Hemotep
Well-Known Member
Absolutely. The worst part of the 90s-00s was the number of bands who had that mentality, largely pushed by the record companies. Napster and then Bearshare were amazing. I still bought a lot of CDs (hello Columbia House and BMG! And the used bins of course) and went to a ton of concerts to support artists, but I got to check stuff out early and pass on a lot of crap that way.This is why the pirate life was fer me. I was not an album person as a teen because of it.
I remember watching a behind the music segment on blink-182 and they just made the track they were going to use as the lead single, maybe for Enema of the State. Mark Hoppus then said “now we just need to make 9 more songs of filler crap and we’ve got an album.” He was joking, but that’s how it felt with so many albums backs then. Napster freed us from those shackles.