zeta101 said:
iMac2K6, since you've spent so much on music I'm guessing you value the music and you like to support the artist/band? If you download from limewire/bittorrent then the artist gets nothing (ie, pretty much stealing the music they produced).
Don't let your buddy convince you to start stealing music just because he does it, and don't let him make you feel like a chump for buying when he's getting it for free.
i purchase plenty of music, im not saying to go download music because thats illegal, but cds cost around 15 dollars, and there are wayyyy too many people making money off of that, not even so much the artist, if you want to support the ARTIST, go to a show or buy a t-shirt off their website, even buy the cd directly from their site, buying cds in stores support stores more so than the artists. plan-it-x records sells cds for $5 shipped i believe and they still make a profit, that makes me, for one, think about where my moneys going when i buy a cd from a chain store. dont get me wrong, there is this local indie store i spend over 400 dollars a year there (i know because they give you a punch card LOL) anyways i just wanted to say that free music is as harmful to the artists as the riaa and people make it out to be as long as you support the artist in at least some kind of way. wow that was long
thats prolly why its record companies doing so much complaining and not so many artists, because the record companies are making most of the money. h3ll i know a few bands that have their cds up for download on their sites, 128kbps of course