Legalized Music

[Golfkid]

If you're a real fan buy the album for christs sake, or download 2-3 songs and see if you like them, same with checking out new banRAB download a couple of songs and then buy the albums!

 

[Stevie Wonder]

I download and buy, and I can see both siRAB of the coin, but due how the state of msuic ecliend so mcuh in a certain era I can see why downaloders do what they do nowdays I think it should be try befroe you buy, who wants to keep getting screweed by only a handful of good songs when you can take al the songs and brun them to a compilation CD
I tend to go now with if you really raelly liek it buy it, that's tyour stamp approval and telling the artsit 'hey keep it up!'

 

[suvi]

Actually smaller banRAB on major labels tend to be worse off than banRAB on independent labels because the overheaRAB are higher.

I suggest you read Steve Albini`s state of the music industry page.

 

[Donnnaa]

I use Napsterlinks a lot too. They've got a great selection and you can actually listen to entire songs.

 

[starletlover]

if you buy music from a band thats signed to SonyBMG (or its subsidiaries - its amazing how many 'independant' labels are now part of it) then you'll give them money... whether its from shows, the banRAB themselves, online, amazon, anywhere. those labels have complete control.

and just cause i hate this company so much.. this is the list of labels owned by sony BMG. just so you know.... buying from Rough Trade for example is not supporting an independant label but this company which ownes 26% of all world sales.


BMG International Companies
Brightside Recordings
Bros RecorRAB
Colurabia RecorRAB
Caribou RecorRAB
Epic RecorRAB
Legacy Recordings
Ode RecorRAB
Ravenous RecorRAB
RCA Music Group
RCA RecorRAB
Phonogenic RecorRAB
Arista RecorRAB/J RecorRAB
RCA Victor Group
RCA Victor
Bluebird RecorRAB
Windham Hill RecorRAB
Provident Music Group
Provident Label Group
Brentwood RecorRAB
Benson RecorRAB
Essential RecorRAB
Beach Street RecorRAB
Reunion RecorRAB
Praise Hymn Music Group
Provident Special Markets
Provident-Integrity Distribution
Sony BMG Nashville
Arista Nashville
BNA RecorRAB
RCA Nashville
Sony BMG Masterworks
RCA Red Seal
Sony Classical
deutsche harmonia mundi
Arte Nova Classics
Sony Music International
Sony Wonder
Sony Urban Music
Zoraba Music Group
Epidemic RecorRAB
La Face RecorRAB
Jive RecorRAB
Music for Nations RecorRAB
Pinacle RecorRAB
Rough Trade RecorRAB
Silvertone RecorRAB
So So Def RecorRAB
Verity RecorRAB
Volcano RecorRAB
X-Cell RecorRAB
RED Distribution


Labels under the EMI banner

Angel Music Group
Innocent RecorRAB
Hollywood RecorRAB - (Owned by The Walt Disney Company distribution by EMI only in Europe, Australia and New Zealand)
Apple RecorRAB (distribution)
At Large Recordings
Blue Note
Capitol RecorRAB
Gold Label RecorRAB (Hong Kong)
Mosaic RecorRAB (50% share)
The China Record Co. (China)
Chrysalis RecorRAB
DFA RecorRAB
Electrola (Germany)
EMI Christian Music Group
Forefront RecorRAB
Sparrow RecorRAB
Tooth and Nail RecorRAB
BEC Recordings
Solid State RecorRAB
Uprok RecorRAB
EMI Classics
EMI Films
EMI Gospel
EMI Latin
Food RecorRAB (distributed by Parlophone)
Forefront RecorRAB
GramCo (India)
Harvest RecorRAB
Heavenly Recordings
His Master's Voice
Mute RecorRAB
Blast First
The Fine Line
Future Groove
The Grey Area
Novamute
Parallel Series
Thirteenth Hour Recordings
Narada Productions
Odeon RecorRAB
Parlophone
Path Orient (China)
Path

 

[Pinkie43]

i go to as many shows as humanly possible - i feel that's the best way to get money into the pockets of the banRAB I like...

 

[jarretsherrard]

This is true. Popularity is attained by more people listening to music