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Ooohhhh! What a bitch you are.

Not only you openly steal records for future sale and share them publicly, you also have a go at posting a better bitrate of them than other thieves, which could result in trouble for the people running this site. I think more than a life you need to get a job to buy records when they come out.

whatever..

i'm not the only one who posted a link in this thread or something

I hope you get banned from here.

i don't care, you are still a bitter old man.

Haha.

Well, all I've got to say is, Animal Collective themselves said they wanted the album to be leaked. Otherwise, your argument is none of my business.

Back to porn-merzbow.

Can you bring up the source where they say that? If that's the case, then cool. Still, stealing commercially available records show that you don't love or respect the musicians involved, therefore it makes you:

1 - A faker
2 - A cheapskate
3 - A poseur
4 - Plain greedy

Even more so because you incite others to do the same.

still rather be these things than a bitter old man..

Not bitter enough because I can still afford to buy records. You can't.

Quoted for posterity.

good for you

Yup.

:)

Not my cup of tea.
Just a question : did they hire a "regular" drummer ?

http://thequietus.com/articles/00886...for-album-leak

Anyway, no, I don't think they hired a drummer, they just have better production.

Did you actually read the article, or you just saved it on your hard drive, together with the free album?

Hahahaha.

I burned the article for my girlfriend. Plan on reading it later when I get time.

So you you didn't even read its content, which also casts doubts about a member of the band claiming that, but the headline was enough for you? Hmmm, that's interesting.

Doubt can always be cast. Maybe I'm not actually the guy who usually posts as atsonicpark, replying to you right now ohhhhh! I'm sure if you search around enough on the web, it was confirmed it was a band member. I just don't feel like it, as there's really no point to be proved here. I did click on a few links, all sharing variations of the same story, and it seems legit, but you never know.

However, regarding the ethical stance of downloading albums, well... long before I had high-speed internet, I remember listening to albums with my friends that they had purchased that I had no intention of purchasing myself, and I was glad I heard the album, but I never intended to buy the thing. There's still tons of albums I've heard that I enjoyed that I don't have physical (or digital) copies of. Personally, that's the case with me here.. and in the case of Chinese Democracy, for example... I'm glad I heard this album but I don't plan on burning it for myself or buying a copy or anything. Just because you don't personally spend your money on an album, I think you still have the right to hear it. Hell, most bands put their entire albums streaming for free on myspace now -- because they want people to hear them, amongst anything else.

As far as people posting links on here, perhaps it is pointless, as all you have to do is type in "animal collective" "merriweather post pavillion leak" "blogspot" into google and it'll come up.

So you admitt that you've listened to Chinese Democracy, no ?