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Support Djs by purchasing their Albums

How many of you actually go out there and buy CDs?

When it comes to trance music, I gather that Djs are making money on their performances and not actual CD sale. Please do correct me if I'm wrong. I don't exactly know how the industry functions.

Nevertheless, the question is, is it worth support artist by buying their Cds. (Dance music people..dance...lets not go into Metallica or Sum 51 cds)

To be honest, I havn't bought a single album in...forever. All these file sharing programs and websites introduced me to the trance music. I have about dozen GU cds, 5 Tiesto albums, 3 Oakenfolds, and about 60 other compalations ranging from Trance Energy to Sensation to Cream. Can't say I'm proud, but there are websites where you just click a button and you can download the entire album for free, which costs about the price of a ticket to SEE the person live at a club.

oh well, enough of me
What are your thoughts?

for the record, I'm buying next Nick Warren's GU album. I guess its a good thing after all. (btw, I'm in Toronto and Trance music isn't exactly something you can easily came by. Preaty much like religion. 95% hate trance, the other 5% LOVE IT!!!!

well thing is...buying cds will help the scene alot more. i mean it will help the labels (so they wont get shut down) and they will help the producers (Maybe L-Vee wont be a cry baby and quit)

At the end of the day, Who is going to wax 15 sniffs on a CD when you got a mouse, computer screen, a Hard Drive and a little thing called Cable.

Off course people will say it because of people like you that the buisness is going down, unfortunalty another 1000000000000 are at it.

Laterz, im off to burn new warren underground, Cha Ching.

Oh by the way, i got about 100 real CDs which i have bought, 15 gu too

On the major labels artists get something like 6 cents for every cd sold, I know on independent, local labels, its more than that, anyone know how much it is for like gu etc? I mean, buying a cd may not even help the artist out that much.

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Originally posted by Nadi On the major labels artists get something like 6 cents for every cd sold

Hahahahah.....it's more than that closer a dollar

i first use the file sharing programs to download the cd's. if i like em, i go out to the store (mostly e-stores) and buy the real cd's. if i dont like the cds, i dont buy them.
i dont want to purchase something i dont like.. it would be a waste of money, something i do not have enough of..
what are they bashing about mp3 and file sharing? in my case, it helped them selling about 7 albums which i otherwise would not have purchased.....

distibute some trance albums in France and I'll have a chance to buy them

Personally I have a load of Trance CDs, simply cause I am addicted to buying them, ie like some of your are to buying vinyl. Sometimes I will buy 5 or 10 CD singles of ebay in one go, of rare singles. I pretty much have all the artist albums, like Ayla's,Tiesto's, BT, two Chicane ones (Worth every penny) etc... So for me its not a problem, just where to get the next �10 to buy next one. I guess its not too bad for me living in the UK so I can get most of these CD's easily.



Also I only have 56K, half the time I just cant b bothered downloading the full album, takes too long, so it might be a different case if I had Cable.

Ive only got about 8 artist albums, but thats cos its so fupping hard to get them in Ireland (could only get In My Memory, ISOS 3 and Behind The Sun, even though Airdrawndagger is floating around). I do most of me trance shopping in foreign airports

I wouldn't say I have an extremely vast collection of albums, but I do reach for my pocket and support the artists, which I love and admire.

also don't forget to support your fav djs when they come to your town , go see them play

i'm another of those dudes that hardly buys any cds.. it's almost impossible to find trance here in cd stores, when i see one i buy it (This means in the last two years or so, I've bought Trancemaster 3002 and pvd's Politics of Dancing - i dont even liked those two). Of course there is internet to purchase cds online, but i dont feel like asking my parents to use credit card on the internet - the answer is "dont you get enough music from the net" So.. it's not enough for an excuse, but you get the point.

I don't buy CDs, I never have. Even before MP3s. But, I will ALWAYS see the DJ if he's playing in TO. As for the arguement that MP3s lower artist's income - that's total bull. MP3s are the best way of advertising, if not for MP3s I still would be listening to top 40 crap. Because after all, here in Canada trance isn't played on the radio, therefore the only way to expose yourself to this music is to actually D/L the mp3, or see the DJ spin .

Dont touch cd's, especially not compilaton cd's, as most of the tracks I usually dont like.

I do support by buying 12"s of any track I really like, and I only keep mp3's of tracks I like, so I hardly have any mp3's that arent actually legal (they are legal if you own the cd or record right?)

Fneh.

I buy my CD's. Compliations or Artist albums. If I can't get them then ONLY then I will go and download them.

If record companys made their CD's more available then maybe people wouldnt download them and their profits would go up (maybe).

Most singles I download so I can buy the vinyl.

