I suppose it's a good thing I haven't heard of him.

FTFA: "She made us drinks to drink/We drunk 'em, got drunk."

Welcome to the new music industry indeed. Fifty years from now, (hell, twenty-five) 17 million ringtones won't be remembered. They made their money, but what kind of musical legacy is this? Welcome to the Age of Content-Free Music is more like it.

BaronVonAsshat: Welcome to the Age of Content-Free Music is more like it.
it's been that way for a while. As sad as it may seem, I'm content in knowing that the bands that can barely sell 50k records, if that, will be remembered for far longer than the assholes going platinum now.

FeedTheCollapse: BaronVonAsshat: Welcome to the Age of Content-Free Music is more like it.
it's been that way for a while. As sad as it may seem, I'm content in knowing that the bands that can barely sell 50k records, if that, will be remembered for far longer than the assholes going platinum now.

I know, but I just can't help biatching about it whenever it comes up. And I agree with you 100%.

We need a tag that exemplifies this:

Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public.
H. L. Mencken

MIDLAKE will save music for the music lovers. Check them out. Subtle Geniuses!

This article represents everything that's wrong with the music industry specifically, and hip-hop in particular:

1) Disorganization
2) No imagination
3) Rampant half-assery
4) Flash-in-the-pan nobodies who are literally here today and gone tomorrow
5) Total lack of anything resembling art
6) Watering down
7) Overhyping

Crap, stupid music for crap, stupid people delivered by crap, stupid executives, none of whom know their asses from holes in the ground.

Let me buy you a DRAAANK (new window)

Well there's 17,000,000 more people I can cross off of my "People I'd like to meet" list.

who the fark PAYS for ringtones anymore shhiiiat that's stupid..

i make may own ringtones with editing audio/mp3 software and post them on mytinyphone.com

ringtones pops

Link (new window)

ok and then there is this

funniest ringtone ever - indian man outraged

Link (new window)

I'm not going to worry until I start hearing the "Mail Me" ring tone from Suicide Club while at a train station.

...meaning that there are 17,000,000 people who were too stupid and lazy to use a site like Myxertones.com to make their own for free.

ClicheGuevara07: ...meaning that there are 17,000,000 people who were too stupid and lazy to use a site like Myxertones.com to make their own for free.

Just curious, do they send spam or anything to your phone?

Interrupted Infinitum: ClicheGuevara07: ...meaning that there are 17,000,000 people who were too stupid and lazy to use a site like Myxertones.com to make their own for free.

Just curious, do they send spam or anything to your phone?

Nope. Just a picture message containing your homemade ringtone.

ClicheGuevara07: Interrupted Infinitum: ClicheGuevara07: ...meaning that there are 17,000,000 people who were too stupid and lazy to use a site like Myxertones.com to make their own for free.

Just curious, do they send spam or anything to your phone?

Nope. Just a picture message containing your homemade ringtone.

Awesome. Thanks.

groverXIII: I suppose it's a good thing I haven't heard of him.

Want to know where I first heard about him? On an NPR story. The best part of the whole thing is that no one has any idea why T-Pain's songs work sell so damn well as ringtones, not even T-Pain himself. At the end of the piece he says he knows it can't last forever and he's ready for the day he's not popular anymore. But in the meantime, if people keep buying it...

Kind of sad when even the artists know they are disposable.

T-Pain's ringtone goes 17x Platinum

I knew I was on to something when I was selling T'Pau ringtones. A couple of different letters and a new punctuation mark, and I could've been a double gazillionaire.

I can honestly say I've never bought or downloaded a ringtone.

/never owned a cellphone either
//no use for one
///find people that constantly have one to their ears very annoying for some reason

Why not quit screwing around and just have a single optional ringtone that consists of your own voice screaming, "LOOK AT ME!!! I'VE GOT A CELLULAR TELEPHONE!!!"?

People whine about expensive car/small dick type crap all the time, but cell phones are where it's at when it comes to people compensating. The louder/more elaborate/longer-it-takes-me-to-answer-so-everyone-hears-it the ringtone, the more dedicated the attention-seeking dumbfark is to making sure you know how connected and important they are.

The problem isn't the 'musicians'
I mean, the producers of the sound

It's the dumbfarking dingbats who PAY for it

ultradeeg: MIDLAKE will save music for the music lovers. Check them out. Subtle Geniuses!

Did you ever want to run around with Bandits? To see many places and hide in ditches?

/Trials of Van Occupanther = WIN

albert71292: I can honestly say I've never bought or downloaded a ringtone.

/never owned a cellphone either
//no use for one
///find people that constantly have one to their ears very annoying for some reason

Off the lawn!

oh frak, not this halfwit again!

/lives in tallahassee, fl

Um...who?

My ringtone = old-style telephone ring.

My lawn. Get off it.

That sound you hear? It's millions of people ruining your perfectly managed lawn.

Uzzah: T-Pain's ringtone goes 17x Platinum

I knew I was on to something when I was selling T'Pau ringtones. A couple of different letters and a new punctuation mark, and I could've been a double gazillionaire.