Say you've been loving Lady Gaga's "Alejandro," and your acute powers of perception deliver an impulsive yearning for the song it's loosely based on-"Fernando," by ABBA. So why, I wonder, do we continue to fall for the idea that downloading a torrent of a band's complete discography is going to be in any way rewarding? Like a hundred browser windows filled with beautiful naked women. Like a bathtubful of IPA poured into a beer bong. Today's discussion is the rise in popularity of huge complete-discography torrents, and the simple fact that there can possibly be too much of a good thing. It's a little like the United States providing chemical weapons to Iraq in the 1980s and then fighting against them in the oughts.īut I digress. It was born of the music industry's decision to kill the LP and increase their profit margin 1,000 percent by foisting the digital technology of CDs on music fans, the same technology that eventually made possible the MP3, and the RapidShare files and the torrents that the recording industry hates so much. No, this is none of those things, because illegal downloading is here to stay.
Truth be told, the artists are making up lost revenue in increased concert ticket prices, the record stores are reverting back to the more-popular-than-ever vinyl format, and after years of bloated excess, most everybody concurs that the music industry deserved to be decimated.Nor is this an old-man rant about the ease of illegal downloading, and the valueless clicking that kids these days do, and how in my time we had to walk two miles in the snow to Record Mart only to find that, sorry, the new Depeche Mode album was out of stock, and those crazy ADD-addled youths don't even know what albums are anymore because they're wired up on the YouTube EMusic Facebook Pandora Twitter GorillaVsBear Stereogum sites. THIS ISN'T one of those tired rants about the perils of illegal downloading and how it's bankrupting the artists and killing the record stores and decimating the music industry. VUZED AND ABUSED: Only a fraction of Depeche Mode, please.
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