The Idiocy of Purchasing Music

[nineteeneightysix]

Buying albums is stupid...

If you want to support your favourite artist, go to the concert and buy a t-shirt...

 

[Luke Cage]

buying their singles and helping albums go platinum is why music sounds so garbage today.
I prefer my artists to be artists.
to struggle and then make thought provoking music from that struggle.

not be a rich millionaire with a team of marketing people telling which direction to go for the next hit.

if they want money they should make off of shows not from plat records.

any artist whoever approaches his album like this. (intro, party cut, record for the ladies, record for hiphop fans, ect outro.)
is not for me.
I want one cohesive work of art built for one audience. not a party sampler.

 

[John Mayer]

This is the streaming era

 

[The Devil's Advocate]

If you wanna be a leech that's fine, do whatever. But don't go around like OP saying STUPID shyt like "durr why do people buy music lolol?"

Nah I'm not downing anyone who does. I think it's dumb to ask "why doesn't everyone just steal shyt"

We are in an era where people are now thinking it's free. It's not. Its a product with a price. And because you don't walk in a store and stick it in your pocket, people say "free"

You stealing shyt. fukk it I'm stealing shyt. Music, movies, games, apps, Photoshop, Netflix. All that shyt is stealing if you ain't paid for it straight up

I'd never EXPECT everyone on earth to become a degenerate like me tho

 

[Danie84]

So, it's asinine to buy the better quality of something you actually want physically in your possession

 

[The Devil's Advocate]

So, it's asinine to buy the better quality of something you actually want physically in your possession

So you think they record an album in a digital studio on protools. Go get it mastered up. Get the files and send them to iTunes and everywhere else. Then press up Cds USING THE SAME FILES

And somehow the cd version is a better quality?

This ain't 1998 breh. nikkas are getting the files straight from iTunes and uploading them. shyt some are being converted to a HIGHER quality.

Explain to us this logic you speak of

 

[Da Jungles]

The funny thing is some of the artists you folks are supporting will download some shyt for free with the quickness

 

[RichYung]

buying their singles and helping albums go platinum is why music sounds so garbage today.
I prefer my artists to be artists.
to struggle and then make thought provoking music from that struggle.

not be a rich millionaire with a team of marketing people telling which direction to go for the next hit.

if they want money they should make off of shows not from plat records.

any artist whoever approaches his album like this. (intro, party cut, record for the ladies, record for hiphop fans, ect outro.)
is not for me.
I want one cohesive work of art built for one audience. not a party sampler.

 

[Juggalo Fred]

So you think they record an album in a digital studio on protools. Go get it mastered up. Get the files and send them to iTunes and everywhere else. Then press up Cds USING THE SAME FILES

And somehow the cd version is a better quality?

This ain't 1998 breh. nikkas are getting the files straight from iTunes and uploading them. shyt some are being converted to a HIGHER quality.

Explain to us this logic you speak of

if you sell cd's using mp3 files you are a rookie ass company

 

[Ranger21]

spotify 10 bucks a month....own almost every album i possibly can

 

[phillycavsfan]

I spotify all new music as sort of a taste test. Or if it's old I have Amazon Prime so I'll download it to my cloud. If I like it, I buy it it's really that simple. Probably have around 4000 songs downloaded to my Amazon Cloud and I'd guess around 90-95 percent are bought, either thru Amazon, iTunes, or Bandcamp.

I don't download movies illegally either. If you're taking precious time to make art I like, I'm gonna reward you with my hard-earned money so you make more good shyt.

 

[The Devil's Advocate]

if you sell cd's using mp3 files you are a rookie ass company

I guess you didn't see where I said they upload the exact same files you'd PAY to get on iTunes. Or the fact you can find any album in a wav or flac file

Again it's not 1998. I'm not shytting on what you want to do. But there is literally no difference in you buying that cd and me downloading the wavs of that cd

 

[Gaara]

Purchasing a album helps ensure that that artist will be able to release more work and it limits label interference into the album making process because if labels know that a artist is going to atleast go gold. they'll refrain from trying to pulling a "hit" out of thin air because they know they don't have to go to such great lengths for him/her to reach that benchmark hence why Kendrick can make a album like To Pimp a Butterfly for retail release.

 

[Big Blue]

I'm one of those that will buy an album just to support an artist. That's what I did for Aquarius. Haven't bought a single song since.

 

[yung hova]

Buying music?

DEAD