put your $$$ where your mouth is (music)

[Eric Cartman]

PyRo, you buy 'em and they're yours. You can burn them and copy them. There are limited time downloads where you can download a song for a week and listen to it as many times as you want and then it expires and you're no longer able to play it, but that's just for sampling. I was involved in a small test of some of this technology and it was pretty interesting. Even the copies of the tracks that I burned on a cd became unreadable after they expired. When you buy the full version, it's yours to do with as you will.

A few people have mentioned that artists make very little money from CD sales and they get most of their cash from tours, so to support the artist you should go to see the shows and not bother buying the music. Don't forget that the music industry promotes artists and tours. If artists aren't promoted, then they won't be very well known. Who is going to promote a huge tour (stadium shows) for an unknown artist? If the artists are all stuck doing the local bar scene, there'll be no way for them to break out. There's a lot more involved in this issue than a lot of people seem to realize. Popular music (and by that I mean well known music, not just the pop genre) can not exist without an industry to support it. The industry can not exist without customers to support it. You have to buy music to support music.

Cheers.

[MantisMag]

Originally posted by PyRo
About buying music online, if I buy the songs from online, can I burn them onto a CD, or are they protected either electronically or legally from it?

from itunes you're allowed to have it on 3 different macs, you can burn as much as you want, and you can use it with your ipod. other services have all different terms of usage. some don't even have the same terms from song to song on the same service.

[Ov3rmind]

Originally posted by Eric Cartman
A few people have mentioned that artists make very little money from CD sales and they get most of their cash from tours, so to support the artist you should go to see the shows and not bother buying the music. Don't forget that the music industry promotes artists and tours. If artists aren't promoted, then they won't be very well known. Who is going to promote a huge tour (stadium shows) for an unknown artist? If the artists are all stuck doing the local bar scene, there'll be no way for them to break out. There's a lot more involved in this issue than a lot of people seem to realize. Popular music (and by that I mean well known music, not just the pop genre) can not exist without an industry to support it. The industry can not exist without customers to support it. You have to buy music to support music.

*claps hands* Beautifully put. The "Artists don't make any money from CDs" argument is a flawed one, and you did an excellent job showing why they DO need CDs to be successfull.

[SpongeBobSquarePants]

Originally posted by MantisMag
who buys a cd of someone they've never heard of?

I Do.

I go into best buy very often and buy bands I have never heard. I buy solo on cover apperance, name and the label they came from.

A few bands I have bought right off the shelf were, Kotton mouth Kings, Ill NINO, Dry Kill Logic, etc.

Also I can tell that any from cetrain label is good, take one of my favorites. American Recordings, thats the label system of a down is with also carrys one of my favorite bands I had never heard of until I bought the CD, which is American Head Charge.

So support music, face it we had a good free run while it lasted but it want be free just deal with it.