Bon Jovi: Steve Jobs Killed Music Industry

You know......I dont really like Bon Jovi,but I gotta say he's pretty on the money with this,there is something abiut going to the record store and digging and finding something you can connect with that is really cool to you.....Im a definite hardcore record collector............

I think it's more a case of crap music killing the industry. I am going to be frank here: If you are going to revert to producing your crap music on a computer, then I will buy your crap music on a computer.

"making a decision based on the jacket, not knowing what the record sounded like"

Ya, I'm sure the industry truly does miss the days of consumers lacking the ability to make an informed purchasing decision.

Jobs may have administered the killing blow, but it was whiny little pricks like Jon that spent decades skullfucking the music industry with "Rock Against Drugs". Bon Jovi should STFU and go back to counting his money.

Greedy record labels and the RIAA killed the music industry. Steve Jobs just beat the dead horse for all the money it was worth. Put into this context, is that surprising?

"Kids today have missed the whole experience of. . . taking your allowance money and making a decision based on the jacket, not knowing what the record sounded like, and looking at a couple of still pictures and imagining it."

I think what he meant to say was, "Kids today have missed the whole experience of wasting their money on albums that sound like total butthole because they heard the one good single on the radio, and didn't have any way to determine whether the rest was any good."

He says Steve Jobs and other digital distributors are ruining music, I say exactly the opposite. The ability to preview music before I spend my hard-earned money on it is a good thing. I still buy all the music I listen to, but now, I don't have to buy an album's worth of poop to get a good song. And I still find album art creative and intriguing; the fact that I don't have to dig through a collection of dusty vinyls while some asshole hipster stares me down over the top of his horn-rimmed glasses doesn't lessen the emotions that music evokes, or the enjoyment I get listening to it for the first time.

tl;dr: world's smallest violin for Bon Jovi playing over here.

Before, we would buy CDs and ripped them into mp3 for our devices. Now, we just download straight to devices. Apple just cut out the middle man. Downloads make less money, because you don't have to buy every song. Realistically, not many like every song on a CDs. $12-$15 for CDs where as $0.99 for each song you like.

iTunes didn't kill the music industry. Crap music killed the music industry. Not sure I agree with comments made by a guy that wrote a bunch of songs, when only a handful of them don't completely suck.

Microsoft also has done their fair share. Most people on PCs use Windows. An OS should have better copyright protection. It's very easy to rip an MP3 off of a YouTube video. MP3s should be just as protected as Windows operating systems themselves to prevent such sharing. That's not exactly the consumer's fault. Someone left a hole wide open.

Technology killed it..........

When was music ever about a piece of vinyl or plastic??? Whether I hear a song on the radio, my iPod, a CD, or live, it is the actual music that counts. I believe the piracy is the only downside to digital music revolution. Now any band/group, regardless of location, can be heard by anyone dedicated finding something to relate to, without the band having to pay 5 years salary working at a low paying job to pay for mass production of CDs . No longer will we be fooled into buying a full album for a song that probably ate up 95 percent of the album's budget to make.

Cherish the past, look to the future, and ROCK ON!!!

Physical mediums are awesome. I like Steam's ability to not have to worry about settiny up multiplayer accounts and the such and I also like their update feature and their community but unless I couldn't find it anywhere else I would NEVER buy a game through Steam because I like having the case and the manual and the cool box art (not to mention with a big game 15-20 GB it takes about 1/3 of the time to install). There is something special about having something physical same with a CD.

Having kids spend their money, on an album they can't fully preview, is good for people like Bon Jovi - but it's not good for the kids.

The digital distribution of music affords kids the opportunity to more easily hear artists, and styles of music, they might otherwise not hear. This is good for kids and independent artists, but baf for Bon Jovi.

Music industry dead? I think not!! More like the Music Labels are the ones that are dying!! The Music Industry is thriving and these morons refuse to change their business model to adapt to the changing times.

"In my mind and in my car, we can't rewind we've gone to far, Computers came and broke your heart. Put the blame on Steve Jobs?"

Same song, different verse. Survived before, will continue to survive.

i have to say no. an mp3 shouldn't be copy protected the same way windows is, in the way that a 300+$ item should require a store employee to remove it from the shelf, a 1$ item shouldn't.

im not saying piracy should be there, but more copy protection isn't an answer we like. we started pirating because we only wanted 1 or 2 songs off a cd, someone came and gave us that.

also, i wont say ill look back on a cd and say its ancient, when i can rip a cd and get better quality audio still. once we move to flac ill think that cds are ancient, but till than i envy them because they are higher quality.

