chexxon wrote:

OK, so when did everyone lose interest in music and go ga-ga over
movies? Enquiring minds want to know . Pardon my ignorance, but
you see, I pulled a bit of a hi-fi Rip Van Winkle. After buying my
current stereo system in the early 90's, I took 10 years off from
being an audio buff, and only recently got back into it. And I
quickly found out that most "audio" stores have been transformed into
video ones ! Half the floor space is now taken up by large-screen
TV's, the DVD players have largely displaced the CD players, and
speakers are now 6-piece units rather than pairs. What the heck is
going on here !?

Money. Shiny toys to sell people. That's about it.


I can't say this development totally surprises me since music has gone
down the toilet in recent years; but then again, so have movies .
I'm not bitter or anything, just a bit fascinated by it.

Music is declining thanks to to death of the recording industry.
It's been a long time coming, and frankly, the artists deserve
better thqan the crap slave labor contracts they had to put up with
for decades.

Most of the good music has moved online and the artists are making
at least some money from it.