Review of I Need That Record! (2008) by Erik J — 13 Feb 2015
This is a great documentary explaining how the music industry destroyed the music industry. It also chronicles the gradual disappearance of music stores as a result. As good of a watch this is, I find it quite sad and disheartening.
If you really understand and cherish the value of music, you'll get it. And to those yahoos giving bad ratings because they don't like the "portrayal" of the corporate record labels, big box stores, and the "Clear Channel" like radio stations role in destroying the music scene, is absolutely ignorant.
It's not an agenda within the film, it's a straight up fact. They are the ones who funneled the money into what they wanted to sell, in terms of paying radio stations to play what the labels wanted us to hear and funding the multimillion dollar marketing shit show of pop culture.
That's why people got labeled as sell outs. It wasn't about the music anymore, the artists were chasing the dollar. And that dollar comes in form of some of the least creative and worst music being created.
The labels could have completely prevented this by supporting all music. And I firmly believe the music industry would not be in such dire straits.
This review of I Need That Record! (2008) was written by Erik J on 13 Feb 2015.
I Need That Record! has generally received mixed reviews.
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