Rob Zombie: The Truth About New Albums
Metal vocalist and film maker Rob Zombie spoke to AOL's Noisecreep, saying:
"Truthfully, when you make a new album … you go, 'OK here's eleven new songs, five of which we'll never play live. And here's the two or three singles that will always be in the set. I think they [the record industry] dropped the ball a long time ago and they're never going to recover from it. Nobody wants to actually purchase music any more … it's a weird time because the music scene is alive and well, it's just the music buying public is not… A year from now, I don't even know if they'll be pressing CDs anymore or, if they do, stores won't even bother carrying em."
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With all due respect to Rob Zombie, who is a very smart man, CDs still outsell digital albums at nearly a 3 to 1 clip, so I don’t see them stopping production of them anytime soon.
People seem to forget that high speed internet is still a luxury in many parts of the country.
quote: “it’s a weird time because the music scene is alive and well, it’s just the music buying public is not… A year from now, I don’t even know if they’ll be pressing CDs anymore or, if they do, stores won’t even bother carrying em.”
It’s the recession.
The music business will continue to change for the better even though sales are down.