Bad Religion‘s Brett Gurewitz and Greg Graffin recently spoke to Rolling Stone about the new reissue of their album, New Maps of Hell, which is due out July 08, 2008.
Brett explains why the band is reissuing the record so soon:
I’ve found that most kids I know don’t want a CD even if you give it to them for free. They love the music, but they just want to get it on their iPod. Really what it’s about is: here is the CD, but here’s some really nice artistic content you can have. It’s not just a cheap piece of plastic. There’s some posters, you got all the lyrics, you’ve got a DVD which is beautifully shot with seven cameras of the set we did when first releasing the album. It’s a new paradigm.
He also comments on the decline of the CD as a format, saying:
I’m not worried in the slightest. I think the music industry is about to enter into a golden age. It’s wonderful. I don’t think record companies need to sell CDs. Major labels need something cheap that they can sell bulk of, or they’re going to go under. Small companies like myself, that kind of evolved to be the cockroaches in the music industry, to survive on meager sustenance? We’re going to be fine. We’re the ones who will be left when the whole thing craters. Music consumption is up. It’s CD sales that are down. My kid doesn’t have a single CD, not one.
You can check out the rest of the interview here.
Source Bad Religion‘s Brett Gurewitz and Greg Graffin recently spoke to Rolling Stone about the new reissue of their album, New Maps of Hell, which is due out July 08, 2008.
Brett explains why the band is reissuing the record so soon:
I’ve found that most kids I know don’t want a CD even if you give it to them for free. They love the music, but they just want to get it on their iPod. Really what it’s about is: here is the CD, but here’s some really nice artistic content you can have. It’s not just a cheap piece of plastic. There’s some posters, you got all the lyrics, you’ve got a DVD which is beautifully shot with seven cameras of the set we did when first releasing the album. It’s a new paradigm.
He also comments on the decline of the CD as a format, saying:
I’m not worried in the slightest. I think the music industry is about to enter into a golden age. It’s wonderful. I don’t think record companies need to sell CDs. Major labels need something cheap that they can sell bulk of, or they’re going to go under. Small companies like myself, that kind of evolved to be the cockroaches in the music industry, to survive on meager sustenance? We’re going to be fine. We’re the ones who will be left when the whole thing craters. Music consumption is up. It’s CD sales that are down. My kid doesn’t have a single CD, not one.