Why do people pay for music when they can get it legitimately for free?

[IHateMyJob2004]

Inspired by this thread

Why is everyone so obsessed with paying for music? There are hundreds if not thousands of bands that allow recordings of their concerts to be freely distributed.

I probably paid for 1 or two albums in the past year simply because I have been DLing free concerts.

See my sigs fro all the links you need.

EDIT: I am mostly shcoked because when I was done with college, I had over 100 cds. at $15 a CD, that's alot of cash. I pretty much stopped supoprting the recording industry in favor of supporting bands that make their money by playing music live. It's an itneresting busiess model. Get people interested in your live performances .. then more people show up to your concerts. Why give record companies money when it can be avoided?

 

[Inspector Jihad]

cause for the music I really like, i'm willing to pay?

 

[buck]

Originally posted by: Inspector Jihad
cause for the music I really like, i'm willing to pay?

:thumbsup:

 

[tweakmm]

I'm an audiophile and the recording quality of most of the taped shows out there sucks. Unless the bands allow sound-boarding it's just amazingly irritating.

It is really funny to hear people who quite apparently just took a huge hit of weed and are coughing their ass off in the background though.

 

[ShotgunSteven]

Most people want the mainstream drivel they hear on the radio.

 

[Rob9874]

Originally posted by: Inspector Jihad
cause for the music I really like, i'm willing to pay?

and for the music I like, I don't want a live version with slightly out of tune guitars, different versions of the melody, and hooting and hollering in the background.

 

[IHateMyJob2004]

Originally posted by: buck

Originally posted by: Inspector Jihad
cause for the music I really like, i'm willing to pay?

:thumbsup:

What you like or what hte media has forced you to like because you never heard anythign else?

 

[IHateMyJob2004]

Originally posted by: tweakmm
I'm an audiophile and the recording quality of most of the taped shows out there sucks. Unless the bands allow sound-boarding it's just amazingly irritating.

It is really funny to hear people who quite apparently just took a huge hit of weed and are coughing their ass off in the background though.

Tis true ....alot of recordigns are not great.

Even in teh audiophille realm, "great" recordings are hard to come by and it's even more rare for a good mainstream artist to have an audiophille quality recording availalbe.

The crowd banter is amusing sometimes

 

[tweakmm]

Originally posted by: Rob9874

Originally posted by: Inspector Jihad
cause for the music I really like, i'm willing to pay?

and for the music I like, I don't want a live version with slightly out of tune guitars, different versions of the melody, and hooting and hollering in the background.

I disagree. There are a lot of bands that are better live and some that are better in the studio.

Phish and String Cheese are two great examples of bands that are better live.

 

[Rob9874]

Originally posted by: IHateMyJob2004

Originally posted by: buck

Originally posted by: Inspector Jihad
cause for the music I really like, i'm willing to pay?

:thumbsup:

What you like or what hte media has forced you to like because you never heard anythign else?

Yeah, because the media is raving about Big Wreck.

 

[buck]

Originally posted by: IHateMyJob2004

Originally posted by: buck

Originally posted by: Inspector Jihad
cause for the music I really like, i'm willing to pay?

:thumbsup:

What you like or what hte media has forced you to like because you never heard anythign else?

What media forces me to listen to bands like:
Pepper
the expendables
slightly stoopid
cant hang
mad caddies
?


Please stop talking out of your ass and trying to peddle poor quality music.

 

[IHateMyJob2004]

Originally posted by: Rob9874

Originally posted by: Inspector Jihad
cause for the music I really like, i'm willing to pay?

and for the music I like, I don't want a live version with slightly out of tune guitars, different versions of the melody, and hooting and hollering in the background.

What msuic would that be?

 

[IHateMyJob2004]

Originally posted by: tweakmm

Originally posted by: Rob9874

Originally posted by: Inspector Jihad
cause for the music I really like, i'm willing to pay?

and for the music I like, I don't want a live version with slightly out of tune guitars, different versions of the melody, and hooting and hollering in the background.

I disagree. There are a lot of bands that are better live and some that are better in the studio.

Phish and String Cheese are two great examples of bands that are better live.

Some dfon't realize it, but Primus is also an example.

And Phish did studio albums jsut to get on the radio. most of their albums wern't that great in my opinion, but their live shows made them more money annaully than anyone else oyut there.

Antibalas is also a greatimprovosational band

 

[chrisms]

The media hasn't forced me to like anything. Most of the best artists ever have been extremely popular, not because the media told them to be but because they made great music.

 

[sygyzy]

Could it be that the music I like isn't free?

 

[IHateMyJob2004]

Originally posted by: buck

Originally posted by: IHateMyJob2004

Originally posted by: buck

Originally posted by: Inspector Jihad
cause for the music I really like, i'm willing to pay?

:thumbsup:

What you like or what hte media has forced you to like because you never heard anythign else?

