Soon I discovered real practical benefits of this kind of music listening.

Unlike their prehistoric “colleagues” on the FM, real radio stations always tell me what they are playing at the moment. This leads to a huge number of musical discoveries, which I could only dream of before. I often come across real masterpieces, which I would never get to know through visiting countless music websites, with millions of bands whose names don’t tell me much.

And when I come across them, I get an opportunity to explore the band’s creativity and perhaps to buy their CD. Or download…

But it depends on the degree of the genius of the album and its ability to stand on a shelf next to ‘Queen: The Night at the Opera’ or ‘Air: Moon Safari’.

Record industry now has one and only chance to sell something to me: to show me something that I can strongly fall in love with. Love it so much that I will willingly want to buy it and put on my shelf. I think that it won’t have any other way ever again.

From now on, only super-rarities will be sold for money. Masterpieces that are impossible to pass by. And whether record industry will offer me such music or not, it remains its own problem.

But I do not rule out another scenario, furthermore, I feel it would be ideal.

By the moment record business almost ceases generating income (and this will happen for sure), all those involved in music just for money will have left it.

The few that remain will be creating music only because they have real spiritual needs fro that.

And, as usually in such cases, all that is done with soul will be so good that we will desire to buy it again.

It’s never too much when it comes to the real music…

Record industry in the state it has reached, does not like their customers. It does not like artists either. The record industry loves only itself. And this is the reason why the energy it spends does not come back to it in any form.

I started this article with a quote from King Crimson, and will finish it with the last line of the last song of the last LP by The Beatles.

This message has a strong meaning and is the quintessence of what the band wanted to say to the world. It shows their true attitude to people and creativity, and that is why records of this band is sold and will always be.

If the record industry could apply these words to itself just for a little, then it has a chance.

- and in the end the love you take

is equal to the love you make (The Beatles).

/translation from russian/

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