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Everything is for sale... including the records the guy at the record store likes. To claim everything else is gamed/astroturfing because of your feeling is pre

• fxtentacle 5y ago
  Except that 10 years ago, the guy at the record store was an unaffected college student and he wouldn't give a rats ass about whether his recommendation would increase or decrease sales. In my opinion, the rise of paid bloggers was what ruined the internet for honest people everywhere.
  • dfxm12 5y ago
    Or he was the owner of the store trying to make a sale, or he was friends with the musicians and trying to make a sale. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Paid bloggers sounds awfully similar to the old payola scheme. It's really nothing new in the music industry...
• wyre 5y ago
  A music blog with affiliate links and ads and SEO is very very different than a conversation with the guy at my local record store. To think they are more similar than different is preposterous.
  • dfxm12 5y ago
    I didn't say they were the same. Just because a blog as ads or affiliate links, that doesn't mean it's astroturfing or gamed. Of course, the ad filled blogs probably got their cue from mags like NME, Rolling Stone, etc.