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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jmucchiello" data-source="post: 1059095" data-attributes="member: 813">This is so wrong. Avant garde bands don't get signed to recording contracts with the big 5 because they don't make multimillion selling albums. Record companies want hits and nothing else. 10-15 years ago they discovered they could push the flavor of the month hard and sell one multiplatnum album and then move on to the next artist. When the old flavor goes back into the recording studio to make the followup album, the "Great" producers and studio musician are no longer at their disposal. The marketting department doesn't push their 2nd album. If by some miracle their 2nd album does well, their 3rd album gets even less help from the company. You see, most record deals are 3 albums. If you push an artist hard for 3 albums when it comes time to renegotiate their contract they want the moon. If you don't promote the 2nd and 3rd album, you can drop the artist or stay with the contract that favors the record company for a 4th and possible 5th album. Meanwhile you're still pushing the flavor of the month and getting those multiplatnum albums in your studio.Ever noticed that pop bands of old would have hits for 4-5 years before disappearing, but nowadays bands have 1 year of hits before they are history? This is why record sales are slumping, why avant garde bands have no shot at a decent recording career. It has nothing to do with Napster. In fact, while Napster was online, record companies had some of their all-time highest quarterly sales. They got rid of Napster and now sales are down. Coincidence? I doubt it.And now, to swing back on topic, obviously I like PDFs. Personally, I have a CD-RW that I update with PDFs as I buy/download them. When the CD-RW fills, I cut it to a CD-R and start a new CD-RW. That gives me two backups of the files. (And the files float on my hard drive too.)But then, being a long time computer user/programmer, I know all about catastrophic hard disk failure (been there, seen that) and try to be vigilant with my data. "Try to" being a very telling choose of phrase. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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