“Of course, the ‘free’ marketeers out there are going to say that the study is biased because it was in part funded by the British royalty-collecting outfit PRS, but even the most averse-to-paying consumer has to admit that feeling overwhelmed by a sheer glut of anything results in shortcuts being made–and in these cases, those shortcuts involve people paying attention to either ‘most popular’ lists or the recommendations of their friends. I am sure that some readers of this site will say that it isn’t true and provide personal anecdotes to back up that claim, but all I’m going to say is that anyone reading a music blog–or, heck, even reading music news that isn’t just ‘so and so had a baby / got arrested / died’ is a much more active consumer of music-related entertainment than people who are just tooling around for stuff to fill their iPods.”
— Idolator: Music Pirates Apparently Have The Same Taste As Boring People Who Pay For Music (via tylercoates)
Reblogged from Tyler Coates.
