I'm not the person you replied to but I've considered allowing nothing but live music. Maybe buying and learning to play an instrument. My very distant family (only met them once at a reunion) are farmers and they entertain themselves by playing their own music and have a band. It'd encourage me to actually go to concerts rather than have the instant gratification of electronic media. For me, at least, its about forming habits against that instant gratification digital media provides. We've decided on an middle ground, we're going to start buying CDs (which are really cheap these days!). I don't remember the last time I listened to an album all the way through instead of flipping from song to song.
Even with movies, we were watching "Meet Me in St Louis" and it was interesting to learn that before TV people would put on skits for their family rather than passively being presented with a movie. We'll still be watching movies (in theaters) but only sometimes.
What about music that can only be crafted, but not played live? What about music that works best with headphones? What about music that doesn't lend itself to the consumption of alcohol? What about those who want to make music, not T-Shirts or mugs or what-the-fuck-ever? Congrats, you just restricted musicians to live entertainers, just because that's all you care about.
Honestly, I'm not at a show to watch somebody perform their music, I'm there to enjoy that music with a few hundred/thousand other people, and listen to it on a big stereo.
It's a socializing thing, not a consumption thing.
I've listened to hundreds of artists in my life. Been to maybe 3 concerts. I don't like the environment; I'm a bedroom listener at heart. There's no reason why I should have to attend a concert or buy a hoodie to support music I enjoy. Just sell me the music.
I should clarify, no recorded media in the home or with a mobile device. It wasn’t a protest of strictly modern technology, as some of these things have been around for ages in other forms.
If I wanted to listen to music, I went to local shows. That was the mentality.
I love music, yet I pretty much never listen to it except in a live setting (with earplugs of course!) because I really really don’t want to lose my hearing. I _could_ listen to it all day every day while I work like my coworkers but I know I have a tendency to blast it when I listen to it.. so I just don’t. Kind of sad.
I agree. I love dancing, especially to live music. And I'm a musician myself.
But I avoid restaurants and places with live music unless the sole purpose is dancing. They advertise live music as a feature but sadly I treat it as a negative.
Maybe it's just me, but I have never been at a restaurant/bar playing live music where I've thought "this is playing at exactly the right level of volume."
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