Week 5-Why the music industry hates guitar hero page 268

   While reading through a few articles in our Argument English textbook. One very relevant article to teens today caught my eye. It is the growing popularity of the game Guitar Hero. Now the argument in this one is that artists are getting upset, while also companies like Itunes, over the fact that the game is minimally paying for rights to use the songs and taking away traffic to the sites. To me this is somewhat of a poor decision to the music companies. Instead of whining over the fact that they are becoming more popular, they should be working with the game in ways to benefit them both. Instead of fighting for more money, why not fight to incorporate both? As stated in the article Aerosmith has even come out with a version of Guitar hero and made more money off of it than any album they have ever come out with. Companies need to realize the change in fads over the decades. In the early 2000's yes CD's would be selling like crazy, but now a day's it is all video games for teens and young adults. In the name of Guitar Hero I completely agree with the way it is going. Personally, the music companies are acting pretty childish. I am more than positive they are making enough money to continue to grow. If companies would stop being so greedy and trying to conquer all other industries and be on top, they could work on ways to relate to all the age groups of our society today.