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Originally Posted by The Porn Nerd
I totally agree. When iTunes first came out I did my best to raise holy hell about reducing the product down to $0.99. It undercut artist development, de-valued the entire product (music) and set in an era like we have today.
But the 'protests' I meant were people marching in the street to stop a war, an unfair economic policy or the reach of Big Government. Music was a soundtrack to those protests so of course it had to be stopped. It was in the corporate interest to do so.
But yes, the biz model changed indeed and now we have all these crappy singles.
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True. There were times when music, especially some songs or artists were very connected to the social and political movements of the country. Like you say, it was the soundtrack of the times. Now, for the most part, it is just a distraction.