Where do you get your music?

[HAL9000]

isn't that the reality of the current market situation?

Sort of but not legally.

 

[Demo24]

My argument is that it shouldn't be required, Art should be free to those who don't want to pay, if you want to donate that is your choice but it shouldn't be required.

artists have tried that, doesn't seem to have worked out too well. Radiohead tried it, figures were never released but their next album is going to cost money.

 

[HAL9000]

artists have tried that, doesn't seem to have worked out too well. Radiohead tried it, figures were never released but their next album is going to cost money.

Yeah one band doing it isn't going to work, it would need to be the entire market.

 

[dank69]

No, but they wouldn't be able to devote their life to it. They would have less time to spend on it and therefore make less progress in their lifetime, slowing the advancement of everyone else. They would be too busy trying to find a way to put food on the table some other way.

You are also confusing someone who creates 'art' for the money and someone who creates art because they love it and that art is so good that people are willing to spend money on it.

I understand that, and they would be free to do so but rather than paying for the music they could donate, the same as open source software. People with connections wouldn't have a leg up on people without, there would be no music production companies you could release your music on radio stations or over the internet for free, everyone could listen and just like a popular youtube video it would spread across the planet. For free...

You seem to have missed my first point (the bolded above) and only addressed the second point.

 

[HAL9000]

You seem to have missed my first point (the bolded above) and only addressed the second point.

Oh sorry, They might not be able to devote their entire life to it, but Van Gogh did alright, working to pay his way and then making his art in his own time.

 

[TimTanne]

amazon and friends =)

 

[Crono]

Zune, rip from CDs, occasionally Amazon's music service.

I used to used iTunes, but that software (on Windows) annoyed me so much, so I don't bother.

I love Zune. While it doesn't have every song I want, it has about 70% of what I want, and my collection is easily synced/playable across my PC, laptop, Dell Venue Pro, Kin One, and Xbox 360.

 

[HAL9000]

Zune, rip from CDs, occasionally Amazon's music service.

I used to used iTunes, but that software (on Windows) annoyed me so much, so I don't bother.

I love Zune. While it doesn't have every song I want, it has about 70% of what I want, and my collection is easily synced/playable across my PC, laptop, Dell Venue Pro, Kin One, and Xbox 360.

I'm glad you put on windows, I completely agree, in OSX its awesome, in Windows it sucks.