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Originally Posted by Charlatan
That's the beauty of buying the tracks online. You just buy the songs you like. Why bitch about not liking the other tracks when you no longer have to buy them if you don't want to. Regardless, just don't use it as an excuse to steal music.
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How will I know if I like them until I listen to them? It's not like the shitty tracks get a lot of airplay.
Besides, it may have changed since the last time I bought music legally, but I dislike the whole concept of DRM and losing a shitload of songs when you opt out of a service (Yes - I actually paid for Rhapsody for awhile. Lost every single song after I quit.)
In any case, I
will go out and buy a CD if I think it's worthwhile, because it's usually better quality than the 128 mbps stuff that's available for download. Without having this devolve into a "
my taste in music is better than yours" thread, I will say that I've bought a couple of CDs in the past few years - Owsley's
The Hard Way, and Oasis'
Dig Out Your Soul. Not a bad song among them, IMHO.
If a band can string together 6 or 7 decent songs, they'll get my money.
Also, nowadays - if you want to support a band, you'll be helping them a lot more by seeing them perform live than by buying their CD. It used to be that bands only toured to promote their albums; the promoters made most of the live performance money, but the bands made a lot from the sale of their albums. Now - it's the opposite - the bands make a shitload off of their concerts; but the recording companies make all the money from CD sales.
In my years of buying music and going to concerts, the cost of albums has gone up from $3 to around - what - about $12 for a CD now? Yet concerts have gone from $6 (The Doors, 1971) to anywhere from $50 to over $100 now.