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Younger people of Lemmy. Would you buy a CD at a concert? (lemmy.world)

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I'm 40, and when I was a teenager, EVERY band had CDs. And I know a lot of music has shifted to digital. So much so that I heard Best buy stopped selling CDs. Presumably because nobody buys them.

So I wonder what musicians sell besides t-shirts and posters at concerts. Do the kids have ANY CDs? Do they buy mp3's? Do they just use pandora and spotify? Do they even own their own music?

I've given up on trying to understand the lingo. Other generations lingo sounds stupid to me, but still understandable based on context.

I have NO idea what a skibifibi toilet is....sounds like a toilet after some taco bell and untalented jazz, but maybe I can try to understand their thought process on media consumption.

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[-] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago

I mean......it didn't answer my question per se, but it was a great insight into where an industry is, and how they got there.

I saw a 12 minute run time on the video, and thought "I'm not going to watch this whole thing....."

But the man makes great points.

In the 90s, if you played video games, and you played an SNES RPG, those were typically very text heavy, story driven games. The memory on an SNES cartridge was very data limited. So you couldn't have a 9,000 page script. It simply wouldn't fit on the memory allowed.

So developers would write a first draft, and find out they were over limit. So they'd cut it down by 30%. Find out they're STILL over the limit. Cut it down by 5% and NOW it fits. Just barely.

And what you ended up with was a direct, straight to the point story that hits its plot points in a very matter of fact way. You get an oversaterated story that makes sense, and is pure plot. They cut the fat.

What I'm saying here is that limitations are frustrating, and require more effort to work around, but they also breed creativity. And that seems to be the main point this guy is making now with music. Sinatra is dead, his music three quarters of a century old, and still feel timeless. He had barrels of creative limitations, and he overcame them.

Or, not discussed here is Bethoven. I'm not even sure he was ever able to record any of his music himself, but he recorded the sheet music. Which means anytime you hear Bethovens work, you're technically hearing a cover song. Yet despite not having a way to distribute his music, his works are still timeless centuries later.

But this video discussed more about music production from the manufacturers viewpoint. Fascinating stuff for sure, but I'm more interested in knowing from a young consumers viewpoint.

Although, I will admit, his video reminded me of Green Day. Simply because my sister bought me my first CD in 1994. I was 10. It was Green Days Dookie. I can remember listening to that cd over and over and over, studying the box art and booklette, just like this guy said.

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