i use KaZaA to download the music you can't find in stores, mostly made with ejay-like stuff
the free music is better, because there's no need for people to like it, as long as those who made it like it, they'll upload it
who would try to sell an album with songs they know only a small group of people will like?
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"What I hate is when people talk about the "Music Industry" as if it is a poor homeless kid when in fact there swimming with money and it's because they spent endless years charging 20 quid for a CD with 2 good songs on it that there in this mess now." - LittleGuy
The thing is that now all of the industry is "swimming with money", think about the little no name bands starting off. Trying to get a break. The artist don't get a whole lot of money from their album sales. It depends on what their record deal states from their publisher, and only the biggest most successful names get a great deal out of their publishers.
I heard even the biggest of names in the industry get something like 50 cents US a record they sell. Think about having a 5 piece band getting that kind of money, that's 10 cents an record. If you sold a million record you'd only end up $100,000 each. And that's not alot when you realise how expensive equipment, and travel expenses on tour are if you gotta make it on your own.
There's plenty of music in the industry, but it doesn't all goto the artists. The record companies and publishes get alot of it.
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Well now I think decent bands should get a fare amount from thee record sales, you know, bands who can actually write and play music. While those stupid bands that just dance around to the tune of a tape someone prpeared earlier get less than 0.1%
I never thaught of it from thee bands point of view - oh well im not a band
Well, I like to think I can write, but I only know roughly enough guitar chords to form a nu-metal band. It's the bands that I think have talent that I pay for music from, but that's a matter of opinion really.
My opinion on this subject would be that I believe in the case of singles, expunging 6 dollars or more is an outrage and deserves to be pirated. If you enjoy the single of an artist, chances are (60% chance if you're an actual CD buyer in the first place) if you liked the MP3 you downloaded, you're going to get the album. That seems just as good as the chances an artist gets from their song being played on the radio.
In my opinion, the amount of anti-piracy measures the MUSIC industry (not the movie industry, I believe that no movie should be pirated unless it was to overcome import restrictions) imposes upon users is ridiculous and is going to result in them passing the bill onto the customer because of their greed. The industry is near the end of the road as far as trying to fight online music sharing goes. Once they see the light, they're going to realize "If you can't beat em, join them" and start selling music online at a reasonable price as a way to make money off of this internet music phenomenon instead of losing money from it.
Remember, those statistics they put out quoting losses aren't just from music piracy. They're for every bad business descision they've ever made. They just want to blame it on the easiest scapegoat so that they will lose the least amount of investors.
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