okay not to overgeneralize here, and i’m sure there are plenty of bright Iron Maiden fans, but if you are an artist that attracts a particularly old or technologically inept fanbase, you will still sell records because your fans don’t know how to download music, illegally or otherwise. there’s no mystery about why like Godsmack and Avenged Sevenfold always make chart-topping records, and if writers acknowledged that people who are seriously buying Iron Maiden’s 15th record are old and maybe ummm not the most discerning tools in the shed/pennies in the fountain/knives in the drawer, than there’d be no need for incredulous newspaper articles about it. not to be needlessly smug about why Iron Maiden’s 15th record has sold more records than every Best New Album this year combined, but you know what i’m saying
