Re: Theaving Goths



> Y'know, I'm really not sure that's true at all. Most of the bands from
> Goth past which are no longer around are no longer around because they
> grew up and settled down or moved on,

And realised that being in a goth band doesnt pay the morgage, and Time
usually doesnt allow for a job and a band, as i Said if many bands made a
living out of gigging and CD sales then they would probaby still be around.

, but is that
> actually because of file-sharing? I doubt it.

I didnt say that I said that file sharing reduces what chance bands have NOW
of selling product.

> but they did that with cassette tapes too (remember "C30 C60 C90"?),

Making mix tapes and sharing amoung a few people is that a few people, where
as someone could upload a whole album ro savefile or rapidshard and 100s can
download it instantally and the redistribute it and unlike cassette tapes it
doesnt take any efford to move it around with no loss in quality, unkile the
copying and re copying of cassettes.

and with video recorders, and neither of those did any harm. And it
> does seem to be the case that when you look at the actual statistics, they
> suggest that file-sharing _doesn't_ harm record sales, and may even boost
> them.

Why then did a single that sold 20,000 singles make it to Number one in
2004, and 'a band i know' sold the same amount of records for 1 single in
1989 and only skirt round the edge of the top 40?

> Personally, I think the reason there are few big goth bands is because
> Goth music is currently unfashionable.

Its ALWAYS been unfashonable, well since the late 80s.


Once upon a time, the Sisters and the Cure
> and the Mission appeared on Top of the Pops. Nowadays, goth bands don't
> get a look-in in the mainstream, and therefore they don't get "big",
> because the goth scene itself is limited in size.

That is very true, and within the Scene we dont have any Big bands and so
return to the topic I posted about a month ago.


Matthew


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