[notyourfiend]

Originally Posted by Rob Instigator

music being accessible to all does not equal being FREE

if CD's were sold at a reasonable cost, which it is not now, as the markup on a $16.99 CD is around $10.00, it wopuld be fine. a person working a minimum wage job could afford to bvuy two or three CD's a paycheck.
that is the way to go.

giving it away for free accomplishes nothing. people just do not take care of, or truly appreciate, that which they did not have to sacrifice for, wether that is in terms of work, or money, or a trade of some kind.
they just DON'T. the one exception I can think of is in gifts, and even those are easily disposed of or re-gifted by people.

music costs money to make. rehearsal studios cost money. equipment costs money. pressing your own CD-R's to give away at shows costs MONEY.
to ask that someone recompnese you for the LP you are selling them is a small thing.

fuckers who steal and download everything their hard drive can stand can go fuck themselves. they are thieves flat out, outright. they deny this to fiurther their own self-delusion.

while most bands in record contracts do not make money for themselves through record sales, what they DO make money for is t pay their tours off, their advertising, the cost of presing CD's and making t shirts and posters and of paying promoters to make sure the local radio station interviews you when you are in town, etc etc etc. the more a CD makes the more of a chance the band will get a longer contract, and be able to function as a touring act for the next decade or so.


BIZ-NASS.

yup. let's not forget how many in the music industry are also thieves. it's total bs that somebody such as patti smith is still in debt...