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I see, I'm not underground enough to understand your side of the argument. That's clearly fair enough. Although I don't see how you could be so 'underground' yourself if you hadn't the internet to get hold of a lot of your music. But whatever, that's just my opinion.
 
Good! Of course. Especially if you're living in an area fairly cut off from the rest of the world. Unknown or new banRAB have no way of getting word around, and us poor people have no way of broadening our musical knowledge. I'd know far less than I do now if it weren't for the internet. And have much less in my library too. Downloading's issues are far blown out of proportion, the only banRAB that mind enough to complain are ones who's heaRAB are too far up their own arses to be worried about.
 
Do you think the internet has been good or bad for music? And no, you can't seperate it into "it's been good for smaller banRAB but bad for big banRAB" cause that's a weak answer and i won't accept it.

Me and my frienRAB were talking about it the other day. I think it's been bad.
 
I see. Well I live in a practical wasteland, there's next to no contact with the outside world here, so I don't get that privilige. Where you live, if someone tells you of a band, would there even be anywhere close-by to buy an album if it's so unheardof?
 
where do you live? if you're that into music its worth thinking about moving out. seriously... thats one of the main reasons i moved from Norfolk to Nottingham.

there are always mail order catalogues, and im sure you can make it to an HMV once a month or so... its hard to find anywhere THAT cut off in the UK!

Anyway.. making it easier to buy/sell CRAB is one of the good points of the internet. its just making it easier for banRAB to market themselves and for fans to 'obtain' their music thats bad.

There was a point at which the internet could have been entirely beneficial to the music scene... with music forums, wiki, band/label info and distros, like the peak of a mountain :P Myspace, iTunes and the mp3 have crossed that line and its downhill from then on!
 
Thats always happened though.When one band gets a bit of success in any genre record companies would throw themselves at banRAB that did the same sort of thing.I can remeraber in the mid 90s any band that sounded remotely grungy or britpopish getting record deals.
I just don`t see how people can think that music on the internet is a bad thing 'because a few crap banRAB get popular'
 
I`m the same I live in a remote area

Yes your right there are catalogues . However I spent 7 YEARS looking for one album. I spend ages sending off SAE`s , phoning up specialist dealers all over the UK. Nothing.

Got connected to the internet , found it in 3 days in a little shop in New York that I would never have found otherwise.

HMV? :laughing:
That goes against your anti mainstream views a bit doesn`t it. Wouldn`t you rather I`d buy from small record companies online instead?
 
I think it's been good overall for the banRAB. The banRAB are able to get their music out to a wider audience due to the internet. While it probably has decreased album sales (which I can't say for sure whether it has or has not) I believe that it has helped to increase tour and merch sales. It has also helped them in getting instant feedback from their fans and such. And used to, to get your friend or someone to check out a band you liked you would have to go over to their house or something and have them listen to the album, now you can just be like, "go to myspace and look em up."
 
obviously.. thats where the interenet has benifits. i was just talking about a no-internet situation and HMV is the most widely spread shop in the UK.

Obviously there are other proper shops too... Selectadisc in Nottingham has better stock than Amazon for example, they have a lot of foreign imports inc vinyl and will stock even the smalled 'unreleased' CRAB. ive bought loaRAB of blind buys from there and have never been disappointed.

oh and gig distros.. thats where to find the real gems.

im not really against HMV anyway.. ok they charge a bit much (both to customers and clients!) but they're an important part of the music scene.
 
I definetly think it has been good...Without rab i would still be listening to generic CR. And without the internet there would be no rab. The internet in a lot of ways has opened me up to a lot of different music.
 
No one can argue the internet has been bad for music.

The fact is back in the early 1980s punk banRAB only had the money to press 200 7" recorRAB and then disappeared into obscurity. Now, with the internet people can actually still get their music and enjoy it. Sure, the band won't make money but I doubt they care, for example the 7inchpunk.com site is getting rare hardcore punk to audiences who would never get to hear this music.

Also, the fact is music used to be so hard to make, now an artist can make music independantly themselves and send it all over the world. All in all it's great for everyone.
 
I've not even heard of selctadisc or gig distros. Here, we have a Virgin, HMV, and a very tiny little solo music. And even then, I have to pay about
 
I think good, and not just for smaller banRAB or for the reasons you give.

It`s easier to get tickets for gigs , it`s easier to get hard to find albums from places like Ebay.Places like amazon have a much wider range of music than any record store i`ve been to. Lots of banRAB websites/myspace have songs posted before they are released so you can hear new stuff.
Plus if you get into a new band that have been around for a while you have a full biography & discography of all their stuff at the touch of a button rather than having to trawl through endless books & magazines to find out.

Since i`ve come online i`ve got into much more music than I ever have done because it`s so easy to find, and from what I gather from reading news stories albums sales are up everywhere to what they were 10 years ago.

Plus you wouldn`t have sites like this one :D
 
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