http://clicknoise.net/complementary-media-and-the-online-music-ghetto/ Musings about music, technology, mobility, and culture, by Jean Hebert. Mon, 19 Mar 2012 22:56:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://clicknoise.net/complementary-media-and-the-online-music-ghetto/comment-page-1/#comment-2103 Clicknoise » Other Independents Thu, 01 Mar 2007 14:12:54 +0000 http://clicknoise.net/complementary-media-and-the-online-music-ghetto/#comment-2103 [...] Putting the well-known fate of former music retail giant Tower Records aside), the indie shop casualties are significant in their own right, and the pattern of retail concentration is consistent with a trend I’ve identified previously: the ghettoization of online music. Anyone clamoring for Police tickets will appreciate the mounting costs of music performance in face to face environments, and those costs are best recouped by companies with expanded capital, large artist rosters, and better tolerance for financial risk. [...] [...] Putting the well-known fate of former music retail giant Tower Records aside), the indie shop casualties are significant in their own right, and the pattern of retail concentration is consistent with a trend I’ve identified previously: the ghettoization of online music. Anyone clamoring for Police tickets will appreciate the mounting costs of music performance in face to face environments, and those costs are best recouped by companies with expanded capital, large artist rosters, and better tolerance for financial risk. [...]

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