sucks so much ass right now.

And as far as electronica goes, I really feel that the music industry is deliberately trying to supress the music phenomenon. And its not just because ravers will dance all night and not watch TV. It has more to do with how the music is produced. Music producers no longer need the industries expensive shit studios to make hits that people can groove to. People can create tunes on their home PC studios that sound a shitload better than the drivel produced by the major labels at a fraction of the cost.

Also the genre is very mutable. DJ's and and producers are constantly remixing tunes so that a song can be recongizable only in portions, giving an old tune new life - new groove. This totally goes against the tight fisted control that the record execs like to exercize.

The RIAA needs to shut down free internet distrubution. The more these homespun tunes are distrubuted over the internet, and heard in clubs, at underground parties, and on home PC's the more artists will begin to realize they don't need these old fossils to steal their work and toss them crumbs in return. A producer in Miami could have his work heard in Bristol without a great amount of capital or promotion thanks to peer to peer communications. Word of mouth can be a powerful thing. This is the major reason why peer to peer has to be shut down. Unfortunately for the RIAA, peer to peer is here to stay. Suing a couple hundred people out of millions will not change shit.

BTW the single is back and so is vinyl thanks to raves, DJ's, and electronica. Two decks and a crossfader is all you need, baby.