What Happened?

back in the day, SoulSlam played in bands (hence the name)...and listened to a lot of music. It was a dream to make it a profession. Alas, it was not to be. That's OK.

As it happens, music took less and less of an importance in life with marriage and kids and career and making the ends meet. SoulSlam has not had a traditional stereo in years and years. I have my Sirius radio in the vehicle. I have my iPhone (which blows lately) and my iTunes. But I still have loads of CDs and vinyl...

So recently I've been listening more and more and interested in digitalizing (is that a word?) music. Problem is the really old stuff is mostly on vinyl, which is basically useless for my endeavors. So I've walked into a couple of places that may/did/used to sell music. Places like Best Buy, Target, Wal-mart, etc. And they have about 38 CDs in stock and it's none of what I want. So where did all the music go?

It got SoulSlam thinking. Now obviously you can stream or buy on iTunes or someplace. But where is the music, the bands, the kids/fans? When I see what I assume to be kids listening nowadays it's not rock. It's some pop/hip-hop thing. It's pretty troublesome. Everybody is a model. Everything is planned to perfection. It's sad.

But the record companies have nobody to blame but themselves. Boom!