Bad Religion on Music Downloads 2008-06-26 by Trey STAFF | 9 Comments | In an interview with Rolling Stone Magazine guitarist Brett Gurewitz and vocalist Greg Graffin discussed the re-issue of their latest album "New Maps of Hell" and explained the reasoning behind it.
On the topic of the re-issue, Brett had this to say:
We did on this one because it was to create some value in a CD. Music is so widely available now " even though Greg says his son loves CDs, I"ve found that most kids I know don"t want a CD even if you give it to them for free. They love the music, but they just want to get it on their iPod. They don"t care much for silver circles. Really what it"s about is: here is the CD, but here"s some really nice artistic content you can have. It"s not just a cheap piece of plastic. There"s some posters, you got all the lyrics, you"ve got a DVD which is beautifully shot with seven cameras of the set we did when first releasing the album. It"s a new paradigm. I don"t know exactly what"s happening with the music industry, but it may be that the album format itself is dying, or maybe that the album format isn"t dying but the CD is dying with nothing to replace it yet.
When talking about releasing physical albums the topic inevitably turns to illegal file sharing, but the guys in Bad Religion aren't worried at all, in fact Brett (who owns Epitaph Records) takes a pretty positive view about what is going on right now.
On how illegal file sharing may affect his record label:
I"m not worried in the slightest. I think the music industry is about to enter into a golden age. It"s wonderful. I don"t think record companies need to sell CDs. Major labels need something cheap that they can sell bulk of, or they"re going to go under. Small companies like myself, that kind of evolved to be the cockroaches in the music industry, to survive on meager sustenance? We"re going to be fine. We"re the ones who will be left when the whole thing craters. Music consumption is up. It"s CD sales that are down. Record stores are going out of business. I"m not concerned because I"m a huge music fan, and I see the explosion of genres and artists and records and tracks and new concepts and mashups is so fascinating and wonderful and kaleidoscopic."
Another interesting fact that Brett brought up about CD buying was this:
Virgin Records did an interesting study where they brought in a bunch of kids for a focus group. They had them listen to music: What song do you like better? Which song is catchier? Thanks you very much for giving us three hours, and as a reward, you can have any of our new CDs, and they didn"t want any of them.
For the entire interview:
http://www.epitaph.com/news/news/3094/Bad_Religion_Interview_at_Rollingstonecom
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You should probably try summarizing the article rather than copying and pasting an entire interview.
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Got it... working on it now.
Edit: DoneThis Message Edited On 06.26.08
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Personally, I feel similar to him. File sharing gets smaller genres to a biggest audience, like look at sigur ros. Their new album is being advertised in the like best buy paper. I had to get mine copies of their albums from smaller local record stores because chains did not carry their music. All my friends downloaded their albums.
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I really don't think CDs are going out of style for a long time. I enjoy owning physical media and I think downloading is just for the die hards and elitists who have a grudge against owning a CD.
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Die hards and elitists tend to be the ones who live and die by physical media.
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I don't have a grudge against owning a cd, its just easier to have it on my iPod. I have like 110 gigs of music and if they were all cds I would need a freakin Suburban just to tote them all around.
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Dimmu Burger - Exactly. It's the convenience of having it on my music player rather than me preferring individual songs over full albums. In fact, I'd rather have the full album...but I like having all of them on my Zune than in a c.d. case.
Heh heh...Virgin Records couldn't even GIVE their c.d.'s away. Wonder if that'll serve as a wake up call?
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Good on 'em! Bad Religion care for the fans, not for the money or fame.
*cough cough* metallica!
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ehhh, personally, i don't mind people filesharing a few songs. but overall, just like how i never use itunes, imo, file sharing seems to make the music just seem more disposable.
imo, if you ever download music from an artist, please make sure it's some really big artist who doesn't really make money from record sales anyway.
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