The Show Must Go On
By Jillian Cohan From the March/April 2008 Issue
Filed under: Culture
Aging acts account for most of the music industry’s live performance revenue. What happens when these acts are gone?
You can’t steal a concert. You can’t download the band—or the sweaty fans in the front row, or the merch guy, or the sound tech—to your laptop to take with you. Concerts are not like albums—easy to burn, copy, and give to your friends. If you want to share the concert-going experience, you and your friends all have to buy tickets. For this reason, many in the ailing music industry see concerts as the next great hope to revive their business.
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Follow-up comment rss or Leave a Trackback[...] Open Your Eyes - Music and Entertainment Blog wrote an interesting post today on The Show Must Go On - The American, A Magazine of IdeasHere’s a quick excerptAging acts account for most of the music industry’s live performance revenue. What happens when these acts are gone? You can’t steal a concert. … If you want to share the concert-going experience, you and your friends all have to buy tickets…. [...]