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This may sound like a conspiracy but I think the industry wants people to buy new content not enjoy the hits from yesteryear.
by WeylandYutani 4y ago
This may sound like a conspiracy but I think the industry wants people to buy new content not enjoy the hits from yesteryear.
- stinkytaco 4y agoI think they want you to rebuy old content in new forms, pure profit. Or better yet, rent it in perpetuity.
- jwagenet 4y agoThis is more or less what the entire entertainment industry is doing with endless reboots, sequels, remasters, new formats, etc.
- rockemsockem 4y agoThere was some study I saw, maybe even released by Spotify, that showed that a massive percentage (maybe a majority?) of streamed music was several decades old. So they're raking in cash from rent seeking really. It would be healthier for music if what you said was true though.
- azinman2 4y agoThis makes sense. People largely listen to whatever was new/popular in their childhood through 20s.
- ghaff 4y agoSome people are more musically adventurous than others or they sometimes latch onto a new genre or artist. But the reality is that most of us largely default to what we listened to in school or maybe the decade after. I know I listen to relatively little music created in the past 20 years and don't really care if a streaming service is missing XYZ newish artist. I actually have quite a large, somewhat curated digital music library and, with a few hundred dollars and a few days of effort, I could probably patch any particular holes I have among songs/albums I especially enjoy, but mostly I use streaming including a lot of curated playlists.