Music piracy killed rock music

Music piracy killed rock music.

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No, white crackers stole rock and drove it into the group, black kings created hip-hop and dominated, as they always have done. Now smallcocked whites complain about it

>You WILL give your money to the record industry!

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get offline lars
blacked

and the internet poisoned humanity

Good. Rock music sucks.

>doesn't support rock
>labels stop supporting rock acts because they are unprofitable
>rock dies
>"it must be da joos"

>nobody brings up jews
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Yes. I wish I could go back 20 years. The internet was still new and mysterious and full of promise. It could have been anything, but this is what we got, in the end.

Why didn't it kill other genres?

and that's a good thing

So sad to think that twenty years from the posting on Any Forums will be the most exciting thing you can do nowadays

>pop
Teenage girls and gays were the main public, it evolved into stan culture and poptimism.
>r&b and hip hop
It also dwindled but woke culture gave it a sharp boost.
>country
The people who like country didn't had access to internet and prefer to buy albums
>classical
The most profitable genre for labels since you only have to pay performers the minimum wage.

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who cares about rockstars living in mansions. I'm glad rock is dead. now we can get some real music.

Music outside of streaming isn't profitable. Old rock is the most played music on streaming platforms and makes up something like 70% of sales now. RIAA being shit is what killed music.

Nope.

Record labels killed rock. They stopped signing it over a decade ago. Bands were making plenty of money on the road to offset piracy, and thriving, but when radio, MTV and the labels froze them out, it killed them.

And, rock music isn't dead, it's just not mainstream anymore.

If you think piracy really hurt bands, you don't understand how record contracts work. A musician stupidly signs a contract that their blood, sweat and tears are only wrth a small percentage of sales - the band might get 7-10% after all advances are paid, while the label keeps the rest. Most bands made the bulk of their money live, unless they were a GnR or Foo Fighters that sold millions of albums. But, do the math. If we use Apple Store pricing, if you sell a million dollars worth of albums, you get 100,00 grand, split 4 or 5 ways. The label gets 900,000. If it'sa four ways split, then each band member gets 50k - before taxes. And before giving a percentage to managers, lawyers, accountants, crew, etc. (But then they make a million on the road, split evenly, after expenses, so they can make several hundred grand, before taxes.)
Piracy hurts labels WAY, WAY, WAY more than musicians. Duff McKagen of GnR said a decade ago, nobody makes money off record sales anymore, and that was before streaming took off, which is how most people get music now.

My nigger, you are right but only technically. Crackers took rock to its absolute limit and logical conclusion, and THEN it all went to shit.

Instrument based music was gonna die anyway because producing radio hits with just a laptop is more economic. 25 years from now it'll probably be difficult to even buy a music instrument since manufacturers have had to downscale or close down and the only stuff in circulation is used or broken.

>people only pirate rock music
So why did other genres manage to stay afloat through it all? Rock musicians always made more off touring and merch than off their recordings. Recordings serve as advertisements for shows, and when there is no monetary barrier to listen to the music, wouldn't you get more natural exposure?