hi I?
quoted 2 lines Thank you for writing.
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>Thank you for writing.
Your welcome.
quoted 9 lines My point was the music industry expects, more than other industries for
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> > My point was the music industry expects, more than other industries for
> > you to fly blind.
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>Maybe there are some things one just buys on trust. I regularly buy
>magazines without looking through them in-store, just because it's a
>title I enjoy reading through and then throwing out. It has no
>lasting value; but I know that there will be some informative or
>entertainment value in it.
I buy URB regularly because I trust it's content. It is not very
probable that I would buy a magazine I have never read before if I had not
browsed through it in the store. This is the same with music. I have no
problem picking up the latest Blackalicious, or Squarepusher album among
others. This is because they have a history of not disappointing me.
Although Even with theses artist before I bought the first album from them I
had heard them through some other source.
quoted 11 lines Can you actually judge how good a whole album is going to be from 4 or
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> > Can you actually judge how good a whole album is going to be from 4 or
> > 5, 30 sec to 1 min long clips of a 50-80 min album? Or for that matter
> > how good a 7 min long song is from the first 30 seconds?
>
>Much of *my* enjoyment of music comes from just that : discovering
>the diversity of an album once I've brought it home. I don't want to
>know all of what I'm getting before I have it : that would be
>intensely boring! Allowing for that 7 minute song to develop is
>allowing the artist to speak to you. I'd hate to 'get it all' from
>the first 30 seconds. Perhaps you don't like surprises?
I don't mind surprises. I don't like bad surprises. I have had one to
many bad surprises when buying music that I have not heard before. I would
also hate to get it all before hand, I just like to have a good idea what
I'm getting myself into. With many of the artist I listen to 30 sec doesn't
provide even a bad idea. The one big exception to this is Turntablelab.com,
there previews are excellent.
One of the main reasons I am like this is because I don't have very much
extra money, and the money I do have goes to buying music. If I spend money
on a album I don't enjoy it might be the only one I able to buy for the
whole month. If I had more money maybe I wouldn't mind throwing it away as
much. I buy allot of Ramen noodles so I can buy new music :)
quoted 5 lines This is obviously a topic where there will be divided opinion and
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>This is obviously a topic where there will be divided opinion and
>it's impossible to beat people over the head with a blunt instrument
>until they come round to your point of view, so one must allow for
>that.
Of course, I am not trying to convince anyone to do anything they don't
want to. I am just giving reasons that I download music. This is contrary to
the popular "pirate" image portrayed by mainstream media. As if they have
never exploited musicians. lol.
quoted 6 lines Personally, I own about 2000 titles (spread over CD, CD-R and vinyl)
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>Personally, I own about 2000 titles (spread over CD, CD-R and vinyl)
>and while there are favourites and some I never play, they all mean
>something to me in their own way, and I'd hesitate getting rid of any
>'dead wood' because it's all part of my history. And we all make
>some mistakes in the course of our histories... don't we?
I own about 1500 titles spread over the same mediums. I love almost all
of them. There are a few exceptions with musical styles that I have grown
out of such as Punk, even though I still enjoy punk every once and awhile.
There are also a few vinyl that I have bought at thrift stores fir 10-25
cents that I don't particularly enjoy, I feel this is a risk I can take
though.
On the other hand I have about 9000 mp3 spanning over about 3000
different albums. I only like about half of them, if that. If I would have
had to buy all these albums to experience this music I would have had to buy
1500 albums I didn't particularly enjoy. Lets say the average cost of a
album is about 9$. 9 times 1500 is 13500. Thirteen thousand dollars is allot
of money to spend on music I don't like.
Like I said above I'm not trying to convince you to do things my way. You
are your own person you choose your own life. I am only offering a
alternative view of things.
zach
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