--- Pete Edwards <latah_skatah@yahoo.com> wrote:
quoted 4 lines hmmm, there's a big difference between you taping
> hmmm, there's a big difference between you taping
> cindy lauper songs off of eagle 106 when you're a kid
> and 320 mp3 rips of small time releases, dontcha
> think?
Depends on how much money you have. When I was a teen, I used to make
tapes from the college station whenever I had spare time because I didn't
have money to buy tapes. When I found something I really liked, I went to
the record store as soon as I got money for it. It was always a matter of
availability and finances that kept me from buying new music. I don't
have enough money to buy more than 2 or 3 cds a month, (which is still
more than a lot of people I know spend on music) so I know nobody is
losing money from my music listening habits. Wait, I take that back.
There are artists losing money from my new music listening habits:
Musicians that suck. I feel like mp3s have empowered me as a consumer to
make wiser choices at the record store. No more of those weekends where I
take my hard-earned money up to some record store and buy a cd by some
group that got great word-of-mouth praise on this list only to go home and
realize that it completely sucks. No more buying a compilation and
hearing two great songs by a group, then going out and getting their CD
and realizing those are the only two good songs on it. Wiser choices in
the record store mean more money for the artists that I feel deserve it,
therefore empowering me to empower the artist that earned my respect and
love in the first place.
These guys that feel like they are "getting one over on society" by
collecting and sharing massive amounts of mp3s most likely wouldn't be
buying music in the first place if it wasn't for file-sharing. These
people are mostly into file-sharing, not music listening. These people
unwittingly make money for record companies when they share music that I
like enough to purchase. They are doing for free what many record labels
pay a lot of money to radio stations to do: Publicize the music and
spread the word. Philosophically, I hate these mooches with their T-3s
and 80gb hard-drives full of albums they didn't pay for, but I've been
extremely happy with the last 40 or 50 cds I've bought so far this year
because of them.
And as an amateur musician, I like that eventually there might be more out
there like me that just like to dabble with unfamiliar music that are
sitting on a respected file-sharer's hard drive. Who knows, maybe an
amateur like me will develop a little group of listeners because one of my
song titles caught their eye. It levels out the playing field a little
bit for amateur musicians and labels like Warp that don't have the money
to play the payola game in the U.S.
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