The Idiocy of Purchasing Music

[1/2OfDaBruinz]

The ultimate backwards hustle: Buying some shyt that's readily available for free. I understand the non internet savvy people purchasing music, but all you computer literate dudes wasting money on music is astonishing

nikkas be on some "I really support this artist, so I'm gonna purchase this one"

It's like dudes didn't get the memo, all this shyt is free. This is coming from a dude who probably spent thousands on CD's before file sharing popped off. I used to be in music store faithfully on Tuesday's copping all kind of shyt, so I made my contribution to the record industry. Even if I didn't, fukk em, because if I could have been downloading back then, I would have.

nikkas will be on some "I'm gonna download it, and if I like it, I'm gonna cop to support"

How the fukk you gonna buy some shyt you already got

Record labels got y'all fools buying DIGITAL albums for $14.99, the same price they was when they had manufacturing, shipping, and other cost
nikkas preordering digital albums like they gonna sell out

Back in the day, with bootlegs, the excuse used to be sound quality, but nikkas can't use that excuse anymore.

Do y'all nikkas actually feel good about yourselves after purchasing an album? These artist gonna eat regardless. I'm sure nikkas will come in here trying to justify the act of purchasing music in 2015, but the fact of the matter is, the shyt is unjustifiable.

 

[Suicide King]

2015 Posters

 

[Jeffrey Lebowski]

Lossless and well-coded music files do kind of make buying cds redundant. If I'm buying something in this day and age, it gotta be on vinyl, where there's something special offered

 

[Thatrogueassdiaz]

smh @ this thread

 

[Farrinto]

I used to just download iTunes quality albums for free from the internet but recently my iPhone deleted all of the non-purchased music that I had, so I had to go back and rebuy the songs that I had before. I see nothing wrong with buying music, at least you have a place to store it.

 

[Ninjaz In Paris]

This week in "Broke Confessions"...

 

[SteelCitySoldier]

No problem with anyone who doesn't pay for music but if it's worth it I'm dropping cash on other to support but also so later on down the line I still have it. 90% of the albums I cop I havent even opened yet because I have it downloaded. With the way physical music is going do you know what physical copies of some of this shot will be worth...FIRST EDITIONS UNOPENED... in ten to fifteen years?

 

[Uncle_Ruckus]

Not just music. I wouldn't pay $30 for a bluray in 2015 when all that shyt is online a week before release anyways. The way video games are so expensive, I download everything. TV Shows, Music, Movies. Money don't grow on trees in my house like most of the Cacs on here that be buying 2 of the same album to "show support" with their parents money. fukk that shyt. fukk cable, fukk iTunes and fukk Cineplex.

 

[AyBrehHam Linkin]

if it's an old album i download dat ish. if it's new i buy it.

 

[1/2OfDaBruinz]

No problem with anyone who doesn't pay for music but if it's worth it I'm dropping cash on other to support but also so later on down the line I still have it. 90% of the albums I cop I havent even opened yet because I have it downloaded. With the way physical music is going do you know what physical copies of some of this shot will be worth...FIRST EDITIONS UNOPENE... in ten to fifteen years?

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[Amestafuu (Emeritus)]

The ultimate backwards hustle: Buying some shyt that's readily available for free. I understand the non internet savvy people purchasing music, but all you computer literate dudes wasting money on music is astonishing

nikkas be on some "I really support this artist, so I'm gonna purchase this one"

It's like dudes didn't get the memo, all this shyt is free. This is coming from a dude who probably spent thousands on CD's before file sharing popped off. I used to be in music store faithfully on Tuesday's copping all kind of shyt, so I made my contribution to the record industry. Even if I didn't, fukk em, because if I could have been downloading back then, I would have.

nikkas will be on some "I'm gonna download it, and if I like it, I'm gonna cop to support"

How the fukk you gonna buy some shyt you already got

Record labels got y'all fools buying DIGITAL albums for $14.99, the same price they was when they had manufacturing, shipping, and other cost
nikkas preordering digital albums like they gonna sell out

Back in the day, with bootlegs, the excuse used to be sound quality, but nikkas can't use that excuse anymore.

Do y'all nikkas actually feel good about yourselves after purchasing an album? These artist gonna eat regardless. I'm sure nikkas will come in here trying to justify the act of purchasing music in 2015, but the fact of the matter is, the shyt is unjustifiable.

Fukking idiots who devalue art and the manpower and hours put into recording. Apparently music materializes from the air with no effort involved in making it.

Entitled ass clown thinks he discovered some unknown hustle.

 

[jadillac]

I stopped thinking it was "kewl" to pirate music long ago.

Water, and food are essential to life, SHOULD BE FREE, yet you nikkas don't bytch & complain about paying for them. If the govt wanted to charge you for air, some of would gladly line up to pay for it without complaint

But yet complain about buying music to support Black artists, which has clearly caused Black msuic in general to take a nose-dive.

If you just dl everything you're not a fan of music. You have no respect for the process. It can take 40 hrs just to make a 3 min song, and its shytty to have the opinion that you deserve it for free. What if your job worked like that?

There's enough free mixtapes out there that you can get enough and still buy an album every few months. Or at least use Spotify.

But you're "cool" tho and the rest of us are the idiots

 

[KravenMorehead™]

I'm a visual artist myself and a visual person in general, so I love the artwork reading the liner notes + the look of the actual CD is/used to be part of the experience. Unless it was just one folded sheet on some bullshyt...

Minus CDs scratching that's what I loved about em

Itunes M4A download pdf booklets just ain't the same

If I dropped music that shyt'd be a fukkin experience...

 

[Terrance Curtis Beasley]

These rappers say they rich, they dont need my money

 

[1/2OfDaBruinz]

nikkas in here in getting all worked up