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Crazy to see that they sold 37 Million albums way back then... It's the absolute hardest thing to get 40 views on music videos posted to a free social media sit
by winternett 3y ago
Crazy to see that they sold 37 Million albums way back then... It's the absolute hardest thing to get 40 views on music videos posted to a free social media site now, despite the entire Internet supposedly being "open to the entire world".
- klysm 3y agoopen and absolutely flooded with garbage
- toyg 3y agoIt's a bit like with cabbage: when it was the only thing people could get, cabbage was extremely popular. Nowadays you can buy any vegetable or fruit, grown anywhere at any time, so it's hard to get people interested in cabbage.
- eyelidlessness 3y agoI don’t know, just reading this comment got me thinking I could really go for some cabbage.
- globular-toast 3y agoI like the analogy, but this kind of suggests there were other Led Zeppelins and the one we know is just the one that happened to be marketed. I find that hard to believe. I think it's more like the cabbages are still there, but now you have to sift through a ton of wild varieties of bitter and tough brassicas yourself.
- toyg 3y agoI would argue that any musician active at the time will know someone who was as good as Led Zeppelin, but never made it because they couldn't get a label contract at the right time. This is particularly true if you include black artists. It's not just marketing - production costs were very high. There is an element of cargo-cultism in the boomer experience, as a result of scarcity and strict gatekeeping that lasted pretty much all the way to the early 2000s.
- akira2501 3y agoLimited bandwidth requires artificial selection methods. In one sense we've gotten rid of the bandwidth issue, but we've not solved the selection issue at all.