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Originally Posted by Toilet & Bowels

Another reason I was thinking about buying digital (aside from hoping that it may contribute to whoever made whatever thing may be able to continue making other things) is that it may mean I actually listen to stuff that I have. I downloaded a lifetimes worth of stuff from blogs and p2p but most of it is just sitting on my harddrive, gathering electronic dust probably/maybe because it was a massive load of free crap.

ha ha ha

same here-- a bunch of frozen hard drives.

re: paying artists, it's a bit of a tossup at the moment, as new rules are being set in place for what's obviously a new business model-- customers want free shit, services want to pay less, artists want to get more, eventually some balance is struck.

i think of streamable services as the (finally here after 2 decades in the woods) substitute for radio-- you get to hear new stuff without restrictions, and the artist gets a fraction of a penny for each individual listen, which is crap, but if a million people listen enough, times, you can see some serious cash-- again like radio i suppose which required ratings to make it viable.

also spotify claims it helps increase actual sales of digital files.