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Originally Posted by MarkMono  This is a far more eloquent re-parsing of what I was trying to express.
I still love industrial with all my little rotten heart but the current scene is hardly a very good advert for it. |
Funny, I was thinking the same thing of your post!
You managed in two sentences, what I did in an essay!
My command of the English language knows no beginning... ;-)
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Originally Posted by Effigy Sorry, but I dont buy your arguments. I'll try to put together a proper response to your points, but 1 of them I'll hit straight off.
Poor excuse for theft of an artists work.
There's a thousand industrial radio stations on-line. You want to listen before you buy? There's your answer.
You seem to argue that downloading is a victimless crime. You dont seem to grasp the concept that it takes time and money to create the music you seem to think you have the right to use and abuse as you wish.
Try telling Faderhead, who's just announced that he's quiting the scene for this very reason, that downloading is "the saviour of music".
Bullshit mate, total bullshit. |
If I buy the CD I intend to listen too how is it theft? I'm checking it out before I buy, then buying.
If I go to buy a microwave oven, should I have to choose based on looking at the box? Or finding someone else who has the same oven? No, I *inspect* the goods. Same with music. Same with art. If I buy a picture I look at it first. Not on the web, not on a low bitrate streamed radio station. If it's good? It's bought. I've also yet to hear an industrial radio station play a full CD or even a selection of the tracks from a CD, and at a time of my choosing. Sorry, I don't 273,000 hours spare to take in enough airtime to hear enough from the unscripted multitude of stations. I like to write tracks too you know. And eat, and live etc.
It does take time and money to create music. I grasp the concept well - I do it! As an artist I know only too well. I also know that the record label overcharges and takes a chunk out of royalities to recoup the overcharge.
Steve Albini is a friend of a friend of mine (if that makes sense), here's what he has to say -
http://www.negativland.com/albini.html
As for abusing music? How, pray tell do I do that? I buy product. Do prodigy abuse music when sampling a track and not declaring it? Please justify/explain my "abusing" music.