What media forces me to listen to bands like:
Pepper
the expendables
slightly stoopid
cant hang
mad caddies
?


Please stop talking out of your ass and trying to peddle poor quality music.

Your telling me I am talking out my ass, when you can get live recordings of Slightly Stoopid concerts for free? You don't even know the bands you like apparently. Hard to come by, but they exist and are allowed by the band.

EDIT: And of course, that also means you went to the linked sites and reviewed the bands anddetermine not a single band is one that you like? Talking out your ass might be having no clue about hte topic being discussed and responding with comments that are not rooted in knowledge.

 

[IHateMyJob2004]

Originally posted by: sygyzy
Could it be that the music I like isn't free?

How can you say that without even looking at what bands allow their concerts to be taped?

Like what you want ... but why anyone wouldn't consider bands other than those they were introduced to on the radio is beond me.

 

[IHateMyJob2004]

Time to shower ... I'll check back later.

 

[buck]

Originally posted by: IHateMyJob2004

Originally posted by: buck

Originally posted by: IHateMyJob2004

Originally posted by: buck

Originally posted by: Inspector Jihad
cause for the music I really like, i'm willing to pay?

:thumbsup:

What you like or what hte media has forced you to like because you never heard anythign else?

What media forces me to listen to bands like:
Pepper
the expendables
slightly stoopid
cant hang
mad caddies
?


Please stop talking out of your ass and trying to peddle poor quality music.

Your telling me I am talking out my ass, when you can get live recordings of Slightly Stoopid concerts for free? You don't even know the bands you like apparently. Hard to come by, but they exist and are allowed by the band.

EDIT: And of course, that also means you went to the linked sites and reviewed the bands anddetermine not a single band is one that you like? Talking out your ass might be having no clue about hte topic being discussed and responding with comments that are not rooted in knowledge.

I know where to find live recordings of the bands that i like.
I said that in response to "What you like or what hte media has forced you to like because you never heard anythign else?"
I bought the original albums because they make good music and i want to support them.

 

[shadow9d9]

Originally posted by: chrisms
The media hasn't forced me to like anything. Most of the best artists ever have been extremely popular, not because the media told them to be but because they made great music.

I can only think of one and that is Pink Floyd.. which is actually much better live...
The best bands generally are live bands-Phish, Bela Fleck and the Flecktones specifically. I have 100s of live shows. Live phish are generally very good quality.. same with bela fleck.

 

[FoBoT]

i like XM in my car

 

[chrisms]

Originally posted by: shadow9d9

Originally posted by: chrisms
The media hasn't forced me to like anything. Most of the best artists ever have been extremely popular, not because the media told them to be but because they made great music.

I can only think of one and that is Pink Floyd.. which is actually much better live...
The best bands generally are live bands-Phish, Bela Fleck and the Flecktones specifically. I have 100s of live shows. Live phish are generally very good quality.. same with bela fleck.

Bob Dylan, Led Zeppelin, Jimi Hendrix, Soundgarden, Pearl Jam, all extremely popular artists that were shoved down our throats but I still think make great music. There are more examples but I tried to list only ones that I thought would have more of a universal appeal.

 

[bearxor]

The real question here shouldn't be "Why do people pay for music when they can get it legitimately for free?" it should be "Why the f*ck do you care?"

Do you think that because you don't buy music and listen to recordings of live concerts it makes you elite and therefore better than everyone else? Because it doesn't.

Was making the title the way it is a way to shout your eliteness without coming right out and say "I'm better than you because I listen to recorded concerts rather than spending my money on CD's or digital downloads!!!" Because that's basically what you're conveying.

If you just wanted to tell people they could download recordings of concerts of their favorite bands you could have made a thread title like "Awesome site to download live recordings of your favorite bands!" At least that doesn't sound like you're trying to insult millions of people.

 

[Slackware]

I'll download the album via BT, listen to it, if i want it i'll keep the download and donate the full $15 to the artist if there is an easy way of doing that or i'll just buy the cd.

They compared stealing music to stealing a car, i thought the comparison was outrageous but ok... I would not buy ANY car without a testdrive and maaybe only one in 100 after a testdrive.

From where i stand, they just reaped what they sowed.

 

[pontifex]

Originally posted by: IHateMyJob2004
Inspired by this thread

Why is everyone so obsessed with paying for music? There are hundreds if not thousands of bands that allow recordings of their concerts to be freely distributed.

I probably paid for 1 or two albums in the past year simply because I have been DLing free concerts.

See my sigs fro all the links you need.

EDIT: I am mostly shcoked because when I was done with college, I had over 100 cds. at $15 a CD, that's alot of cash. I pretty much stopped supoprting the recording industry in favor of supporting bands that make their money by playing music live. It's an itneresting busiess model. Get people interested in your live performances .. then more people show up to your concerts. Why give record companies money when it can be avoided?

lol, dumbest post of the year