1. I dont you from adam, so i'm not going to sit here making assumptions about you beyond what we're discussing.RealityHz wrote:Benga and Burial aren't exactly your average selling Dubstep artists. Or Dance music artists for that matter.
That goes back to the average sales argument I made. You can name the top few labels or producers and use them as examples of the status quo, but they don't represent the general direction of sales do they? The point is that those sales prove that a couple of labels are doing well.
So a bunch of scene kids are buying vinyl. As soon as the next emo goth trend rolls into town they'll be all over it and leave it behind. How long have you worked for a distributor, label or as a touring DJ or producer exactly? You seem to have an interest in proving that sales are up because it validates you as a vinyl collector. But you don't collect indie vinyls I bet, so what does Dubstep have to do with it? It's what you're buying personally. You WOULD defend your position. See, I collect vinyl as well and you'd think we share the same opinion of what is happening. But my need to be right isn't clouding my judgment here. I see the writing on the wall.
So it comes back to what the sale of vinyl has to do with you personally... aside from defending what appears to be a long held snobbish stance, nothing. Yes, what does Dubstep have to do with this. Obviously people are trying to make the argument that vinyl is strong and they are fucking kidding themselves.
I don't need to ask myself shit about my sales because I don't have anything to sell. I don't produce and I don't release records anymore. What you should be asking yourself as a person who never has released a record, is what you even know about it at all.
File sharing is at an all time high. I guess that is why LPs are selling... for all 5 of the labels in Dubstep who released one this year.
2. You don't know anything about me, so don't even play yourself by trying this bait assumption game about me personally. Its fucking irrelevant to the discussion here and frankly shows just how much you know about the state of this scene.
3. Go on and think anything you want about dubstep sales, and the writing on the wall, as you've shown all your cards by posting that RIAA cartoon. Whatever makes you feel better, must be right....right?
if there's more vinyl being bought (regardless of genre), that means there's more plants pressing vinyl, more mastering houses in business, more variety being pressed, more lathe's being used, etc ,etc, etc. More vinyl consumed helps dance music survive a few more years. helps the 12" survive a few more years. How anyone cannot support this is beyond me. it HELPS everyone!
i'm done, and lets get this discussion back to technics, and hyping up heresay....
