Zero cases? 50 cal Barret rifle's were used to shoot ATF agents at Waco. The same rifle has also been used effectively by IRA terrorists against British forces in Northern Ireland.
Right now I'm just waiting for the next big thing to happen. The way I see it music seems to follow certain patterns. Every 10 years or so the old order gets blown away and replaced by something new and fresh. Prog rock gave way to punk, hair metal gave way to grunge and pretty soon now nu metal, will be supplanted by something else. Music will begin to matter again, sincerity will return, a cultural movement will be born.
...very few artists have stepped up to the plate and said "yes, i will gladly sell my soul for millions and millions and millions of dollars.
I can thing of a few - Alice Dee Jay, Chemical Brothers, Fat Boy Slim et al.
Most fans of electronic music that i know feel as if they're the only ones, or at most, part of a small group.
Over here in britain and ireland the charts are saturated with electronic artists and obscure one hit wonder DJs.
Some Napster users would regard you as being a fool for actually buying their music when you could have downloaded the rest of it for free instead. This is what the bands are worried about. Most Napser users I know simply wouldn't bother buying the cds.
My CD purchases have gone up (for the moment). I 've found mp3s a really neat good way of discovering new artists and for checking out new albums. But IMHO the quality sucks a bit.
However, if in the future when bandwidth increases, I'll be able to download entire albums in the form of uncompressed wavs instead of mp3. In that case I would end up purchasing a lot less CDs.
Would you purchase something if you could get the exact same thing online for free?
Ripping off greedy record companies is one thing (they've had it coming for a long time), but how exactly the bands supposed to make a living if they can no longer charge for their work?
The typical Napster mentality I'm seeing here seems to be everything anywhere for free. Some people don't even want to pay for a subscription-based service.
How many people here would work in their jobs for nothing?
Record sales at the moment are not the issue.
A few years down the line when bandwidth/HD space increases we won't be downloading mp3s anymore. We'll downloading uncompressed wav files instead.
Why bother buying the album when you've already got perfect copy of it?
And from what I've heard Napster has destroyed the singles market. I read (In the Sunday Times I think) that some record companies won't even give artists royalties unless they sell over a 100,000 units.
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What your audio set up? I had a friend who thought the same thing when until he stop listening through shitty computer speakers.
Zero cases? 50 cal Barret rifle's were used to shoot ATF agents at Waco. The same rifle has also been used effectively by IRA terrorists against British forces in Northern Ireland.
Right now I'm just waiting for the next big thing to happen. The way I see it music seems to follow certain patterns. Every 10 years or so the old order gets blown away and replaced by something new and fresh. Prog rock gave way to punk, hair metal gave way to grunge and pretty soon now nu metal, will be supplanted by something else. Music will begin to matter again, sincerity will return, a cultural movement will be born.
...very few artists have stepped up to the plate and said "yes, i will gladly sell my soul for millions and millions and millions of dollars.
I can thing of a few - Alice Dee Jay, Chemical Brothers, Fat Boy Slim et al.
Most fans of electronic music that i know feel as if they're the only ones, or at most, part of a small group.
Over here in britain and ireland the charts are saturated with electronic artists and obscure one hit wonder DJs.
Some Napster users would regard you as being a fool for actually buying their music when you could have downloaded the rest of it for free instead. This is what the bands are worried about. Most Napser users I know simply wouldn't bother buying the cds.
BTW why the fuck wasn't this post modded up?
The oil monopoly is finished - OPEC are still around aren't they??
What people are trying to say is that a gun is just a tool that greatly increases the killing efficiency of the person using it.
My CD purchases have gone up (for the moment). I 've found mp3s a really neat good way of discovering new artists and for checking out new albums. But IMHO the quality sucks a bit. However, if in the future when bandwidth increases, I'll be able to download entire albums in the form of uncompressed wavs instead of mp3. In that case I would end up purchasing a lot less CDs. Would you purchase something if you could get the exact same thing online for free?
Ripping off greedy record companies is one thing (they've had it coming for a long time), but how exactly the bands supposed to make a living if they can no longer charge for their work? The typical Napster mentality I'm seeing here seems to be everything anywhere for free. Some people don't even want to pay for a subscription-based service. How many people here would work in their jobs for nothing?
Record sales at the moment are not the issue. A few years down the line when bandwidth/HD space increases we won't be downloading mp3s anymore. We'll downloading uncompressed wav files instead. Why bother buying the album when you've already got perfect copy of it? And from what I've heard Napster has destroyed the singles market. I read (In the Sunday Times I think) that some record companies won't even give artists royalties unless they sell over a 100,000 units.
Does anyone know if spamming actually works as a marketing tactic?