Casio CZ/ VZ/ FZ - Pro Series

--- In CZsynth@yahoogroups.com, "zoinky420" <zoinky420@...> wrote:
> To which my response is that they would not have sold so many records 
> in 1994 if people like me, college radio DJs, and nightclub DJs, had 
> not been hyping and spinning their record in 1990.  Unfortunately, 
> relying on your understanding of your own motivations most likely, 
you 
> thought I was trying to brag about having been into Nine Inch Nails 
18 
> years ago.  When in fact, what I have been trying to convey is that 
in 
> my opinion the same machinations that made NIN popular enough in 1990 
> to be able to become a massive commercial success in 1994, are still 
> available to any other artist capable of recording an album as 
> prescient and groundbreaking as NIN's first album.
>

And by the way, as I mentioned earlier, NIN's first album was a sleeper 
that was only enjoying success in nightclubs for two years before it 
finally charted.  For those of us who knew about it before it charted, 
it was a somewhat special record.  It sounded like nothing else out 
there, and clearly had more of a chance to make a dent in the 
mainstream than Ministry did.  So we hyped it, we wanted the rest of 
the world to know about NIN.  And like I said, most of us were on to 
other things by 1994, and more than a few of us, including myself, made 
fun of NIN and the posers who liked them.  So if you don't understand 
what I'm trying to say about the way good bands become a success, 
you've missed the boat entirely on any understanding of the structure 
of pop culture.  In those days, people didn't walk into record stores 
to buy product from acts they'd never heard of.  People walked into 
record stores and bought product from acts they'd heard on the radio, 
or spun at nightclubs.  Now they buy product from acts they've heard 
mp3s of and they don't need to trek to the record store to do so.  
There may be a slight shift in the make-up of the winners and losers, 
but no more so than in any other minor infrastructure shift in the 
industry (for example, when CDs were first marketed, classical and jazz 
recordings got a big boost in sales because most people buying CDs were 
trying to buy 'quality' sound.  Rock & Roll and pop music was not seen 
as the market for CDs at that time, so CDs of those genres were not 
marketed at all.  Obviously their sales suffered)