I'm troubled. I've been paying for vinyl, tapes and cd's for the last 20 years so I have no guilty concience about taking a few quid from greedy record companies.I've given them £££££££'s over the years. But I feel for artists of the future, where's the incentive? Ok, for some it's not all about money.

 

now i've literally got a jukebox that cost me 20 quid for a years subscription with every song ever recorded on it :hyper: :confused:

 

It's a double edged sword, one way i feel i've won the music lottery, the other side of me feels guilty of "stealing" but i only look for older tracks from years back which I could never get my hands on. that's how it started, now i'm addicted. :D

 

The software i'm using has "shared" tagged to all the tracks, is this a "get out clause" or something, to make me feel i'm not stealing it, jusy sharing with 4 billion of my friends?

 

i know i'm probably one of the last few on the planet to download music, and i still don't understand how all this works , but it won't stop me from the old fashioned browsing, holding it in my hand, taking it home and sticking it on. :duffer:

 

i'd like some opinions from you guys..

So Britney Spears (or whoever) has to wait slightly longer for a new private jet? Not a big deal IMHO.

 

 

I think they make money from other sources / concerts / brand extension anyway these days.

So Britney Spears (or whoever) has to wait slightly longer for a new private jet? Not a big deal IMHO.

 

 

I think they make money from other sources / concerts / brand extension anyway these days.

 

 

yes, but that's the big players. What about the little guys of the future? Will they have to gig their arses off for 10 years to stay afloat? i'm just worried wonderful talent will be lost because no money will be made from producing and crafting an "album" (maybe that word will die too) because of the costs involved which can't be redeemed. Someone somewhere needs to put something in place where as if person/persons have a driving ambition to create original music, take it to a producer , studio , spend a fortune, their investment will have a turnaround so they can keep on creating music.

as soon as record companies start taking a big loss they'll be off, as they can't take a billion or so people to court

 

 

I recently read that radiohead released an album solely online, asking fans to pay whatever they could to download it, or pay nothing at all.

Most payed nothing at all......

If Cd's DVDs were better priced there wouldn't be as much piracy.....if the Daily Rag can give them away free in a newspaper shows that they could be a lot cheaper..

Sod it and download while you can