old school pirate

Well label companies can frown at our collective free information dicks.
And then suck it.

As soon as I get a job with a respectable income, then yeah, I'll buy music, but until then, they can wait.

^all of my THIS

"Help" fund means they pay for it but make the band pay them back. I'm not kidding, all music videos, recorded songs, and tours have to eventually be paid back by the band directly and not through sales.

"justify $1.29 for a single song". Okay, buy the whole album, problem solved

The whole album costs about $12 and has 10, maybe 12 songs...you're still paying at least a dollar a song.

It helps expand your listening and most albums have 12 or more, if not then you're getting ripped off or the songs are extremely long. Buying one song doesn't make too much sense, if you get the whole album you get to listen to more of that artist's songs rather than just one over and over and over again

That still doesn't change the price of the song, which not everybody can afford, specially given the piracy option.

I do believe that when MegaBox (Kim dotcom's new project) gets going this might be fixed by cuttung the label as an intermediary.

It's $12, just don't buy 50 albums at once, wait a while between each purchase and you'll treasure them even more

You think music piracy isn't a big deal?
Because of people who steal music on the internet, Brittany spears had to downgrade from a Gulfstream 5 to a Gulfstream 4. Because of thieves, musicians are being force to live a life of mere semi-luxry

I pay my 10 bucks a month to a digital media service, it's on that service to pay out to the artist. if I like an artist enough, I will go out and buy their cd. it's been a while since I've bought an actual CD though.

meanwhile, i go to a 3DG concert and they told us they have enough money, to go pirate their music if we want, it doesnt matter to them and last i checked they arent a "corporate band"

This is mainly applicable to the metal scenes and most underground alt/punk and indie. When it comes down too it I've seen up close bands get ripped off by venues and people pirate their music, struggle because to even tour it costs money coming from their own pocket. I've seen this happen from little alt punk boy bands jamming in their garage to well known black metal bands that roam Canada and have a name for themselves.

In a way, however, you gotta learn some to know some, and in the end if it was really meant to be, you'll come out on top just fine. Even then, it's not easy to keep up with it. To be famous is a lot of work, to be popular is a lot of work. You can't just walk up onto a stage and play a couple songs off your discography, locally or nationally known, and walk away with money in your pocket to blow at the bar with your mates.

In all and all, it's mostly the underground that hurts over this. It's usually only the musicians and true fans that actually care and understand this, making it easier half of the time to point out who the posers are, if you love something, you put yourself into it. Not that I'm saying people who can't afford to buy discography's or merch complete posers, they're not. I can image they go to shows and show support. Even that alone, not just the money, helps push bands along far in the long run whether you know it or not.

I'm not for or against piracy of any kind, but I'm just gonna leave this here.

Just enlarge if you can't read it.

As someone who makes music as a solo artist and with a band, it's much more important to me to have people listen to my music, not to make money off of it.

I put my music on Soundcloud because I want people to listen to it and I don't care if I make money off of it.

Well, currently I'm not dependent. If I were playing music to make money, though, it would be more about playing live shows.

I try to support my favorite bands to keep them making the music I love. Be that buying merch, going to shows, CDs and the like.

People don't seem to realise that piracy really is going to be the downfall of the music industry. It would be amazing for bands to sell 1 million records like they used to, now 100k is the target to hit.

Now you'll see bands moving to kickstarter programms to help with the production costs, mainly because they aren't getting enough money from the labels to make records, and it's sad.

my avatar is much better than yours! c;

.....Indie people are more so pro pirate. They say it spreads their music around and when people become a fan they buy out of respect and so in the long run indie get more people buying. Atleast this is the logic explained to me by music people I follow. Even mojang has responded to tweets that say "I really wanna play your game but have no money" "Just pirate it"

fact musicians make more for shows than they will for cds. for instance the rolling stones did a tour recently and made seven million a show. you probably dont remember the time when people would hand out their cds so that people could hear their music and would want to come to shows. its still done today over the web. reverb nation is just one site where artists hand out their music to gain attention

*do you
and yes touring is expensive but you make a lot more doing it. on top of that the artist gets paid a higher percent of the money from tours, besides the artist shouldnt be in it for the money. he should enjoy performing and touring. cant get a big venue? get a smaller local one. if your good enough itll probably be pure profit for you since a good band showing up to a local place brings tons of attention to the local place

so if they only make 50 a night you think people are lining up to buy their cds?so fifty dollars a night or two after the recording studio takes their cut, which would you want?

yeah $50 per band member maybe. And if they're making that money from gigging they also probably have day jobs. My uncle used to gig weekly at a bar and he got about $75 per night

Mozart and Vivaldi are not in deperate need of money, i believe....

1)Pirate a song/album
2)Send the artist(s) what you would have paid
3)Greedy Record labels don't recieve an unfair 80% of that money
4)???
5)Profit!

I think pirating music is the best thing ever, if i like the songs enough after listening to the pirate then ill but the CD. If i didn't like the songs enough than they didn't deserve my money >:D

As soon as i can find a place to easily obtain all the albums i want without having to buy them over the internet, i will buy some. Hell, if i met any of the bands in real life i'd be throwing money all over them

bands make their main dough through touring

Going to their concert will help out a lot more than buying CD/mp3. When you buy their CD a lot of the profit goes to the record company and the manufacture of the CD, in the end the band don't get a lot.

