But how do you know you're going to want to listen to it? How are you expected to find new music that you'll enjoy? You might buy three or four albums a month, and only enjoy half or a quater of them. You can't guarentee that that £15 is going to be well spent, and its too much to end up with a crap record on a frequent basis.
I usually download my music. When i first started doing it it felt so cool to be able to get all this for free. But when i find something i really like i feel i should "pay my respects" or whatever. When i can't get in touch with the artist in person that usually means buying the cd.
Don't buy the CD, buy some merchandise. Basicly, the way almost all major record labels do it is that the record company makes money from the CD's, and the artist makes money from touring and from official merchandise. Thats why buying an artists T-shirt at say £20 gives them more money then buying 5 of their cd's at £15. The shirt they get say a tenner, the albums they're lucky to get 40-50pence(only megahuge bands get that much from a cd). So goto concerts and buy merchandise, even if you dont want to wear it. That way you support the artists but not the record company
Indeed. I just wish more people would upload something lossless like flac. It won't stop me seeding to 100%. It'll just mean it takes a bit longer, so what? All media is overpriced imo... I mean for the cost of TWO commercial DVD movies, I can buy a spindle of 100 and pirate plenty of stuff to fill it up. It's about one commercial CD to a 100-pack of CD-Rs.
That's all very well but I'm not gonna go and buy a t-shirt just for the sake of making some artist(s) some money. If I think their music is worth purchasing (usually after downloading first to find out) I'll buy it. I'll go to their concert if they're doing one near me as well, but I've never bought merchandise before just because it gives me no pleasure in comparison to music (although the franz ferdinand clothing sale was tempting ). <A88>
I think he was saying download the music and buy a t-shirt if you want to give compensation to the band, because buying a cd gives the money to the label rather than the band itself. I think however every label should give open downloads to full songs, if someone likes the music they will buy the cd. Or atleast make downloaded music 25-50cents a song..making something digital the same price as buying a higher quality song with a booklet and a cd-case is rediculous. The industry is screwing themselves the same way cinema's are screwing themselves. Why go to a theater when you can buy a dvd (the moment it comes out) in better quality than the theater, which allows you to give multiple-views at will, lend to a friend, and only a few dollars more than a theater (LESS if you count whats included on the dvd, and the fact that its 4 dollars for a coke and 4 dollars for popcorn). There just greedy as hell, and there going to pay for it much like the gaming industry did in the 80's.
I think you misunderstand my intention. I'm not suggesting one buys artists merchandise to make themselves happy, I'm suggesting one does it as a way of paying the artist but not paying the record industry. Many people dislike that £5 from each cd goes to the suits while under 50p goes to the artists(the ones that are actually important). Buying merchandise is a way to pay the suits nothing or next to nothing and the artists a decent ammount.
while i agree on the pricing, all most all cinema's will give you a better quality picture by far than you can achieve on a dvd
BOYCOTT NOW!!!!! i feel the anger you do, i have bought (recently) casset tapes because they cost half as much, even though the materials probably cost twice as much. also, we must warn others of are curagous battle, a downhill battle against the record companies, We must tske our battle to the streets, to the stores, to the cd rack itself (see the cd sticker stuff).
You must have some really high quality cinema's in your town, most o fthe ones where i live (In the US) are pretty damn crappy. The 'good' ones with stadium seating and a decent sound system still have grainy pictures (Compared to our HDset, or even my old rear projection big screen) and then you have to deal with laughing/talking/cellphones and crap, i've never been to a picture that was decently filled and didnt have someone crying or being obnoxious. I'de rather enjoy my decent sound system (which sounds nicer than a theaters, especially my sub), have extra's to watch after. Cheaper food compared to a theater, no dumbass shouting at the screen or a baby crying. Personally, i think your the first person who said a dvd is worse quality than the cinema...
You should go to the cinema in Bromölla. Soooo good. Killer sound, über comfy chairs, even cool starlight lightshow on the walls, very few stupid people screaming at the screen. Ticketprice 70-90 sek. Oh, and no grainy picture. Edit: I just had a look at their site and it seems they were dubbed the number one cinema in Sweden 2001. Guess i'm lucky i live so close to it.
indeed, every cinema here is pretty decent quality in my experience (other than audio, but no need to go into that).
I'de think the plane ticket from the US to Bromolla and back would put me back quite a bit. Probly enough that i could buy a decent new HUGE tv to watch my dvd's on xD. I had a question for some other people, a new theater was built here in florida that uses a new projection system (I think its a digital system), but when you sit near the very back you can hear the LOUD clicking sound of the projecting changing the slides. Anyone else been in a theater like this?
Its been about 10 years sence i last bought a CD. I havent bought a DVD in about a year but thats because im renting from Netflix.
Those who think DVDs are overpriced should remember what it was like before DVDs when Laserdiscs were the thing to have with each new movie release costing £50 or more. In comparsion paying £19.99 is a bargain.
I agree. I also think people who complain about petrol prices for cars should STFU. I mean, think how much it costs to go to into space in a spaceship? In comparrison, driving a car is cheap as proverbial CPU's.
i agree with the dvds being well priced and im doing well im my campeign and since gettin broadband in febuary i have never bought a cd or dvd since
