Did millennials kill the music industry?

>>126859928 (OP)
I'm a millennial and can confirm. I have all the Metallica discography in pristine .FLAC with their respective accurip text files.

>>126859928 (OP)
iTunes was more than successful at generating adequate revenue for the music industry despite piracy. The advent of streaming ONLY happened because of a push among tech companies to collect more and more data on consumers for marketing and surveillance related purposes.

doesn't matter, i was born after metallica and i would still go to their shows (which sell out fucking quick btw).

We still made them famous, and there are other ways of making money other than selling CD's.

>>126859928 (OP)
Written by a geriatric who thinks young people are millennials

>>126859928 (OP)

Piracy kept it alive for longer than it should have. Streaming was its death knell

>>126859928 (OP)
Metallica are cringe af if we're being honest I'd rather listen to Kreator and Testament.

thats like an artist complaining someone is taking a photo of their art and posting it online for everyone to see.

>>126860062

I should add, ironically digital revitalized their careers by introducing them to a new generation. They lost a lot of political capital with the old geads

>>126859928 (OP)
ADD IT TO THE BOOMER SEETHE BOARD

>>126860046
okay but is he wrong tho?

Napster was invented by Gen X

>>126859928 (OP)
The music industry =/= music
The music industry need not be mourned. If milennials killed it, that's a credit to them

>>126859928 (OP)
no, greed and hubris did, and then streaming desecrated what was left of the corpse

>(Enter generation here) sucks because (enter grievance here)
Low IQ engagement slop argument every time.

Didnt tape trading (80s piracy) have a big impact in their rise to fame?

>>126859928 (OP)
Yes but also IP law is bullshit, you can't steal a song. When I make a digital copy of your song you still have it, you have lost nothing. These musicians just want the government to use force civilians to not use new technology to our benefit.
All music now is just coporate puppets aimed at women and homosexuals to fuel their need to stalk and gossip.

>>126859928 (OP)
if only the music industry had actually died. there would be zero (0) downsides if it had completely collapsed and been replaced with people who have day jobs and upload their music purely for the love of it and get what revenue they can from cheap merch/shows and bandcamp donations

>>126859928 (OP)
No, Lars saved it.

>>126859928 (OP)
>$18 for a Metallica CD
Yikes!

>>126859928 (OP)
i can't wait until every last boomer is dead and rotting

>>126860046
always makes me chuckle when demented boomers complain about millennials when millennials are almost 40 with families and careers and stuff

>>126860799
So you can be homeless?

>>126859928 (OP)
The music industry has never been worth saving. It's filled with greedy corporate cunts and always has been.

>>126860808
>millennials have families
a lot of them are either divorced or eternal virgins, the same fate of gen z

>>126860369
Trust me, the irony isn't lost on anyone who knows them.

>>126859928 (OP)
I have a Metallica vinyl Bootleg from 1986 so destroying Metallica's business is a tradition handed down to us millenials from previous generations

>>126859928 (OP)
Technology killed the industry.
Who cares anyway, there's no future in music and film or anything art.

>>126859928 (OP)
God i hate boomers, literally the generation who destroyed everything. There has never been a more greedy and weak generation. Boomers are the human incarnation of Saturn Devouring His Son. Some kind of hungering beast just devouring all their children and their country to feel good about themselves, then some clint eastwood directed slop comes on and tells you how moral it is to betray your own children and even their hideous betrayal is framed as virtuous (you just weren't good enough).

Please think of Metallica, they aren't rich enough. They're barely getting by. Every time you steal a song you're basically putting them out on the street. You should be thankful to pay 40 bucks for a stamped piece of plastic that cost 5c. You can't afford anything and your country is changed forever but Hetfield missed out on another tacky restomod of some t-bucket because you pirated Garage Inc in 1998, you're really a traitor.

>>126862304
Related
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7txygGSM4OY&ab_channel=ErikCruze

>>126862304
Based, but Eastwood is not a boomer though.

>>126862487
>95 years old
holy shit. i don't even know what generation that is, silent i guess

>>126860025
>i was born after metallica
>We still made them famous
You are insufferable.

>>126859928 (OP)
the technological window closed with the internet, would the specific generation of kids at the time have made any difference

i have come around the the view that metallica was right
you don't need this much music
music should not be cheap
stealing music should be harder
spotify needs to be destroyed

the music industry killed millenials

>>126862689
nothing stops you from listening to less music

>>126859928 (OP)
boomer Steve Jobs tried to kill it (by killing the album format) and then millennial Daniel Ek saved it

>>126862898
overconsumption is not the problem
it's the access to the near infinite catalogue
people feel entitled to access that catalogue now for little to no money, like it's some sort of perverse human right
it is not

>>126863090
how does it affect you?

>>126863137
it has fundamentally changed the economics and culture of music
the scope of produced music shrunk because it could not be performed live
people who did not want to perform live were effectively shut out from pursuing music as career outside of very narrow commercial applications
in the present situation albums like loveless and laughing stock can never happen
it has deprived me of good, new, music
it is a rot at the very core of culture
it's why people like you exist and need to be lined up against a wall and shot