Do you buy CD's?Music 

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Do you buy Cd's?

  • Yes, I always buy Cd's

    Votes: 15 22.4%

  • Yes, but only after dowloading a few songs from the album first

    Votes: 27 40.3%

  • Yes, If it is an artist of which I already own several albums

    Votes: 9 13.4%

  • No, Downloading music is free and much easier

    Votes: 12 17.9%

  • No, I can't afford Cd's

    Votes: 4 6.0%
  • Total voters
    67
sicbeing
I only DL music. I don't buy any. I don't DL much mainstream music, mostly old stuff, and single tracks, never a whole CD. Most new CD's only have one DECENT dong on it anymore. I agree with the statement most music made now adays is utter garbage. "oh, hot new teen with no singing voice? here are some lyrics and a record contract, dont get pregnant!"
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I wouldnt feel bad stealing music away from artists who don't deserve a god damn penny.


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Congratz self for accidentally hitting reply instead of edit and making 2 posts.

1 Point for me.
 
VIPFREAK
Hell no! why?? I don't want to have to deal with that ****. Beside I'm a singles collector not albums. And my ass $0.99 is not a rip off for one song. :rolleyes:
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So, when you're a professional musician, you'll charge $0.50? Or what?

You'd pay 99 cents for a Big Gulp without thinking twice about it, and you'll drink in 10 minutes and its gone. But the 99 cent song you will listen to again and again and again... and regardless of that, it's still the intellectual property of the musicians that you're stealing just as if you walked out of the 7-11 with your Gulp without paying.

If a song isn't worth a buck THEN DON'T FREAKING RIP IT. But you have no right to steal it. This offhand, self-righteous attitude over something that is CLEARLY theft just makes me want to puke.
sicbeing
I wouldnt feel bad stealing music away from artists who don't deserve a god damn penny.
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If it isn't worth a lousy dollar, why would you want to own it in the first place?!
 
Duke
If it isn't worth a lousy dollar, why would you want to own it in the first place?!
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Artists tend to typically make 10-20 cents I do believe per CD Sold. Why go through all the trouble buying one song for 99 cents when I can just download it and be done with it within a week?

And you have to keep in mind I don't download the newest hits from last week, I don't like new music, and I think that's what napster / etc is all about, the new music. I'm not going to pay 1 dollar to hear something you can't even hear on any radio station around my area anymore.

I'll let you know though, I did try Rhapsody when it was 9+ something a month (i hear its free now¿), anyway that didn't last long because I felt I wasn't on the computer enough.

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in case youre wondering what i -do- download, is bass and techno, like bass remixes or 90's club dance stuff.
 
I download some songs, but only a few. I mean if I'm not really a fan of the band but I really like one of their songs I'll just download it. But if I like the band I'll go ahead and buy the CD. Plus new releases are usally on sale at Best Buy for 10 bucks.
 
sicbeing
Artists tend to typically make 10-20 cents I do believe per CD Sold.
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More than that. But that's only in the big record companies. Then again those companies practically do everything for an artist, besides the actual song writing. They pay for the studios, they pay for the record pressing, they pay for the managing, they pay for the marketing, etc etc. Those artists pay most of their sales to the record company for them to take the work out of their hands. Any independent artist who does all the work himself gets much more profit per cd sold. Of course it will cost ya when outsourcing certain services to another company (record company).


So if you don't buy an album of an artist on a big label he will get dropped, lose all the marketing, will have to spend time he could have been recording on managing every aspect of being an artist.
 
Duke
So, when you're a professional musician, you'll charge $0.50? Or what?

You'd pay 99 cents for a Big Gulp without thinking twice about it, and you'll drink in 10 minutes and its gone. But the 99 cent song you will listen to again and again and again... and regardless of that, it's still the intellectual property of the musicians that you're stealing just as if you walked out of the 7-11 with your Gulp without paying.

If a song isn't worth a buck THEN DON'T FREAKING RIP IT. But you have no right to steal it. This offhand, self-righteous attitude over something that is CLEARLY theft just makes me want to puke.

If it isn't worth a lousy dollar, why would you want to own it in the first place?!
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:rolleyes: So... ok what is recording radio or streaming music directly into mp3 format from my Mp3 player?? :dopey: I don't d/l illegally anymore and if I do it's only because it's so damn underground.
 
I used to buy CDs, but I haven't bought one in long time now. There is only one dedicated record shop in my town that I know of. Kmart and the likes stock the Top 40, but we all know that's just 100% garbage. But now the said record shop is heading in the direction of Kmart and only stocking what is "cool". I've been in there countless times to buy a CD and came out empty handed, simply because there's nothing to buy there.

And anything half decent they might stock needs to be ordered in and I gave up waiting 2-3 weeks for them to order it in a single freaking CD.

