Ofc, but what's the difference between that and a movie/album being taken off of store shelves in the 80s?

When Kubrick pulled A Clockwork Orange out of UK theatres, you could only really watch it by pirating it

Same thing with films and music on streaming sites now, except you can replicate that file an infinite number of times, versus then being bound by the number of VHS tapes or DVD-RWs you have

I just don’t like losers. No one wants to buy NAS’s and back up monoliths of media when you can literally just buy it.

lol wow people are somehow upset that brands they grew up on have been slowly destroyed by mass media companies and private equity firms as everything continues to get s***tier, can you believe it?

Brother you aren't reading Sports Illustrated and all the people on this website did was call Pitchfork dogshit for years

Pretending to mourn this s*** is so performative. Mourn Gaza

That's exactly my point bro

Digital is 1000% more efficient for archiving stuff than physical.

My uncle gave me a copy of All Eyez on Me like 10 years ago. That's now scratched to a point where the songs sound chopped and screwed, but the mp3s I ripped still play perfectly

If people are really interested in supporting artists they should be getting stuff off Bandcamp or iTunes anyway

Read the other day that the creator economy will be a 4 billion dollar industry by the year 2027. This suggest to me that power is siphoning off of major conglomerates and back towards the individual creatives. This is part of the reason why streaming numbers in general are dwindling, Theaters are struggling, and music sales are down. People are watching YouTube, reels, and TikTok’s. The future of this industry and the entertainment industry at large will be much more niche I predict and yes, physical media will have a place in that. This change was inevitable all things considered

the celebration was corny too

no one cares about critics on here, yet they were coming out of the floorboards like roaches to s*** on them lol

no one cares about critics on here, but the threads that get the most traction on here typically about newer artists, usually have some sort of Complex/Pitchfork adjacent mention or review attached to their music

they don’t even know what they want on here

literally is crazy

that's fair

i suppose the concern for me is that streaming services being as popular as they are has given them more power wrt the type of media that can be available at any given time.

but that's gradually shifting as well

theyre art pieces, theyre cool, u can have them forever

imagine if ninja got a low taper fade

@slurpjuicepapi

That meme is too good

It’s crashing because human civilization itself is collapsing into a new system

I wouldn’t be surprised if the entertainment industry itself will cease to exist in the next 5-10 years

Ofc, but what's the difference between that and a movie/album being taken off of store shelves in the 80s?

easy, I coulda bought them s***s before they took em off the shelves

You comparing this to Kubrick (who also only did that because it was claimed the movie was responsible for copycat violence over there) is disingenious

And it’s gonna be replaced with what exactly? That’s just an absolutely insane thing to say.

It wasn't available in the UK on VHS at all until the 90s... the distributors had as much power to pull stuff then as they do now. It's not as if you could go online and buy a US version back then either. This also wasn't an isolated incident

I get the point you all are making but it's a streaming vs 'ownership' question, not digital vs physical

It'll be a different story if/when the iTunes store shuts and things are 100% streaming, but that's not the case atm

It will be replaced with the content creation industry and influencers will be the new celebrities

People are realizing how corporate the Entertainment industry is so they’re slowly moving away from consuming it. Plus the quality has dropped significantly in the past 10 years

yeah this is definitely a present issue

thing is, i think the avg consumer isn't likely to care bc they're not interested in the music this could affect

the people who would care (the type of people who are on KTT / musictwt / RYM) know where to find stuff if they want to

how that impacts discoverability for smaller artists is a hugeee problem though fs. but again that's what those platforms I mentioned are for

Tik Tok is the new Hollywood?