I bought a lot of mainstream albums as a teenager, before file-sharing services were around. Nowadays, I buy a few mainstream albums here and there, but the majority of my purchases are albums from artists I would have never heard of except via file-sharing (meaning purchases that would have probably not been made otherwise). So my increased purchasing (as well as the purchasing made by others like me) is likely to offset at least SOME of the lost revenue caused by downloaders who don't end up paying for what they download in some form or another. I have several friends whose approach to music purchasing is similar.
That said, I have plenty of downloaded MP3s from "one-hit wonder" bands whose albums I never ended up purchasing. If the band sucks overall, but I like one song, I like having the freedom to get that one song.
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I bought a lot of mainstream albums as a teenager, before file-sharing services were around. Nowadays, I buy a few mainstream albums here and there, but the majority of my purchases are albums from artists I would have never heard of except via file-sharing (meaning purchases that would have probably not been made otherwise). So my increased purchasing (as well as the purchasing made by others like me) is likely to offset at least SOME of the lost revenue caused by downloaders who don't end up paying for what they download in some form or another. I have several friends whose approach to music purchasing is similar.
That said, I have plenty of downloaded MP3s from "one-hit wonder" bands whose albums I never ended up purchasing. If the band sucks overall, but I like one song, I like having the freedom to get that one song.