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Originally Posted by Pedestrian
You can absolutely call yourself a fan. I don't think we should be defining a fan through materialism.
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I agree with this, even though I personally prefer to get the albums, and I never open them. First I illegally download an album, then if I don't llike it, I delete it and if I do like it, I purchase the album and never open it.
I used to talk to the vocalist, on-line, of Hortus Animae and when they released a limited 100 box set, I asked him if he could include a burned copy of all the disks so I wouldn't have to open them aand I can keep it in mint condition. He did it, which was fantastically awesome of him.
I am so anal about my collection tthat I bought Dornenreich's live DVD „Nachtreisen“, which has two performances on it, one is their performance at Summer Breeze and the other is an acoustic performance at WGT. I could not find a download ANYWHERE of the WGT show, so I HAD to open it to rip it. Because of that, when I have money, I am going to buy another copy (it is like $30 USD + VAT + import fees + shipping). Another reason I am re-purchasing it is because, since I had to open it anyway, I tried to carefully remove the FSK sticker (German equivalent of the MPAA ratings) and the packaging is a digipak with a matte finish and it tore.
Although I would go through paying another $80 for this album because of those two things, I would never consider somebody who doesn't own any of their merch to be less of a fan than I.
Not to mention the fact that purchasing an album doesn't net the actual artists very much...
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