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Info There is hope: Tool dethrones Taylor Swift on Billboard 200

Nope I don't follow most cultural and music trends. Now does Taylor get wild on stage and videos like Miley does?
 
I like some of Tool's music - even bought a live album when I was in college circa 1995. But I have no idea how they could possibly dethrone a pop singer. How could they possibly sell that well in comparison?
 
rh71 said:
I like some of Tool's music - even bought a live album when I was in college circa 1995. But I have no idea how they could possibly dethrone a pop singer. How could they possibly sell that well in comparison?
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Tool has been around longer before Swift was even born?
 
glenn1 said:
Dude, Tool's "Sober" is one of the defining music videos of the 90s.

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Well the song sounds decent but I'm not really sure about the video, especially after the character open the sewage pipe and touching the shit going through it. Talk about disgusting.🙄
 
rh71 said:
I like some of Tool's music - even bought a live album when I was in college circa 1995. But I have no idea how they could possibly dethrone a pop singer. How could they possibly sell that well in comparison?
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Older people still buy albums.
 
IronWing said:
Older people still buy albums.
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True story, I had never brought music CDs in my life. Only had cassettes due to them being cheaper at the time and a stockpile. Man I wished I didn't throw my mom's LPs away, they might be worth something today.
 
whm1974 said:
Well the song sounds decent but I'm not really sure about the video, especially after the character open the sewage pipe and touching the shit going through it. Talk about disgusting.🙄
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Maybe these would be more up your alley then? 😛


 
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whm1974 said:
True story, I had never brought music CDs in my life. Only had cassettes due to them being cheaper at the time and a stockpile. Man I wished I didn't throw my mom's LPs away, they might be worth something today.
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My first 2 music purchases were cassettes though, my sister had given me a Kris Kross album as a gift and I traded that shit in ASAP for credit and bought U2 War and Echo and the Bunnymen.

Still have some LPs around somewhere, my daughter had no idea what they were. We went through this whole routine about "how did you listen to music when you were my age, you had the old style iPods where you had to spin the little wheel?" My son just thinks a Walkman is an old-timey camera. When I told her that all phones used to have cords and were attached to the wall she looked straight at me and said "now you're lying." And then asked me since I'm so old, did we have toys when I was a kid.
 
This might would be interesting news but honestly this is fucking sad as shit sign of how sad the music industry is these days. They sold 270,000 albums for their debut week. Swift sold 867,000 and then their fans are bragging because they outsold her 2nd week by only 80,000? I guess when you're desperate to hang onto the band from your high school days or something.

Also, WTF at their collector CD. It has a 4" display and a speaker (which I'm sure sounds like total shit). At first I thought it was like a bluetooth speaker or iPod Touch type of thing (and thinking they probably didn't even make money off of the sales of the physical copies), but its just like integrated into the shitty paper housing of the CD. And they want $45 for that shit.

Apparently Adele is like the only one selling albums like they used to. She's killing fucking everyone.

For fuck's sake the highest selling album in 2018 was the Greatest Showman soundtrack?

The music industry is a fucking joke these days. I love it.
 
glenn1 said:
My first 2 music purchases were cassettes though, my sister had given me a Kris Kross album as a gift and I traded that shit in ASAP for credit and bought U2 War and Echo and the Bunnymen.

Still have some LPs around somewhere, my daughter had no idea what they were. We went through this whole routine about "how did you listen to music when you were my age, you had the old style iPods where you had to spin the little wheel?" My son just thinks a Walkman is an old-timey camera. When I told her that all phones used to have cords and were attached to the wall she looked straight at me and said "now you're lying." And then asked me since I'm so old, did we have toys when I was a kid.
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If you can still have a turntable you could just play the LPs, same with the Walkman if it still works. Also show your kids a working landline phone, rural areas and other folks still have them. Both of them can always use the Internet to look this old stuff up. Wikipedia is a good resource for that.

Oh and just for giggles show them an 8 Track.😵 Disco music maybe?
 
darkswordsman17 said:
This might would be interesting news but honestly this is fucking sad as shit sign of how sad the music industry is these days. They sold 270,000 albums for their debut week. Swift sold 867,000 and then their fans are bragging because they outsold her 2nd week by only 80,000? I guess when you're desperate to hang onto the band from your high school days or something.

Also, WTF at their collector CD. It has a 4" display and a speaker (which I'm sure sounds like total shit). At first I thought it was like a bluetooth speaker or iPod Touch type of thing (and thinking they probably didn't even make money off of the sales of the physical copies), but its just like integrated into the shitty paper housing of the CD. And they want $45 for that shit.

Apparently Adele is like the only one selling albums like they used to. She's killing fucking everyone.

For fuck's sake the highest selling album in 2018 was the Greatest Showman soundtrack?

The music industry is a fucking joke these days. I love it.
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Most people these days don't buy music, they just rent it.
pcgeek11 said:
I've never heard of "Tool" either. But looking at their videos they are some screwed up dudes. Seriously screwed up.
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I'm pretty sure the intent was to freak out squares like you.
 
whm1974 said:
I brought songs off Amazon a few times, but lately I just watch music videos on YouTube.
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That can be a hassle because they're of such varying quality, I can't stand poor quality encodings. Anything I really care about, I buy in some format or another.
 
darkswordsman17 said:
This might would be interesting news but honestly this is fucking sad as shit sign of how sad the music industry is these days. They sold 270,000 albums for their debut week. Swift sold 867,000 and then their fans are bragging because they outsold her 2nd week by only 80,000? I guess when you're desperate to hang onto the band from your high school days or something.

Also, WTF at their collector CD. It has a 4" display and a speaker (which I'm sure sounds like total shit). At first I thought it was like a bluetooth speaker or iPod Touch type of thing (and thinking they probably didn't even make money off of the sales of the physical copies), but its just like integrated into the shitty paper housing of the CD. And they want $45 for that shit.

Apparently Adele is like the only one selling albums like they used to. She's killing fucking everyone.

For fuck's sake the highest selling album in 2018 was the Greatest Showman soundtrack?

The music industry is a fucking joke these days. I love it.
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I'm pretty sure pop(ular) music has always been the highest-selling since like ever.
 
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