Steve Albini Quotes

Any time you can give consumers more of what they want, it's a good thing. Unbundling the album is a good thing. In the case of music - because it is content that you can slice into songs - doing that is of huge benefit to consumers.

The culture of buying an album on CD or vinyl has gone out of the window. A lot of kids don't really understand that, they just hop onto Limewire, or find a BitTorrent, or even just go onto iTunes if they're going to pay for something. It's just right there, there's no searching about.

The fact of the matter is that 40 years ago, unless you bought the record, you couldn't hear the music. It was such a narrow track in comparison to today.

You have an entire generation of kids who grew up with the idea that music is something that you can download for free.

Selling MP3s or physical copies, it's still cool, but I think it's slowly becoming outdated to where people just want to build a culture.

The whole experience of getting an album from an artist you like and listening to it from beginning to end is sort of gone. Now it's piecemeal.

I think that people will always want music; I think that the form that they will get it in, or distributed to them from, and the price they pay for it is what's up in question.

It's made music more accessible with YouTube and the ability to trade audio files. But it hasn't made it more popular.

Spotify wants to make consuming music simpler and at the same time pay the rights owners.

The Internet's changed everything. There are no record stores to hang out in anymore.

I think the cool thing about being alive in 2017 is that you can literally put out music as soon and as frequently as you want to because of streaming services.

I come from the streaming world, so the changing trend of consuming music that way is positive for me.

At the end of the day, it's not the labels buying the music: it's the people out there, and you have to be behind the music and not anyone else. You're the one representing it, you're playing it for everyone; you're doing promotion and travelling around the world.

I think streaming, in general, is democratising music in general.

People don't buy CDs so much anymore because it's easy to download everything. So, while the record industry is declining, the music is heard a lot more than before.

The business has changed dramatically from what it was even just a few years ago. Music isn't even distributed the same way anymore. Even CDs are becoming a thing of the past. The Internet has made it easier to get my music out to anyone who wants it, but at the same time, I feel like we're losing the mystique.

Selling MP3s or physical copies, it's still cool, but I think it's slowly becoming outdated to where people just want to build a culture. The culture's what you're selling at this point.

If you're 20 years old, you've grown up without buying albums.

The Internet is the wrong direction for music.

A lot of people don't know about music, but buy records. A lot of people that know about music can't afford to buy records.

England's a small nation, and the pop music industry is built on fashion.

Technology has made music ultimately more democratic.

Music changes so fast, and we're in a singles market.

This is how people are going to listen to music now - streaming. So diversify as a band. It doesn't mean selling your songs to adverts.

Because of technology, there's no longer the social shaming that goes on if you're a black kid walking into a record store to buy Nirvana.