VivaLaPineapple said:
i have a question
have you ever test driven a car? did u buy the car right after that? now why didnt you buy the car even though you have test driven it?
1. its an issue of money
2. its an issue of how much you liked it
3. its stupid to buy something without knowing if its what you really wanted.
That would be more like
stealing the car off the lot (downloading music) instead of test driving it (music clips available at most stores).
"But officer I didn't know if I really wanted it, so I took it anyway because I wanted to make use of it without paying for it, becuse I'll be damned if I'm going to pay a dime for
using something I'm not sure I want."
Anyway I'm not going to try and say I don't download music just the same as everybody else. I do, and yes it's technically wrong, and I'm not going to defend it on a moral level. Though, like people have already said, if I have a healthy respect for the band, I will buy the album. I refuse to spend a dime let alone 15 bucks of my money on crap music and one MAYBE semi-good song, as people have also said. That right there is probably the best argument for downloading music. Though... there are sites where you can buy single songs for like, a dollar or something. If I'm going to download something, I'm going to look for a way to do it free first. That's just the way it is.
A perfect example of this is the newest A Perfect Circle album. They had one or two good songs on it. The rest were.. well.. crap. My dad was pretty pissed he wasted the money on it. My parents even take CD's out from the local library and have me rip the tracks off and burn them a copy. Now go back a few years. Disturbed filled up their CD with good songs. I could listen to the entire thing and not have to skip any tracks. I bought that CD.
I'm surprised no one has mentioned IRC. Torrents, IRC, Kazaa, DC++, there are even some non-us sites that have music up for grabs.
I really hope Pride isn't right about the "no new original music" thing either. As it stands now Punk and Emo are the current fad, and I'll be damned if there are anymore crap bands like Good Charlotte or Sum 41 or Simple Plan (or whatever ****ty punk/emo/crap band is popular right now) defiling my eardrums with their ****.