|
Post by Jenno99 on Mar 20, 2005 1:15:55 GMT -5
The record companies gouged people for years by charging $18 on a Cd that cost them, at the MOST, a dollar to make. That is an obscene amount of profit. They're just getting what they deserve. Thats exactly right!! If CD's were cheaper there'd be no need to download anything apart from non-commercial items- the stuff they make no profit on. I much prefer to own an album rather than download, so even if the price was dropped just that little bit it would encourage me to buy more CDs instead of downloading.
|
|
|
Post by Um Jammer Lammy on Mar 20, 2005 2:48:35 GMT -5
Maybe I've got the wrong end of the stick here in this thread somewhere but it costs the record company more than 1 dollar per copy of an album. The money for studio use and advertising alone is not cheap. However they do charge more than they should per album for sure and I have no doubt the record companies deserve what is happening to them. For so long they have created a product (artists) for the masses artists so manufactured and music so fake with no heart or soul in it purely to get rich with absolutly no guilt while real music and real musicians are left out in the cold. So it is no suprise to me that in return us the consumers show no heart or feeling towards these fake crappy "musicans" and most of all showing no guilt in taking the songs owned by record companies. Artists these days mean nothing to anybody. Why should they mean something to us? Once upon a time we had Janis Joplin for example a real musician who was a real person nowadays we have Ashley Simpson blaming her band and everything/everyone else for her blowing her own cover when the song she was supposed to be lip synching started with out her because she missed the boat, she quite a frickin talent that girl!
|
|
|
Post by satanoscillatemetallicsonatas on Mar 20, 2005 2:56:36 GMT -5
Artists still mean something to me, as they do still exist, just not so much on the commercial pop scale.
|
|
|
Post by Um Jammer Lammy on Mar 20, 2005 3:15:34 GMT -5
The commercial pop is what I'm talking about, it is what powers the industry, which for me anyway includes hip hop music and and sadly a fair amount of the rock music seen today. Record companies will only sign a band up if they can make them money and sadly an image sells as much if not more than actual music.
I could type all night about what I think but I just find that when you sit down a watch a music show or see a random music video there are a few certainties, they ALL look the part. The people in rock bands are all skinny and wirey and at least one of them wears a sweatband on their arm, a pop video will have a half naked girl dancing around, a hip hop video will have half naked black chicks dancing and shaking and maybe even a bouncing car with an angry dog. To me thats not what music is all about.
|
|
|
Post by ZeroSaidSadly on Mar 20, 2005 21:23:22 GMT -5
im so pro pirating. music is art, well its supposed to be. its not supposed to be a means of making cash, downloading spreads music, gives even poor people like myself a chance to appreciate art. you think those big corporations are suffering because of it? pshhhh. their CEO's are still livin large and their little guys workin below are still bein dealt their 6.50 an hour. feel bad because britney or christina might not be able to buy another trillion dollar house? Dont. They're not going hungry i promise you that.
|
|
|
Post by Procyon Rust on Mar 21, 2005 0:27:40 GMT -5
If you're so into pirating, then a lot of the good artists, who apparently are not appreciated that much will go hungrier. Fuck britney, she's supposed to be assasinated by now. I really wish there are different ways of selling the records bypassing the huge companies. They don't need the money, the artists do. Even if music is a form of art, you will have to pay the artists for all the time they spent recording and mixing those materials.
|
|
|
Post by satanoscillatemetallicsonatas on Mar 21, 2005 1:07:43 GMT -5
If you don't support the art, then where will the artists find the resources to continue creating it? I buy many cds that I download fully beforehand. The only cds I don't buy are ones that are overpriced, which I wait to come down, and sometimes I refrain from buying copies of artists that are now since defunct, and even more often what I really want to buy isn't in print anymore. I am a prolific downloader, but I understand the ramifications of the process, and prefer the physical cd, as it sounds better, and often looks better if there has been care taken in the presentation of the music. I find it hard to respect those who never buy music, but download massive amounts, yet claim to be music lovers. I buy music, even though I probably shouldn't, as I have little disposable income, but I love music so much that I am willing to spend my money on a nice shiny cd rather than a shitty overprices piece of clothing.
|
|