Back when the cd came out, we were told that the high prices were because it was a new media.
Then we were told it was to remain high because for every succesful selling artist, the record companies would have 9 unsucesful.
Damned if I am gonna pay for their sucky way of doing business.
They've had it coming for a long time. The artists (today, there aren't any artists left; rather Factory Workers like Spears and put together boy bands) on average get only 10% of the price for a cd; rest goes to anxillary personell.
I've used Napster to track down rare bootlegs. I use it to scout for new music; once I find something worth having, I order the cd. Which is then converted into mpg, because that way I can boost the bass more
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Here yer not even allowed to make mp3's of yer own cd's. Once again and idiotic government.
And, as Napster points out, it's not them who do the pirating - it's the users.
If Napster goes, so shoulĉd guns, because they're involved in crime. Or cars, because they kill people.
Instead of seeing Napster as a huge possibility/new way of marketing themselves, they see it as a threat. Old dinosaurs that aren't keeping up to date with technology and are paying for past sins.
Hope they all rot and die.
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Baron Claus "StSanta" Von Ribbentroppen
9./JG 54 "Grünherz"
"I don't necessarily agree with everything I think." - A. Eldritch
