A Revolution is the Solution
I dunno, I think Radiohead's efforts are noble, long term, but I'd really like to decide how much to pay for it after giving it a listen.
That is the thing I like about P2P you know. I can hear it first, decide if it is worth a rotten penny or no, then choose to buy it.
And I'll bet you wouldn't be surprised to learn that I delete most of what I download, and do not go buy it, and sometimes I wish there was something that worked like bleach for my musical memory, because all too much of what is put out is such utter trash.
Nine times out of ten an artists web-site has an album or a few records from an album running in the background. Thus avoiding the need to download via P2P.
9 times out of 10 the few tracks artists have on their website are the singles that I could have heard on the radio anyway.
I buy albums based on whether I like the non-singles. If all I like is the single, the album will annoy me endlessly.
One might say that releasing your music for free on the internet when there are literally thousands of artists out there doing this already is like shouting at a void that couldn't care less.
There's so much free product that you won't know where to look. Serious option anxiety will be the ultimate effect.
Being an artist who releases music for free on the internet myself, I suppose I see a positive and a negative side to this.
In some case, people who've never heard a Radiohead track might well decide to check it out and decide they love the band.
But, it does show that the way music is bought and sold is evolving at a faster rate.
For those of us who do it for free already it shows that perhaps there is profit to be gained in other items such as t-shirts and other swag.
Or, again, the aforementioned shouting at a void that couldn't care less. For me, for the few fans I have I want them to be able to get whatever I happen to have recorded in vast quantities.
Perhaps I'm a masochist.
Glad I stumbled on this. I felt that there was a void on the internet for bitter angry people declaring that something sucks. Revolutionary indeed. Really, I wish we could consolidate all this garbage into one "Everybody Sucks But Me" website and get it over with. You could go on the sub-section of "If YOU've Heard Of It, It Sucks", along with the sad picture of you where the hair covers your eyes, and maybe one or two of those schizo drawings you did during that 3 month period you didn't leave the apartment.
..I'm sure I couldn't care less, but thanks.
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