I can understand why people dont go and buy them. I think burns put it best:

"At the end of the day, Who is going to wax 15 sniffs on a CD when you got a mouse, computer screen, a Hard Drive and a little thing called Cable."

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Originally posted by PointyDC Hahahahah.....it's more than that closer a dollar

actually....I think most bands out there signed to labels would orgasm in their pants if they were getting a buck a cd. It's actually near 10-15 cents. check out this article by Steve Albini....http://www.negativland.com/albini.html


EDIT: Also, how much money does L-Vee make every gig? He's a pretty famous guy so I figure atleast 10 grand per gig. How many gigs does he do a year? I'm assuming atleast 20 so I figure he makes at the min. 200 000 USD a year on gigs alone. Yeah. I'm sure all the internet piracy is making you live on welfare buddy....

Beleive me, Record Labels don't take that big of a loss on internet DLing. It may be different with "Trance" labels but for the major labels, they don't take a hit at all.


EDIT #2: Also, if the labels are pinning all their hopes on 12" sales, then I'm pretty sure they are fucking morons. Consider this. I like the track Tiesto - Flight 643. I wanna go buy it. I'm not a DJ. new vinyl around here is like 10 bucks CDN!!! Now way in Hell am I going pay 10 bucks for 4 tracks at the most. That is a ripoff. Considering new CDs here cost about 15 bucks and 15 bucks is still to high. Maybe it's time all the record companies reevaluate their business plans....

I buy vinyls from time to time. The problem is not that I dont want to buy them, it's that they're hard to find here and their expensive ($15 a single) With the amount of trance that gets released it's impossible to afford it as a 17 year old. Not to mention I have to wait like 2 months after the songs release before I can actually find it.

I download mp3's. I also buy CD's when i can, however that is quite rare.

Here in Calgary none of the big stores (HMV, A&B Sound) carry a lot of electronic music. If i walk into the store they might have one or two CD's per artist, and always the ones i don't want. I don't have the time or the energy to travel the city looking for CD's, or the money for that matter. I'll buy CD's of the good ones, but i'm not going to go and spend $20-$25 for 1 CD with 10 tracks on it (haven't been looking at CD's lately, might be off) every time i have the money, or risk that kind of money on a bad CD.

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Originally posted by Nightflowers distibute some trance albums in France and I'll have a chance to buy them

And when i find a trance album is very expensive(taxes) and not good enought to pay to it.

I buy artist albums. Most trance producers dont put out artist albums often, but when they do.. first I sample them on mp3 and if I really like the album then I'll go on Amazon and order it. Why do I buy it when I can just burn it to CD? I'd rather have the authentic CD with the original covers and everything. Makes me feel proud. It also looks better on your CD rack than having a whole row of white CD's.

Let's see

I own gu011,012,013,014,015,018,020,023
Nubreed 2,4 GuLightsOut 1
All the Paul Van Dyk Albums..(45rpm,Seven Ways,VDT,OTAB,POD,Global)
Banco De Gaia - 10 Yrs
Paul Oakenfold - Cream 2 yrs
all three hybrid albums signed...wider angle (actually two seperate albums)..plus the remix album
Coldcut - Journey's By DJ's
ISOS 3
Sasha - Xpander EP, Airdrawndagger
Sander Kleinenberg - Essential Mix
Leftfield - Leftism and Rhythm and Stealth
Kenny Larkin - Metaphor
Plus a bunch more..

have my gu024 ordered on amazon.ca plus the adam freeland tectronics disc

comes out tuesday

so I'd like to think I support artists...plus I refuse to download albums. If I want an album, I go buy it.

I own a couple hundred cd's afterall, I got ones from the 90s like Let me be your fantasy & Born slippy, and after all this time, i still got the cd & feel proud, having it on mp3 is fine, but nothing beats owning it properly

I own underworld - beaucoup fish
trance nation 3
tranceport 1

damn proud to own all 3 of the Real McCoy Albums!....WOOOOT!

rofl...those were the days...hehehe

dr.alban - best of 1990-1997
-if you look closely you see jam and spoon on the credits as keyboardists.

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And when i find a trance album is very expensive(taxes) and not good enought to pay to it.

Quit your crying!. I buy cd's..so what they cost money...i still buy them. You don't hear me complaining about it....grow up. You don't have enough money...then simply don't buy them or download them...or trade the cd's you have to a used cd store. Heck...those are goldmines imo.

I have GU006, GU009, GU013 and GU021. I'm getting GU024 once it comes out.

I also have Nubreed's 002-006.

Airdrawndagger, Wider Angle and MMII also.

I rarely DL albums; only when I'm not sure about the artist. Then if I like it, I buy it.

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