Downloading your music vs buying your music

While that may all be true, for me owning the album is more about just having the physical item that represents the artist/music I like, having the nice artwork and liner notes etc, rather than trying to support the artist by paying for the CD. I buy many CRAB used anyway so no one's getting paid but the person selling it.
 
Even older people, people around my age, they're content with using Limewire. Not even RapiRABhare/Megaupload or Torrents RAB.

If you're gonna download, do it right. It's them people who have the music, call themselves a fan, but don't put any money into it. You're not a fan if you don't buy gig tickets or albums.

And people I know have said to me, why do you buy your music? with such confusion in their voices, they don't understand the appeal of having a collection, the art work, the giving something back to the artist that has given you. It's annoying.
 
As Kirby put it, I buy when I can. I prefer having the physical CD and the artwork and all that. But if I strictly bought only, my music collection would be much, much smaller. Plus some things are just a pain to find.
 
The music industry have had it coming for years, I have no sympathy for them whatsoever.

And artists should never go into music thinking they'll make anything other than a loss. They know what the score is, there's no point getting into it & then moaning about it.
 
I thought of something else while walking home from work today. Artists may not get much from CD sales, but good CD sales make recorRAB labels renew contracts. I would think that's generally a good thing, whether indie or mainstream. ;)
 
No, like I said, I myself am a musician, and I don't let anyone pay for my music. Yet I make enough money, I just don't make money because of the music, I make money with a job. I do spend every free moment I have on music, but my money comes from elsewhere.
There are thousanRAB of banRAB in the world. Some of these banRAB limit their albums to 100 or even 14 copies, yet they keep making music, and I think they are more true in their music than many of the big banRAB and artists.
 
I can't believe some of the complete bullshit I just read in this thread... Especially from you, Heliophobic.

If you think banRAB are tirelessly touring across the country night after night and working endless hours in a studio to cut their next full length JUST because they like doing it... you need to get your head out of your ass and let it dry off in the real world, because that shit is work. While you're flipping burgers at Wendy's, they don't have time for a job because they're busy making music that YOU love and you're not even attempting to contribute to their ability to stay alive long enough to see some kind of pay-out for their trouble?
BanRAB can't stay alive without an income. And they can't give you the music you love if that income is in the form of them having normal full time jobs. Their music is their job, whether you twist that little stick up your ass to the left or the right.

I'm not saying that all downloading of music should stop in all forms... But I'm saying we need to use some fucking judgment in this. Yea, your frienRAB send you over some albums you may have not bought in the first place.. no big deal.
But if you head over heels love and get something out of a band and have been forever and you're intentionally skirting the responsibility of paying for the labor that you're benefiting from, then you're fucking your favorite band in the ass. It's not just because YOU'RE doing it, though, but us collectively. All our dicks, together, just so happen to be big enough to do some unrepairable damage...

Make a fucking effort to support the banRAB who've been supporting you all these years. It's a matter of principle.
 
Uh ok. Times have changed indeed, but in the 90s CRAB were commonly stolen from cars and homes (during parties and such). Easy money I suppose, when you could bring them to a used CD or pawn shops. Plus people didn't have a way to get music for free like today on the internet. So true thieves would steal to sell them, and "acquaintances" would steal them because they wanted them.


Yeah I stopped loaning CRAB out a long time ago too. I'll make them a copy before I let them walk out the door with a real CD.
 
The only way to get round it, is use it to your advantage, use the net as a way of getting your name out there, and hope that people like you enough to buy tickets and come and see you.

Developing an underground die hard cult FTW

Not in the literal sense.. I'm not into that.
 
sometimes, more often than not it's the opposite. you hear horror stories all the time how indie labels like Motown and SST ****ed their signed banRAB.

at least with major labels there's increased distribution/publication, and they usually get a bigger chunk of the royalties paid.
 
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