2684100, I agree with this Posted by Dr Claw, Tue Apr-10-12 01:25 PM
>started when cost of production went down while return on >investment went up. i wish i had time to source numbers, but >bascially the music industry created a huge bubble >pre-internet which set their expectations for sales super high >(think of those platinum plus debuts). We forget this was all >before the internet. they were risking big budgets for quick >high returns and it was working. so they repeated it. then >the internet popped up (around the same time consumers were >wising up to the glut) numbers drop back to *normal* but the >expectations stay high. since then it's been basically a free >for all, trying to live up to those past expectations. but >those were all very controlled case studies. today they don't >have half the control.
it was a bubble, and this is the result of it bursting
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