Do you download music in the internet?

Unknown

sorry, if this is not interesting for you, but i want to discuss the problem of free music in the internet.

there are many sites where you can
download music.
You don't have to pay for it because you can find free music downloads.
there is a kind of war between singers that don't like free online music
and people that doesn't want to pay and looks for free mp3 music download

i think that music must be almost free because lot's of people just can't afford buing music and they try to dowload music for free.

may be not every music download must be free
i can't imagine one who looks for free piano music. if it is really qualitive it may cost money...

but if you download pop music you should not pay

so what is your opinion on this subject?
do you download online music

i used so many links just to check BB-code... actually i've neevr used it before...
there is nothing interesting there. don't click.

mexico39taiwan

no comment.

beardnut7

i'm usually asked if i dl music ON the internet.

in the internet....that's a new one.

are we talking like...matrix-y?

Unknown

i buy all my albums legaly, i love owning CDs

those who download are cheating the artists out of money and cheating themselfs


pirate scum...yaar

tune1shade

QUOTE (Head Full of Crazy @ May 10 2006, 11:45 AM)

i buy all my albums legaly, i love owning CDs

those who download are cheating the artists out of money and cheating themselfs
pirate scum...yaar

I would agree, however, to the best of my knowledge (which, in reality, might not be reliable or valid at all), isn't it the record company that makes the most money on the CD sales, not the artist?

QueenofthePosers

QUOTE (Head Full of Crazy @ May 10 2006, 07:45 AM)

those who download are cheating the artists out of money and cheating themselfs
pirate scum...yaar

Unless they download then buy the albums and see the bands live...or by downloading a song or two realize that they really don't like the group so why waste money on them?

Unknown

well people managed to live afew years ago before the whole illigal downloads thing took off didnt they?


its not the end of my world i spent £15 on two brendon benson albums that completely suck

nerverise9

like individual songs i do download every once in a while. but not a whole album. if i like the album enough that i want the whole thing i might as well support the artist and buy it.

women60banana

I'm a huge supporter of these guys.
http://www.musiccreators.ca/

Face it, most of us would have no clue who OK Go was if it weren't for file sharing.

thephantommilk

I do, but never whole albums and never alot.

Like when I fell in love with "million ways" on the radio I searched Ok Go on limewire and loved what I found.

Then I went and bought their CDs, knowing I would support them fully and it was fully worth it.

Many times, I will download off of iMesh, which puts licenses on things so they only work for a month and can't get onto mp3 players and such. If I like the music, I will go and buy it legally.

I dunno. I like bands such as The Offspring, who say out straight that they want to let people have thier music for free. Of course, their label made 'em change their minds, but I don't ever feel bad when downloading an Offspring song. it works out.

jedi_grrlie

I'll admit it- I'm a dirty little music pirate. I am. I have been for years.

BUT. I've noticed that the more I download stuff, the more I go out and buy stuff. Because:

1) if I really really like something, I like actually physically owning the CD. Digital music, for me at least, is such a double-edged sword. It's soooooooo easy to use MyTunes, and get all the songs you want, but if all of your music is stuck in one place, on your computer, and your computer craps out on you- what are you going to do?? That's the situation I'm in right now. And I like listening to records all the way through. You lose something by skipping aroud in iTunes rather than listening to a physical CD or vinyl and the way the music moves. There's a reason the artist/band puts the songs in that particular order, and I like listening to that order, especially when I first start listening to the band. Does that make sense?

Damian talked about this whole "nobody listens to vinyl/CDs anymore" thing and how tragic it is in this really lovely interview.

and

2) downloading really is the only way I can get exposed to new stuff that I like. All that really plays on the radio where I live is mainstream crap and I have no interest in that any more. So how am I supposed to get interested in a band and want to buy their album without hearing them in the first place? And listening to one or two songs off of MySpace or those little demos that you hear when you scan the song in the music store tells you NOTHING. I am much more likely to go out and buy an album when I've heard a good chunk of it, at least five songs. I mean, you wouldn't buy a car without trying it out. You wouldn't buy a pair of jeans without trying them on. You don't invest in something without checking it out first.

Okay, maybe the car analogy is taking it a little too far. But think about how much time, effort, and money people put into developing their music collections. Music is such a personal thing for so many people, and you spend your whole lifetime collecting songs and records that you love. So maybe it's not that far-fetched to say that buying music is some kind of investment.

And the main reason I download is to be exposed to new stuff, not because I'm cheap and don't feel like shelling out the $15.


I'm not saying that music piracy should be legal or that it's a good thing or anything like that. All I know is that the more I download, the more I find bands that I love, and the more likely I am to go see them, buy their records, buy their stuff. That's what happened with me and OK Go. And, yeah, I'm not going to fall completely in love with every band I download in the same way that I fell in love with OK Go. But if 100 people download your album, and only 1 person falls desperately in love with it, well- isn't that one more diehard fan who is going to buy your stuff, see your shows, talk you up to their friends? And isn't that, as an artist, worth it?

(Also, music, you have read Damian's NY Times op-ed on DRM, copyright protection, and file sharing, right? That article changed my life. Well, maybe not really. But it blew me away.)

/rant

tune1shade

I do share music with my friends and download offline (my friend has limewire, so she's my music god as of right now).

However, I tend to download one or two songs, then, as others above have stated, go out to buy the CD, LP, &c. and, if I still like them, obsess and go to shows and become a total and complete groupie. It's just what I do.

I don't know, I don't see anything really wrong with downloading music offline, as long as it's not abused and one invests at least a part of his or her time helping bands get publicity. I mean, I listen to music online, then spread it to my friends who either 1) go to shows with me or 2) buy the CD themselves.

Meh, as long as it doesn't destroy the music industry or discourage talented artists from making music, I'm alright with it.

woodmaid8

QUOTE (mixtape @ May 10 2006, 04:55 PM)

I'm a huge supporter of these guys.
http://www.musiccreators.ca/

Face it, most of us would have no clue who OK Go was if it weren't for file sharing.

It's true, I heard OK Go off of my friend's ipod, and he heard it off of a video game. He downloaded it because he liked it. Had there not been downloading, he probably would have been like, "that song is cool," and just moved on. That's how I find all my new music: by giving a new artist a chance and download some of their stuff. If I wasn't able to test out music, I wouldn't buy half the cds I do. I downloaded You're So Damn Hot and Don't Ask Me long before I ever bought the albums.

rain7look

I download music, but once I get around to having enough money, I go buy the album, then delete all the songs I downloaded.

But you have albums that you can't upload to your computer (Kings of Leon's Aha Shake Heartbreak, for example). If you do, it sounds like a bird took it's beak to the CD.

jedi_grrlie

QUOTE (Jaded @ May 13 2006, 10:19 PM)

I download music, but once I get around to having enough money, I go buy the album, then delete all the songs I downloaded.

Yeah, that's what I do. Or I'll go out and buy another of their albums, so I don't feel so bad about having the downloaded one, haha.

wall2run

I don't download music online because the people that I listen to actually need the money. I would have no problem downloading some song from an artist who has mansions and millions of dollars. Greedy bastards.


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jedi_grrlie

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vinyl_days

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