Donald Thompson said:
quoted 13 lines Hey All,> Hey All,
>
> I've been lurking here for quite awhile...but after
> all these posts I had to add my two cents. There is no
> way of getting around the fact that downloading music
> (especially full albums) is wrong. However, I believe
> there are many cases where downloading mp3's is
> alright. The first case would be remixes...nobody has
> brought this up yet! I for one do not have great
> income and I can barely afford to buy a few releases a
> month..if that. There's no way I could buy every
> release with an Autechre remix. So, do I just never
> get to hear these remixes...or do I download them?
According to the labels and artists, you just wouldn't get to hear them.
Another issue clouding this wonderfully black/white debate is the idea of
out-of-print (OOP) releases. BOC Maxima was never released in record stores,
but there are a few tapes out there. The MP3's are somewhat available.
There's no other way of getting the music, and there's no talk whatsoever of
re-releasing the album.
Now, obviously, consumers have no "right" to the music, but if an album only
exists on the used market OR as MP3, and the label refuses to do a repress,
fans and labels should expect to see dupes available (and sold/given as
dupes, no less) as there is a demand. Twoism was recently repressed, despite
most people who cared about it having already heard the mp3's. There's no
way of knowing if it affected sales or not, and warp's not releasing any
numbers, but up until that point the ONLY way to hear that release was to buy
a $300 piece o' wax from someone used or download the mp3's. Neither
solution helped the label nor the artist.
ironically, many of those OOP records still get very high prices on eBay
despite being widely available as MP3. And there's still demand for
repressing the record even after hearing the mp3's. It could be argued that
people want it MORE after hearing what's on it. Of course, the opposite
could be true, too.
derek
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