My heart bleeds for him - "beauty of taking your allowance money and making a decision based on the jacket, not knowing what the record sounded like" - that's why I have shelves of CD's that I will never play again - partly because my tastes changed, but partly because I bought expensive CD's only to find the music inside was rubbish. I listen to music online. If I like it I buy the CD. If not I delete it and move on. I buy less; but what I buy, I listen to now.

WTF Jon?!? If anything iTunes invigorated the music industry and created a solid foundation for music to be bought legally. JBJ is out of touch and would be shocked if he didn't have iTunes or his kids. lol.

Sounds like he's complaining more about the loss of huge paydays from marginal material than any real damage to the industry. Not every album can be Slippery When Wet, but most are one of the thousands of others released in the same decade that had nothing chartable.
Cover art indeed.

Welcome to the 21st century BJ. Gone are the times when you had to walk to the record store, uphill, barefoot, wind blowing in your face, snow on the ground......wondering is the record in stock.

Killing the music INUDSTRY is actually a good thing.
Digital distribution enabled small bands, who would have previously been shunned by the record companies, to find an audience and make a living.

Good music will always exist, no matter how much money the record companies make and how many mansions the newest blandest MTV popstar owns.

Its really the record companies in their infinite greed that were late to the party , They had a chance to get on board w ITUNES right from the start but they didn;t want to give up the profits they were making , As a professional musician my real complaint is that today very few people listen to a whole CD . If dark side of the moon came out tomorrow the only tune 90% of the people would have only bought was the song MONEY and they would have missed the whole CD experience , The same with Tommy or even SGT Peppers ..... It's a real shame , That's what Jon was trying to say .

wrong... bon jovi is wrong... the record industry killed the record industry. itunes is the only thing stopping people from pirating everything, i don't like spending money on music unless it's for a ticket to a show, or merch supporting said artist... the music industry is dynamic and should be, dinosaurs like bon jovi will never understand it... bands are making money by selling their music to corporations for use in movies commercials etc. think edward sharpe and the magnetic zeros, they sold most of their music and it is in alot of tv shows and commercials... the record labels need to die more quickly...

I wonder if his opinion would be different if they had let iTunes use their music, and had made money off it.

I personally disagree. Take Myspace, for example. How often have you checked your messages just to have 10 bands pleading with you to like their music? Some of those bands have thousands of "friends", yet they can hardly fill a small gig. We aren't given tons of options for fantastic music, we're given EVERYONE's music, whether good or complete crap. Unfortunately, MOST people write crap music. Yes, the music industry raped bands financially, but they also culled the herd of amateurs. Not to mention, it used to be glorious to get signed... now it's just a great way to sign off all profits with no promise to get anywhere.

I love digital music, but it has paved the way to mass piracy. I'm not saying that's the only problem, but it's the most detrimental to the industry. On a side note, have you noticed that large shows have become a thing of the past? That money comes from somewhere...

At least he is not blaming it on piracy.

Nothing like deceiving millions on music listeners by making them purchase an album they know nothing about because it "looks cool". What a douche bag. iTunes and similar music distribution services allow more room for better music, PERIOD. People get to listen to the crap they are about to purchase and decide whether or not to make the decision. It will force musicians to make better music. Sounds pretty damn good to me.

music execs killed the industry itself, trying to stick with the same old boring methods and merchandising/marketing advertising and most importantly pricing.
they screwed themselves over, and i am glad for it. it's about time they were raped instead of the consumers. music companies are dead relics now, they just haven't realized they're extinct yet. the death knell is all we're waiting on.

The flipping through pages is nice, but its really the uncompressed quality of CD music that shines. Just as Netflix does not stream via internet a full HD/theater experience to your house, neither can encoded audio formats. The difference in sound might not be obvious to the kid with the iPod because of some degree of equalization which often leads to saturation of bass and thin highs. However, try listening to that same music on a decent system and you will hear intricacies that you have never heard before.

Well i had the LP, bon jovie, Their debut album, Their first album was not so bad, their second, "new jersy" kinda suked. So that spelled the end for the band really. You cant blame apple for that. And by the way i bought that LP on vynl when the apple IIc was brand new. You know how long ago that is? At home we had a brand new 80386 running win 3.11 playing games like quake, decent, daytona usa. U know it ran at 40mhz? yeah 40 mhz.
I believe that album sold reasonably well, if bon jovie did not invest money back then, say buy some apple stock or something like gold or real estate. Then that is not our problem, quit blaming apple for that.
"let it rock, let it roll, i got the music, give me some more" bon jovie, lol.

I disagree. If MP3 said, "You die!" Jobs said, "You die slowly!"

I don't think it's dead. If it was why are all the new music stars rolling in money? Don't get me wrong new music sucks electronic crap with voice tuners you don't need talent anymore just a good studio to make you sound good.