No, you don't really understand where I'm coming from. It has nothing to do with suffering artists. Nothing to do with fairness. It's about the effect
on the consumer of the new entertainment paradigm.
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Originally Posted by polak
Trust me, I come from an EDM production background and nowadays in EDM, your "demo" better be ready to play on the radio as is when you send it to the label or unless you're sitting on some unreal track that is a sure fire hit with the right support, you can forget about it getting anything more than "needs more work" from the label (if you're really lucky, probably just get ignored). That means every kid who starts messing around with music these days will most likely also have to learn the production side of things. No one is forcing them to pursue a career in music.
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If I snapped my fingers and made every song or CD in your collection from an artist who wasn't skilled at arranging (or promotion) disappear, I'm fairly certain it would leave a pretty big hole.
Consumers will suffer under the new model too. It's market fundamentals: as the value of a product declines, the resources that go into its production will decline. Fewer skilled people will work in entertainment in the future. That will affect the end product.