Standing on the headland taking in the scene.

[reddragdiva]

"If people spent 1/10th as much on music as they did on corsets for instance, you wouldn`t see LJ full of bands whinging that the scene is dead." (markeris, on the goth scene, from here.)

I can hardly believe how much money I used to spend on records and how little I do now. Not that I spend it on clothes either. Nor am I making it up in MP3s. Mostly I'm just wishing I had my old vinyl here. With a laser turntable.

Discuss.

(By the way, full points to mickmercer for switching on comments at last. A lot of interesting ones, too.)

Comments

[reddragdiva]

IMO, the rise in the popularity of EBM in the goth scene is precisely because they have good pop songs and the trad goth rock bands don't.

Eris' comment applies just as well, to my mind, to buying EBM. The EBM bands know their fans are goths, at least of a sort.

(And I know your fondness for EBM. Now you just have to combine it with hair metal ...)

[childeric.livejournal.com]

And I know your fondness for EBM. Now you just have to combine it with hair metal ..

Apop live have practically done that already. Bless, it's so sweet the way they want to be rock stars. ;-)

Yes, you (and markeris) are probably right about there being more money spent on clothes than EBM records (buy one item from Cyberdog and you've spent about the price of 10 CDs). But EBM is relatively flourishing: or certainly gives that impression.

[reddragdiva]

Not compared to, e.g., Germany.