Silverzone
well, first off. I am really really against music pirating, and p2p networks. illegal downloading is killing the industry. If you only download music, you are helping the industry die. I know that the industry is still rich, but that wont last long if no one buys music legitimately. I dont download music, I wont steal a cd from the store, Im not going to steal one digitally.
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Killing the industry? I take it your just blindly believing the RIAA instead of the actual facts.

P2P increases record sales. How? Person A recommends Person B a band to listen to. Person B has never heard anything by such band and they aren't likely to race down to the record store and buy a $20 CD for an album they mightn't like. P2P allows users to easily (and freely) sample bands they've never heard of and if they like them, buy an album. I know I wouldn't be listening to half the bands I listen to nowadays if it weren't for P2P and I wouldn't have bought as many albums.
 
I'll put it this way: it is not because I download music that I don't buy more CD's.
 
If it weren't for P2P, Marilyn Manson wouldn't have gotten $119 of my cash. Well, more including posters.
 
Okey, what do you say to this, Duke (and other anti p2p-people):

I am a college student (or will be this fall). I need to pay for tuition and other expenses. I don't have time for a job, because of my studies, so I hagve no spare cash. I love music, and want to hear good new music, but I have no money to buy CDs, so I download them (for free). If I don't download them, I have to listen to the radio, and sit through tons of ads and talk and other songs that are played the crap out of, which really irks me.

Downloading music illeagly is a free source of joy. I don't want to go through college listening to the same old music, I'll be bored as it is, and I don't want to be more bored.

Well, that made no sense at all, so you chew on that and come up with a response that will blow my case out of the water and have the FBI at my door and me be a laughing stock.

And I am aware of the hightened risks of downloading music on a college campus.

(Oh, and the 99Cents per song, that's B.S, since they are of terrible quality. 128kbps my ass...)
 
I too know how much college tuition costs, but that still doesn't give you the right to download music illegally. I'm not "Anti-P2P", but there is no sense in what you're saying.

Unfortunately, I can't afford that brand new Aston Martin DB9 on the lot. I have no cash, but I love driving. I have to drive a lackluster Prius and it's really pissing me off. So, instead of buying that DB9, I'll just steal it.

Oh, the pure bliss it will be.
 
yeah, I know. I realized that halfway through writing it... I didn't want all that typing to go to waste.

Whatever. I'm still going to download music illegally. Nothing you can say or do about it.
 
Unfortunately, I can't afford that brand new Aston Martin DB9 on the lot. I have no cash, but I love driving. I have to drive a lackluster Prius and it's really pissing me off. So, instead of buying that DB9, I'll just steal it.
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There's a slight difference. You download a song, no one has any real physical loss, as chances are you wouldn't have bought it anyway. Take a car, and some one will miss it. There is also a difference between stealing a few tracks of music, and a car worth an utter crap load.
 
Event
yeah, I know. I realized that halfway through writing it... I didn't want all that typing to go to waste.

Whatever. I'm still going to download music illegally. Nothing you can say or do about it.
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I'm not sure about that. Isn't discussing it against the AUP? :nervous:
 
911_Carrera
I'm not sure about that. Isn't discussing it against the AUP? :nervous:
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No, just divulging where and how to get it.
 
There's a difference between admission, and encouraging/ advising how and where to download. If I made a topic about speeding drivers, and said that I once went 6 mph over the limit (70mph), would you complain then?
 
code_kev
There's a difference between admission, and encouraging/ advising how and where to download. If I made a topic about speeding drivers, and said that I once went 6 mph over the limit (70mph), would you complain then?
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I guess I was just interpreting the AUP incorrectly then. Thanks for clearing it up.
 
Viper Zero
Unfortunately, I can't afford that brand new Aston Martin DB9 on the lot. I have no cash, but I love driving. I have to drive a lackluster Prius and it's really pissing me off. So, instead of buying that DB9, I'll just steal it.

Oh, the pure bliss it will be.
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The next thing you'll be saying is that downloading a music is like taking a people's life or something... :rolleyes:
 
So I bet all you folks who are against downloading music are against copying CD's, too, right? I mean that's stealing too.
 
Event
So I bet all you folks who are against downloading music are against copying CD's, too, right? I mean that's stealing too.
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Not if your copying your own CDs to personal use.
 
Event
So I bet all you folks who are against downloading music are against copying CD's, too, right? I mean that's stealing too.
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My experience tells me that a great percentage of the people who come out and say that downloading this and that is wrong, are hypocrite.

But regarding the AUP and this, I won't go any further.
 
DiabolicalMask
My experience tells me that a great percentage of the people who come out and say that downloading this and that is wrong, are hypocrite.

But regarding the AUP and this, I won't go any further.
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I never said it was wrong. Are you calling me a hypocrite? I do do it.
 

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