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Originally Posted by pramjockey
I had vinyl records when I was a kid, and remember when the CD came out. While I do have a fairly large CD collection, it has all been ripped to MP3, and I purchase legal copies of songs that I want to add to my collection, unless there's a whole album that I want to purchase because I know it'll be good and I want to support the band.
It's like movies; I stopped going unless it's really good. Excellent movies end up in my DVD collection as extra support for quality filmmaking. If more people purchased good movies and music and shunned bad, the companies would have incentive to provide a better product. |
Part of the problem is that record companies have to have a few artists, regardless of how good they are, who can turn them a profit. Only one in ten albums turn a profit, so they have to ensure that those that do turn a huge profit.
Of course illegally downloading music does not really hurt the artists (they make their money with shows and publicity) but it hurts all of the people behind the scenes-and there are quite a few.