I just wondered what everyone thinks of downloading songs from the internet instead of actually buying the CDs... Now we all do it (well most :shrug: ) and the big companies keep saying they're going to "clamp down" and stop people downloading music...

 

Does anyone think this will happen or is it just a scare tactic...

 

For me downloading is cheaper than spending ridiculous amounts of money on CDs :o

 

.....And it's a good way to get unreleased Coldplay material :D

I only download songs to get B-sides or live material. I think that if you just download individual songs by an artist, and don't buy their albums, the whole intended effect of the music is lost. Can you imagine listening to "Dark Side of the Moon" in only a few pieces? The Album wouldn't make sense without listening to the whole thing. With albums and songs put out by new artists, the whole "album" feeling is lost sometimes, and a cd can just feel like a bunch of singles lumped together instead of something that you can listen to the whole way through, over and over [Like "the Joshua Tree"]. In that way, I think that downloading isn't "bad", necessarily. But, it's killing off the concept of the "album". :|

i download songs, but I dont burn CDs, the only way i can get into an artist is by hearing their stuff, and thats from downloading their music. Then if I like it, I'll buy their CD

Yeah i know what you mean about albums not making sense without all the songs. It's ok for some songs though... I mean I downloaded Gay Bar and High Voltage by Electric 6 :lol: i dont think they could beat those songs :lol:

Same here. I got to know most of my favourite artists by downloading their songs. I mean, if I like the songs I download I'll buy the CD. It's more of a promotional stuff, I don't think the record companies should be that scared because people buy the CDs usually after they have a proper listen.

they can kill me before they stop my downloading11111 :-x

i love d/l songs. that's how i discover a lot of bands i like now. ex. coldplay! lol. if it wasn't for d/l i wouldn't commit to buying a 15 dollars cd i might not like. :P

 

i understand that people are losing money, but as an artist you can make money in more then one way. just because people can get their hands on your music for free doesn't mean you are going to go broke.

:D

do you have an opinion amanda?

yea i already posted it sorry...well i gues i didnt..i like d/l songs..sry if i annoyed ya with me friendly smiley :)

Man, I played a joke on my best friend the other day...I sent her an anonymous email thingie. I made up an untrackable email address ([email protected]) and told her she had violated Code 2.1189 of the Act of Piracy of NS and would be arrested on Monday :lol:

I told her it was fake afterwards though

:lol: thats a good one...whatd she do?

She FREAKED. Her dad read it too and he flipped out on her. I felt bad but it was hilarious :lol:

:lol: :lol: thats great...ima try it MUHAHAHAHAHHA teaches my dad for messing with things he shouldnt mess with on our computer :twisted:

:lol: It's definitely worth doing

i love dl music, thats how i found about 90% of the bands i like, radio sucks too much so i dont listen anymore

yea they play to much crap rap and techno crud :-x

ugh, at work i WISH i could listen to rap and techno crap all day, i have to listen to f***ing COUNTRY ALL DAMN DAY EVERY DAY!!!! :x

ohhhh that sucks *giggles* oh im sorry its just that well country sucks!!!!!!!! :) :x :x :x :x :x :x BITE ME SHANIA TWAIN! :lol:

i dont know what its called or who sings it, but i hear this song no less than 4 times a day where the guy is singing something about the best view is from his porch looking in, the whole song sounds like hes some divorced guy stalking his family who went into hiding after he went mental

:lol: all country songs are life stories :shock: :shock:

every country song can be interpretted as something hick-ish

haha ahem. my dad will forever listen to it and well i just run to my room and shove my guts out my window and watch them as they decenegrate into my back yard than i go and get them and reinstall them into my wee body :)

well i think downloadin music is fine but only a couple to get the taste of the type of music the artist plays. Then if u like their music, u should go out and buy the cd. It's only fair that way...well i think so :shrug:

isnt kazza [retty much napster and that got shut down b/c of metallica?