Why do live concerts go on today despite tech enabling listening elsewhere?
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Booniedog85 — 7 months ago(September 02, 2025 11:53 AM)
Technology that allows you to listen to full songs have been in existence for over 120 years. Radio has allowed you to listen to live concerts has been common for 75+ years. Yet people still buy tickets for live concerts by the droves. Why is this? From my understanding just like how movies stole the main audience of theatre and how people were yapping out loud that TV will kill Cinema, when recording technology was first created and esp radio started becoming very commercial about music and concerts there was a belief that live concerts will be killed in the distant future. Yet despite advances in technology now selling phones that cost less than a meal at Applebee's that can hold hundreds of songs and fit in your pocket and the internet allowing free access to more music than ever before, people still attend live concerts today and if anything its common for musicians to make more cash from live performances today than from album sales esp as piracy continues to impact profits.
Why is this? Whats about seeing people perform music live that cannot be attained at home?