I agree 100%, it's that tricky ethics part, where people don't feel they
should pay for those albums that they like. Most records stores will
offer a turntable to listen first. Most label sites have samples. It's
should be this way. I'd never suggest that people should buy first,
listen later. The problem is still with people believing "It's my right
to download whatever I want and not support anything."
I still find it ironic that people are willing to pay for interent
access (to giant multi-nationals) to download free albums, but not
support the artist directly. ???
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> From: EggyToast [mailto:eggy@eggtastic.com]
> One of the things that sold me on early idm purchases of mine
> ("Stay Down,"
> "music has the right to children") were the 2 minute samples
> up on Warp's
> site. Of course, not every label has the means to do such a
> thing, but I
> think it's rather short sighted for anyone to assume people
> should just buy
> an album of music for enjoyment without knowing if they enjoy
> it. Music is
> the only medium I can think of where you're forced to buy
> something whose
> only purpose is personal enjoyment without even the option of
> sampling a
> small portion -- at least with movies, you can rent them from
> somewhere first
> for cheap, or download trailers for free.
>
> I've never been one to say that mp3's are the consumer's
> right to have, or
> that downloading full albums and listening to them all the time to the
> exclusion of owning the actual album is right, but they
> certainly can have a
> purpose that labels can use to their advantage in their current form.
>
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