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View Poll Results: Would You Use Limewire
Yes i want to rob from my favourite artist 10 58.82%
No i want to do it the right way by buying their album / single 7 41.18%
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Old 09-21-2006, 08:16 PM   #21 (permalink)
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Do all of you have a job?
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Old 09-21-2006, 08:29 PM   #22 (permalink)
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Yes, I want to rob from my favourite artist.
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Old 09-21-2006, 09:07 PM   #23 (permalink)
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Do all of you have a job?


ummm yeah, but.. so?
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Old 09-21-2006, 10:51 PM   #24 (permalink)
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Users most likely to download: Highschool dropout stoner kids.
Users most likely to support music: Straight edge music fans.
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I think I know much better than you ever will how Mettalica is. I used to play for 2 years in a Mettalica cover band.



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Old 09-22-2006, 12:48 AM   #25 (permalink)
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If I like an artist I use it to check out their other stuff and then if it's good I usually buy it.
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Old 09-22-2006, 11:21 AM   #26 (permalink)
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but the internet and downloading is the greatest thing to happen to music in a long time! it gives bands, that maybe wouldn't have hade a chance to get a record contract, a listen to by music listeners. i.e. Artic monkeys & arcade fire. its a ctualy a fact that record sales in england has actualy gone up! so downloading cant be that bad!
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Old 09-22-2006, 12:17 PM   #27 (permalink)
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I buy anything I like enough to download. And the only cd's of mine that have even a fingerprint on them, are the ones someone else has touched. I've got cd's up to 3 years old with absolutely no marks on em'. My friend and I were saying, it wont surprise us when people start downloading the actual album artwork to make it look more authentic.
actually most of the torrents come with album art now heh heh. and being straight edge has no bearing on whether you download music or not, it just makes you a weiner.
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Old 09-22-2006, 03:20 PM   #28 (permalink)
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Actually no. Potheads lack the energy or intrest in doing anything other than sitting and staring at a screen for hours on end. This is one of the many bad effects of Marijuana, because each user will ask; "Why work if I can get money by stealing?", or "Why pay for music when I can get it free?"
The internet may provide exposure to the bands, but it also does this.
Record labels will look at statistics and find what is selling most. They aren't instrested in the music mostly, they're intrested in profit. So they find that users between the ages of 16-35 download music. What you have left is kids ages 6-10 who are into poppy Disney songs. So the label will go and sign up a few dozen knockoffs of Jessica Simpson and the Backstreet Boys, and wait on little kids and preppy schoolgirls to buy them. Meanwhile good artists are off playing friend's houses, or local clubs since they can't get signed. Bands now that don't sell as much as expected, get booted from the label. Think I'm making this up out of my ass? Do some research. Perry Farrell of Jane's Addiction was talking about the exact same thing not that long ago.
And to quote him..."Well these 6-10 year old girls are buying Brat dolls, they will buy our little girl group albums too." Unless an artist can generate revenue for his label, the label will lose intrest. You can post as many arrogant replies as you wish, but this is the plain truth of the matter.
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Old 09-22-2006, 04:13 PM   #29 (permalink)
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mine is being burend and disappointed tiem after time by various bands and different genres I'm not astoner, nor pothead I'm jsut not very social at the same time none of thsoe gernalizations were very good, or accurate.

Sad to see music reduced to all his assumptions and gernalising.. ahhh back in the day, when music WAS actaully worth buying, and I did, quite actively.. I so miss those days.
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Old 09-22-2006, 04:21 PM   #30 (permalink)
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I'm a throwback among all my friends (I'm 17 and live in a upper middle class part of town).

They've all got their 30 GB Ipods and their BitTorrent and Limewire and what-have-you.

I buy CDs only, so I guess I'm a dying breed in our "something-for-nothing" culture.
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