What if he's not a concerned music fan, but really a big time musician who just wants to make us feel bad and stop pirating?

That's why I don't pirate music... pirate decade-old video games that nobody's making a profit off of anymore.

I only pirate when I absolutely can't afford it, otherwise I buy it to support the artist.

I'm illegally downloading my friend Kenzie's songs the second they go on her Facebook, but at every CD release you bet your sweet ass i'm buying 2 copies.

That's great of you, but there aren't a lot of people doing the same, unfortunately.

At a time with the cost of producing music was high, this was a good argument. Nowadays, would-be starving musicians should have a fucking job. You can buy yourself some pretty decent recording equipment for under 1000 bucks total (for a high quality USB interface, microphone, cables, and software). Plus, with today's visual editing GUIs, editing is a breeze. And distribution costs are literally non-existant when sold over the internet. Making music has become a hobby, not a profession. In my opinion, all musicians should give up trying to sell music over the internet and should make their money off of concerts, merchandise, and or having a real job.

Well actually, bands make most of their money nowadays from touring rather then album sales. But yeah if you take away the tours, sponsors, and all of the other free shit they get on the side for being famous then yeah, i would imagine that royalties in albums and such would mean a whole lot.

as of me it's emulators i hate emulators

most emulators are unavailable any other way, as they are discontinued, thats why you emulate

I think emulators help with the fact the most older consoles are impossible to find. I have an emulator for gameboy for example. I can't get a real one. (I live in Peru right now.)

I make a post about how I feel about piracy, leave for a few hours and return to a top 80 comment and a comment war.

People, Im just saying if you truly like a band support them, dont steal from them. I have favorite bands that suffer from this and have had to delay putting albums out for years because of it. Most the musicians I like dont make music for cash/fame they do it to make good music but thats a costly thing to do.
The few bucks a band makes when you buy their music puts them that much closer to being able to release new music, theyre probably not using it to buy a mansion or some shit.

Also someone mentioned this applies mostly to metal/punk/alt bands and yeah that is mostly where Im coming from but Im sure even mainstream rock bands experience the same thing. Just wanted to clarify my statement as I seem to have frazzled you all.

Things like this make me glad I listen to edm. A lot of people put their stuff out for free, or sell on bandcamp so you can donate if you like them but you're not deprived of their music if you have no money like I do. I'd imagine it's much more difficult for metal/punk/alt because high quality recording is costly, so I feel their pain there

oh there he goes again...

Immagine the whole trouble of having only one tv with a vhs machine in the family living room and you having a pornographic movie, that's stealthy fapping right there.

Imagine how bad it was in 1975.

its called google images

simply find it yourself or is that too much work

Its called a joke

son do you know how long i've been internet? i know i was just thinking out loud about what most people do if they care enough for the pictures

And I am just telling you that it is a joke and it is not to be taken seriously, and saying do you know how long ive been on the internet is a bit of a douche thing to say

that was a joke i was not being serious but sorry if it sounded douchy, and again i said i know

Oh sorry then

no problem again my bad in the first place

Then you're literally fucken retarded.

why are you pirating little Wayne?

i literally fell out of my chair

I miss Demonoid.

Megaupload was resurrected.

It's not the same...

-.-

It's the exact same with small user interface changes and more powerful servers.

It doesn't have the files it used to...

Well no shit, the US government seized them. The site itself was resurrected.

I know that.
But unless people upload lots of crap to it again, it won't interest me.

L

\INK

mega.co.nz/ Boom!

Wait, .NZ?

Does this mean I, as an Australian, can finally actually download files at a reasonable rate?

GLORIOUS

Directions weren't clear enough.
My dick is now a record.

sorry, did you try drinking orange juice that may help?

Yes, I am lost though where it says to "fry a pickle and place it in goat."

ahh okay, the trick with that is a plane propeller. hopefully this helps, if not try turning it off and back on.

I tried this at home myself, the most common problem I experienced was sometimes I forgot to make sure it was plugged into the wall. Hope this helps

MFW i ask for the sauce of the instructional Video

your meme is bad

and you should feel bad

Your lack of meme was bad

And you should feel bad.

as nuch as i agree with you too many disagree, have a thumb anyway

Most memes are filled with cancer anyway

Fuck you! I would if I could.

3D printer.

'nuff said

But how I wish I could.

I don't download bears... I am bear.
'nuff said.

i would if i could

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Prove to me that businesses are greedy and it actually isn't the government.

The more money the businesses make the more tax the state receives.

Yes, you are correct. I want to see what would happen if no one in the world payed for music ever again and didn't pirate it either. I wonder what would happen if music disappeared from all of our lives... well at least those that can hear.

Of course we must pay for music, but the only people who really need it is the bands which have yet to reach fame. Those bands needs money to stay alive. ''Artists'' like justin bieber on the other hand does not deserve a nickle.

Bieber... Ive heard that name before...

Ehh, who cares? (Random .gif)

Nice gif mate.

Thanks! I like your's as well.

most record companies will take in excess of 80% of the profit from music sales and give quite little to the original artist

I think its what you poor into the mold to make a copy.

Please tell me your joking, you cant be that stupid....

*pour