I still buy CDs and vinyl all the time - I buy DVDs - I buy books - I buy
computer games. What will eventuate of your purely digital music
collection ? I mean once all your HD's fail and your ipod croaks and you
get sick of spooled DVDr's / blu ray discs full of backed up music.
What with Oink being taken down this issue has come to the fore again -
were there many Oink people on the list? Personally I thought it was
invaluable in that it was an impressive archive of music reaching back to
the 1950's etc - but also found that old bulletin board mentality amongst
users - in that they have some bloated sense of status due to a ratio
system and feeling some kind of vague importance for having been the first
person to leak an unreleased record or upload something they have just
bought.
This arrogance used to be reserved only for the smug assholes 10 yrs ago
who ran record shops and felt so superior for sitting on the other side of
the counter.
I saw my releases on Oink quite often and didn't really think anything
more than it being publicity - and we all have to have faith that if
someone likes something enough they will at least consider buying it ...
unfortunately the truth is that most people have just become inherently
lazy about anything and everthing in life. The scary thing is that the
layperson has accepted that it is morally ok to download anything from the
internet because 'everyone else does' - it is just group mentality - if
you jump an intersection on a red light - most people will just follow
blindly because the person infront is doing the same.
In a country like Australia the results of people downloading all of their
forms of entertainment illegitimately from the internet can be seen by the
insane pricing of games / DVDs / music - also movie ticket prices are
phenomenal. I ain't no tight arse on my moral high horse, but this whole
debate is a huge litmus indicator showing more about the general fibre of
society currently .. people really don't give a fuck about the long term
effects of fulfilling their own little selfish wants and needs in the
short term.
Tim K.
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