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The bulk of the record industries products don't get bought and most of its signings failed to deliver a return on the investment. But the strategy of "throw shit against the wall and hope some of it sticks "worked-at least in the industries prime, because of the high profit margins one arrested became a blockbuster.

The bulk of the record industries products don't get bought and most of its signings failed to deliver a return on the investment. But the strategy of "throw shit against the wall and hope some of it sticks "worked-at least in the industries prime, because of the high profit margins one arrested became a blockbuster.

In a sense, digital music has simply taken the inherent tendency of recorded music to its logical limit. all recorded music, analog as well as digital, has the effect of desanctifying and desocializing the experience of music, because what was once an event becomes repeatable and what was once collective becomes privatized.

In a sense, digital music has simply taken the inherent tendency of recorded music to its logical limit. all recorded music, analog as well as digital, has the effect of desanctifying and desocializing the experience of music, because what was once an event becomes repeatable and what was once collective becomes privatized.