This topic was brought on another WebSites music forum and I was curious to know what amount is a fair amount to pay for an MP3. The majority of the responses on the other website was "zero" - most of the people who responded said they didn't want to pay anything to download an MP3. I think a dollar per MP3 is fair; eventually you are going to have to pay something to the artist anyway. I download MP3's like everyone else...I'm just trying to think of what amount I'd be willing to pay if the day came when downloading MP3's for free was history.
Oct-18-2001 21:01
{b.s.e.}
savant garde
Registered: Oct 2001
Location: The Source
Phh.
I've got my tables... I don't need to pay for MP3's.
If it came down to it, I'd just rip 'em off the vinyls..
bse
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Oct-18-2001 21:07
rock_roll18
Armin Addict To Da Core
Registered: Apr 2001
Location: Chicago
WoW
Hi,
a $ a mp3...gee...Id be broke then at the rate I am downloading mp3z
Also lets say hypothetically u do pay that ransom..on an average a CD has 15-16 songs...so ur paying the price of a cd without procuring the cd!!!
Ill say free is the way to go
Oct-18-2001 21:16
trancedance
Senior tranceaddict
Registered: Apr 2001
Location: USA
Re: WoW
quote:
Originally posted by rock_roll18 Hi,
a $ a mp3...gee...Id be broke then at the rate I am downloading mp3z
Also lets say hypothetically u do pay that ransom..on an average a CD has 15-16 songs...so ur paying the price of a cd without procuring the cd!!!
Ill say free is the way to go
I should have said $1 is just a figure off the top of my head...I'm just saying that I'd be willing to pay something; even a monthly type of subscription fee - and you'd better believe that I'd be getting my moneys worth!
Oct-18-2001 22:56
Spad
wise sage of the forest
Registered: Jun 2001
Location: Chesterfield ,UK
If I could be sure that the money was going to the artists and not the record companies or audiogalaxy/whatever then I would be willing to pay, say, 5 bucks which would entitle me to 50 downloads or something.
Oct-18-2001 23:16
JM
Supreme tranceaddict
Registered: Dec 2000
Location: Seattle, USA
2 cents/mp3...
well maybe a bit more, but i dont think it'll happen for a while that we'll have to pay for mp3's
>JM<
Oct-18-2001 23:22
b0bb0
Old skoo T/A
Registered: Mar 2001
Location: Jacksonville, Florida
It'll never be stopped so i'd be stupid to pay for them!
I support artists that i feel deserve it now .. ive got close to 4k mp3s .. thats alot of money..
But through vinyl and buying cds .. the artists i think deserve it .. get it!
Cuz its hard to filter out all the crap out there .. just think u'd pay 1 buck to hear zombie nation and realize it was gay?
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Oct-19-2001 03:54
plastikE
Chief
Registered: Jul 2001
Location: AZ
if i had no choice, then: $45939349382093405894825938534
and yes, im THAT addicted to trance lol!
Oct-19-2001 04:30
atxhorn
Senior tranceaddict
Registered: Oct 2001
Location: Austin,TX
what if it's a really long mp3? like LongLiveset.mp3 hehe
just kidding, i'd pay for a song i like,. but I end up deleting 90 percent of the stuff i dl anyway. .25 cent a good song, there mate
Oct-19-2001 05:22
Essential1
Supreme tranceaddict
Registered: Aug 2001
Location: Brampton
It wouldn't make sense to pay for mp3s because there's always a possibility that they might get deleted or lost. Also, there will always be hackers who will make them available to everyone else.
And isn't the whole point of an mp3 to listen to it so that you can buy it if you want it? THAT is what mp3s should be used for, to sample songs and make it easier to buy records. If it wasn't for mp3s, most of those online record shops would be out of business.
Oct-19-2001 05:23
Kytracid
No more subliminal shit..
Registered: Apr 2001
Location: Lost, somewhere in the breakdown...
I'd pay the electricity bill which powers my computer...that's nuff for downloading mp3z...no way i'd pay more then that.
I buy albums and support the artists by going to the shows...and I'll buy vinyls but no way am i paying for mp3z...that shit is always going to be free.
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Oct-19-2001 05:27
fastmp3
ta main sur le zbebs
Registered: Apr 2001
Location: Montreal/Canada & Casablanca/Morocco (the ROOTS of TRANCE)
Me too i support Artists by going to their shows
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