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do you think its really damaging the artist? or it is just bad for the record labels? do you usually download? i dont use to but not for an etic question it is just that i like having the originals |
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interesting question, nacmat. most of the stuff i downloaded and i actually liked, i brought afterwards. and, btw, a label like rephlex needs people who buy their releases. otherwise, there would be only mainstream stuff around. so, i think, one should support small, innovative and cool labels like rephlex... .a |
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yeah, totally. i guess every release and sold record is kind of important to rephlex, so its quite a fuck off to download rephlex stuff really. |
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I use MP3s to listen to stuff I wouldn't normally be able to afford...and then if I like it, I'll buy it... No-one is really losing here...and in fact, I think it encourages artists to keep their qulaity control high...if it's shite I ain't gonna buy it, whereas previously I'd quite often buy things on the off-chance and be dissapointed...perhaps this might lead some artists to become stuck in a creative rut, producing stuff they know would be populart but when you get that sort of thinking, I really don't feel people like that are Artists anyway...)... This kinda evens the relationship up between me as a buyer and the record company as the seller... I would like to see the ability to buy tracks directly from the artists, bypassing the RC entierly...I think thats where the future is headed, the Inet doing it's job of cutting out the middle man (DISINTERMEDIATION...oooohh..long word, simple concept...).. I have quite a few AFX MP3s I wouldn't have been able to get any other way - unreleased stuff, outofprint vinyl etc...but I feel I've given RDJ enough cash over the years that I'm sure he's not too worried about it...)... (And yeah, I also use MP3 to have a more convinient format for listening to my CDs...I guess no-one would have any problem with that...)... |
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The truth is... artists get royalties on CDs sold to stores... not to individual people. SO - its fine to download MP3's of artist you like. If you REALLY like someones music youd probably buy it anyway.. or atleast I do, if I really love it. I download a lot of music, but sometimes I buy it too, I dont think of it as me losing 15 dollars on something I could have gotten for free... Its cool. Also, if the artists is independant they get money from individual CD's so its probably better to buy their stuff no matter what..... |
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if i had money i'd buy lots of records... as i don't i buy few records and download a few others. if i had a cable connection (i have 56k) i'd donwload a lot more.... there are some great mp3 ftp sites.. |
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I download quite a few mp3s. I buy the albums that I like (and that I can actually find.) High import prices and "incomplete" releases (the American distributors of Warp are particularly guilty of that) really annoy me. I'd rather tip the artist directly. Hopefully we'll get to that point soon. |
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i downloaded kalpol intro a year ago and bought 4 ae albums afterwards, than i downloaded come to daddy and i own 4 ofx cd's and the rest will follow up soon. using morpheus and audiogalaxy i download an aphex twin or autechre song nearly every day and i buy the album of those i like just to have the originals and the other songs; |
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The ONLY IDM (dumb term, but you know what I mean...) CDs I have are Drukqs and RDJ, and it may stay that way. I'd rather have the actual, official albums... but I can't afford them. I'm broke. (that may have to do with not having a JOB, but I digress...) Whether or not it's wrong, I couldn't care less, I only live once, and I'm not wasting cash on music I can get for free. Maybe in a few years, when I've got the DeNiro, I'll start collecting albums, but I can't do it right now. I spent thousands on alternative rock and metal CDs, and I regret that... but that was before the MP3 revolution, I surely wouldn't of bought them if I had a computer at the time. And I wasn't going to tape them off someone, I despise cassettes. :-D |
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Take Opheck's post, change the fact that I do have a job, and that's exactly what I think :o) |
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