Some controversy was generated earlier this week by UK liberal-stance newspaper The Guardian, which published an editorial piece blaming games for the decline in the music industry.
However, Sarcastic Gamer has secured an exclusive leak from a mole inside the newspaper (literally, he’s printed in it and everything sometimes) which reveals that music downloads are just the tip of the iceberg.
The exclusive revelations await over the jump!
The report published on Tuesday in The Guardian blamed the rising popularity of games for the decline in music sales more than illegal filesharers. In essence, it said that choosing a £40 game that would last for weeks was fast beginning to become preferable to buying a £10 album with “two great tracks and eight dud ones”. Said the report:
I think a lot of people are choosing the game – and downloading the two tracks. That’s real discretion in spending. It’s hurting the music industry…
This only appears to be the start. Sarcastic Gamer’s mole inside The Guardian was able to send us some excerpts of unpublished reports written by the staff of the liberal-agenda newspaper, some of which are published below:
- “It’s apparent that sales of computer games are to blame for the current popularity of right-wing-agenda political parties who recently found their way into the European Parliament. Releases such as Red Faction Guerrilla are full of right-wing undertones that are surely to blame for the decline of democracy and the recent spate of chaos in Europe.”
- “Over in America, the rise of computer games during the start of the decade is obviously to blame for the rise of the Republican government from 2000 to 2008. As their popularity increased, so did that of the President at the time; irrefutable evidence that computer games are to blame for the disasters in private healthcare and other sectors.”
- “As computer games have become more popular, the state of the environment has declined as console manufacturers such as Nontondo [sic] work overtime to produce more and more hazardous chemicals to create their Wee [sic] consoles for millions worldwide. It is plain to see that computer games are murdering the planet.”
Scandalous! Beware the liberal agenda.
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LOL that’s all I have to say.
don’t worry the guardian is the crappiest of newspapers they proberly think the daily mail is popular becasue it insults video games.
ah fiction friday. THANK GOD! all i can say is, I JUST GOT F’D IN THE A’D!
soon they change there name to mr thompson weakly…
Well you completely missed the point of that article. It was saying that a “lost sale” in terms of taxation was actually not “lost” at all because the money doesn’t disappear, it’s saying that the money is still spend somewhere. I get that this is fiction Friday, but it’d be nice if you thought about what you were parodying before you covered it.
I love how i says a album has 2 great ones and 8 dud ones, because its “spot on” accurate, The music industry has become dull and boring, 1/2 “hits” on each artists are a common denominator, And all the more reasons why i liked F-Zero GX and Timesplitters 2, the only album i have actually gotten my full price out of a album was when i found out about “The Hours That Remain” by Mercenary, it has 80% good songs.
Its too bad Games stayed popular and G. W. did not…