great

[hogface]

Just found Symphony X on spotify, darn this group is good !
keep up the awesome music !

 

[_Gentleman of_the Snow_]

I'm 12 years old and what is this?

 

[Postulate]

Yeah, p. good, apparently this it's the old band of Adrenaline Mob's singer. Old music is corny but good, lol.

 

[Sauna]

You people are mean.

 

[Progbass]

Yeah, p. good, apparently this it's the old band of Adrenaline Mob's singer.

Yeah, he is good...I also heard him sing in their Iconoclast album, but didnt really like the older albums.

 

[Marwen]

spotify?

 

[Wander]

Music streaming program, legal. Limited free listening. Monthly fee for limitless listening without ads.

 

[Marwen]

What year is this? I don't like it.

 

[RuRoRul]

People like you that like the music are what's killing this band.

 

[Sauna]

spotify?

The vision: An innovative new way to get the masses to pay for their music again, to save the crumbling music industry and to restore a sensible level of sales income to artists.

The reality: A way for people to delude themselves into thinking they're not stealing music even though they basically are. A solo artist needs more than four millions listens on Spotify every month to make the U.S. minimum wage.

http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/2010/how-much-do-music-artists-earn-online/

 

[Marwen]

^Couldn't have said it better myself.

 

[Wander]

I think it's actually fair enough in a way. People can these days listen to anything on youtube anyway. There sure are problems tho... I actually have and use spotify, but even if I use it to listen through new albums, I buy the good shit for real anyway.

 

[Detective Clarence Beauregard]

Programs like that are one of the many reasons most artists make the majority of their money from touring. It sucks, but it's almost impossible to be an album-only band (like Symphony X was for years) since they're making next to nothing from it. Now it seems bands have to tour constantly just to make a living.

 

[LavagesOfTime]

I think metal bands who have some kind of "success" can always count on a devoted fan base who will always buy the cds. To me it happens with very few bands now, but for those I can 100% trust that the cd I'm gonna buy would not disappoint me - ok, Iconoclast actually was close to that, indeed
So this is why more and more bands release special/enhanced/limited editions of their albums: their devoted fans will go for them, instead of the standard editions (for example I think I have the standard edition of V only, mainly because there was no limited edition). Most of them may download the album before buying, but then end up going of the physical disc, especially if it's a marvellous package as it was Paradise Lost.

What changed is that the occasional listener would download it, go to spotify, etc., istead of buying it.