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Free MP3 Downloads and The Curbing of Touring Bands

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fareed Ahmed

Guess what happens After all by all this. Sit and consider it for a moment: you sat on the couch up late one night, watching E! or a similar channel, and wondering how it was that bands with such huge cult followings have all seemed to disappear. (You were watching that documentary on the Grateful Dead-weren't you?)

Or maybe you're in the boat with those who still do follow some band or other-but we'll talk about you in a moment https://youtube-to-mp4.org/. See, free mp3 downloads have changed the cult way of bands and simply how much people follow them.

Think of how expensive it is for bands to tour with out a major label and the entire weight of the music business machine footing the bill. Let's think of how that reflects in anything else: how expensive have concert tickets become for consumers? It's sort of ridiculous, all made so by free mp3 downloads. It's especially ridiculous in the concert scene once you realize you can get most of the highlights on YouTube for close to nothing. Gone are the times of arriving to the show days early to park your VW bus, camp out, hook up and tune out. Arrived are the times of downloading everything fast and furiously, free mp3 downloads blotting out every other option.

Let's talk specifics. For bands like Phish, Grateful Dead, Blues Traveler, and others, the Internet doesn't make in-person attendance a requirement to be the main scene. Blogs and RSS feeds let people climb right on the bandwagon without anybody sitting on top to toss of the freeloaders. As a result, there is less of a communal vibe generally because of those artificial and virtual communities. Newer music fans aren't as concerned about virtuoso music performances-they don't care if musicians even actually PLAY instruments at all-and, in reality, parody is okay, too.

Free mp3 downloads and other new technology have brought lots of this about. Let's take, like, the fact anybody with a webcam and a Casio is an Internet rock star-I'm thinking about that band (maybe called GO!...?) who made that video that had every one of the band members singing the song on treadmills carrying out a hilarious routine (all extremely well-executed), choreographed by the lead singer's sister. The lead singer's sister! Not a band member-but she was like captain of her senior high school drill team or something. Next thing you knew, they certainly were on the Daily Show and the Colbert Report. Now, granted, it was actually an extremely cute song and the video did basically rock-but it was the visuals that literally sold the band.

So free mp3 downloads and the rest of the Internet have completely changed the face area of what it means to follow a band or to become a music junkie, but there still are those diehards out there who go to the concerts, purchase the t-shirts, get up to mischief in trailers and behind concert halls and on the hills overlooking the venue and everything else-they just aren't too common. Actually, this indicates more and more that the ones who are the hard-core followers of a given group aren't the ones who are old enough to be mixed up in whole music traveler scene anyway. Why?

It's as the bands which have those types of followings are groups such as the Jonas Brothers or soloists like Miley Cyrus-and their followers are thirteen! So maybe it's better to say, then, not that free mp3 downloads have killed the music industry; they've just changed it.

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