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| quote: | Originally posted by dj_moonshine
well i do but at the same time i buy music. my collection consists of 10%mp3's and 90% original cd's. not everyone has to be like me, but all im saying is what if u were a superstar dj and the next thing u know is that no one is buying your music, how would you feel? im saying that i feel its not right to download music and save money, the artist/dj works his ass off so he/she should get credit. but once again, if its not ur thing, u dont have to go that way. peace |
Hell I'd be honored that people were enjoying my music in the first place.
When it comes to EDM tracks, they usually come in two flavors: vinyl, which includes about 98% of all released EDM, and CD singles, which probably accounts for about %2 of released EDM and usually consists of big, hit tracks - in which case you (the artist behind a big, hit track) shouldn't be worrying about raking in the cash for it anyways. As for vinyl, I'm guessing 9 out of 10 vinyl purchases are by DJ's, and the remaining 1 to real enthusiasts (if not less). Power to them, but for the average listener buying vinyl all the time is an incredible hassle. Besides having to hunt all across creation for many tracks, vinyl wears down, warps, melts, scratches, collects dust, and also wears needles, which must be replaced. It's also a hassle to dig through record after record looking for a tune you want to hear, take it out, put it on the platter, start it, listen, put it back, repeat. Its much much easier to just double click and listen, and too much a hassle for most people to try and rip a whole record collection to mp3.
The thing is, there's some sort of misconception in this day and age that musicians are entitled to grossly large sums of capital for their work. Not just musicians, but most great artists over the years weren't basking in luxury like today's worthless pop icons. Mozart and Beethoven were plagued with financial problems all their life, as was Van Gogh, Rembrandt, and Michaelangelo - and thats just who I found from quick googling. Now I'm all for supporting the artist, and I buy vinyl anyways since I DJ. But I don't have the money, time or means to purchase the music I like legally even half the time - there's simply no good alternative. And all these "starving artists" need to wake up and smell reality, that because there's no good alternative, most of the people who download their music wouldn't have bought it anyways. Unlike they'd have you beleive, this doesn't cost them 1 red cent. It costs them revenue they may have otherwise received, but when an artist starts demanding that all these dirty music theives cough up revenue they might have gotten.... well, theres a word for that - Greed. It's different from going into a CD shop and jacking an album, because that album is a physical thing, it cost the label money to be burned, printed, and shipped, and it cost the CD shop money to purchase them from the label. When it's stolen, that one individual copy is gone forever and the CD shop has lost money. But, when you download an mp3 you aren't depriving anyone of physical property, you're just copying a pattern of 1's and 0's from another computer to yours.
Hell, I'd imagine that more CD's were bought BECAUSE of mp3 sharing than would have been without it. Up until about 4 years ago, I had purchased a grand total of about 3 CD's in my lifetime, all of which were just for one track (and 2 of which I sold because I'd grown tired of that one track - except the Butthole Surfers album, which rules  ). Then one day I borrwed a burned CD with photoshop on it from a friend of mine... while poking around on it I found a little folder labled "tranceport" (yeah I know it was a pretty bleh CD, but some of the tracks on there are still really great, and at the time it completely blew my fucking mind). Thanks to that blaitant act of piracy I've now bought many times as many CD's in the last year or so than I've bought in my whole life prior. And now I have turntables and will be spending lots of money on records.
Oh well, like I said before, until I can download a full quality ogg or mp3, no DRM attached, with the ability to re-download what I've already paid for (in case of HD crash or something), for $0.99-ish a track, then I'll continue to download mp3s.
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Last edited by nrjizer on Mar-27-2004 at 21:43
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