Downloading

I always download music if I want to check out a band, and if I like it I end up buying their albums. If it wasn't for downloading, most of the bands I love now I wouldn't have even heard them.

I walk a thin line myself sometimes but I like living on the edge. Explosions and suprises.My avatar says it all.


Edited by Vibrationbaby - February 24 2009 at 12:47

C`mon what was it. We`re men. We can take it.

Alberto Muñoz wrote: Pnoom some admins hidden your caricature post

Well yes, if you get permission from the band, it's legal.

That goes for studio albums, too, though.  Bootlegs aren't a special category.

I always try to buy what I download and like. Not always immediately afterwards because that isn't always possible, but sooner or later. Some stuff is really hard to find and some I might never find at all, but I try. I spend a lot of money (a lot more than I can afford, really) on records every month. I feel I'm morally obliged to.

Do the laws differ for bootlegs/unofficial live albums?

I'm guessing the same applies with live as standard records.But I wouldn't have a problem at all with downloading live tracks that weren't up for official release.

I wonder if bands setting up a paypal option on their sites would generate any decent revenue. Is it possible some guilty P2Pers might pony up some cash to the groups they've discovered and come to love ?

I think if I was Pure Reason Revolution and I found out my crucial 2nd album was being bandies around the internet for free I'd probably pack it all in.

You know, VB, the thing is the thrill is still there. I am sure that even living in the biggest city in the world with the most extensive variety of music to be found in a large amount of retail outlets can compare to the wealth that the internet provides.
Oasis, back then, Frank's music, Spin-It, Passage, all had a big selection of used and new vinyl. And it was not restricted to the top 40 of the day. Indeed, Frank's music, being a Sam the Record Man franchise had a very deep stock of back catalogue, and import releases.
But even the lot of them together do not even closely match what I have managed to read about, listen to (mp 3 samples, My Space, You Tube, and band sites), and acquire over the past 10 years.
I don't need record store guy to like a band so as to be introduced to them, I don't need X music magazine to tell me or sell me on the next big thing, nor the radio to show me what's hot now. Ads campaigns & Hype don't move me.
What does ? Sites like this. Bands pages. Wikipedia pages. Local music fans, and indie media. And all this added to Frank's Music, Spin-It and other retail outlets that are still here.

We are at a point that if a music fanatic was to be able to access everything that interested them, they would not have enough time to listen to it all. Therefore, you can say that the availability is infinite.
So you don't reasure that crappy LP that you saved up 2 weeks allowance to complete your group X collection, only to find out that it sucks. Even if you come to find it O.K. after a thousand listens, 'cause ... well ... you can only buy so many LPs.
Now - if ain't good, if it ain't worth more time, it's out of here. And why not ? 'Cause there's more than enough good & great music out there. Some will take some time to get into. But even today, even 40 years ago, there was some music that NEVER got better the more you listened to it.
I remember reading a Creem issue dedicated to the Rolling Stones. The writer was a big fan from the early days. He said how when he bought "Black & Blue" , that he listened to it a hundred times. And kept on listening to it until he finally thought, this is a good album. Then never played it again. Can you imagine all the music that he missed out on simply because he could not let a mediocre album be ?