During a recent interview with Double J, Tool singer Maynard James Keenan opened up about the changes within the music industry. According to him, modern music fans “aren’t really valuing the work that goes into putting together an actual collection of songs on an album.”
Keenan said the following:
“I mean everything [has changed.] Quite a bit’s changed. There used to be record labels. Now there’s like 2 left out of 500. People were willing to buy music. And there a sense, when you’re living in a small town — like I was — that there’s this work being done at the abandoned warehouse, where you’re plugging in, and almost electrocuting yourself because the wiring was faulty, and there’s rats everywhere, and like you’re in there gonna just truck, you just needed to make music.
And you’re kind of developing this thing, and play small clubs, and eventually you put together a vinyl and people pay for it… It was a long game, now it’s so immediate, and people are so used to getting free shipping on your Amazon packages and it comes… You order it today, but it came yesterday. That’s how fast people want it. So it’s hard. I think it’s changed to the point where people aren’t really valuing the work that goes into putting together an actual collection of songs on an album.
They cut corners. Touring is more difficult, because things are expensive. So it’s hard for a young band to crack that nut, to really get out there and have people learn about them, because that’s the best way to do it, is in front of people, right? And that’s, that’s how you make your living is touring now. It’s not the album sales, those are gone.”
[via The PRP]
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