A lot of the musicians complaining are already wealthy. Is making millions of dollars a year not good enough for them? It just seems that a lot of the people downloading the songs are teens and young adults who typically don't have a lot of money to go out and buy cd's that only have one good song.
2006-10-09 16:09:52 · 12 answers · asked by Angry 1 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Music
You've got that right ! Like Metallica crying about loosing a buck..if their Cd's wasn't twice the price of everybody else's, it might make a difference...This is nothing new..I taped songs on cassettes off of the radio 40 years ago.....
2006-10-09 16:20:50 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
Many of the musicians are, indeed wealthy, yet most of them are not.
I am one of those musicians who complains about illegal downloads. I did not make a fortune with my music, and- in fact- ended up as 90% of the musicians with recording contracts... BROKE and owing the recording companies money for records that didn't sell. One reason they don't sell is because people are (as you put it) ILLEGALLY downloading them.
One thing to think about before you download the next one:
How long would it take before you went out of business if you invented something, and opened a shop to sell it, and people just came into the shop and took it without paying you for it? How much money would you make if you sold a couple of these items, and everyone else decided to let others use the item free of charge, so that they didn't have to buy one of their own?
Something else to think about:
What would you do if you had spent YOUR time and energy writing 12-15 songs, and then spent 3 months of your life (at 12-16 hours a day) in the studio, and upwards of $100,000 producing a CD, and then you sold, maybe, 100,000 copies of the CD. You are making about $1.50 per CD, however, you are also required to pay the record company back the $100,000, then you have to pay the producer his $10,000 plus 3% of all the money you made (that's an additional $4,500), plus you have to pay the recording company an additional 25% of the total price of the CD's for the packaging (which comes out to about $250,000), plus you have to pay your manager, and your publicist, and your lawyer, and the guy who did the art work on the CD... You are into the recording company for over $400,000 before you sold the first CD... and you only made $150,000.
How long would it take you to start complaining about (using your words) ILLEGAL DOWNLOADS.
If you don't want the entire CD, and only want one song... then BUY IT!. There are too many sites where you can get one song for a measley $1.00.
2006-10-09 16:29:05 · answer #2 · answered by Bradly S 5 · 3⤊ 1⤋
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2016-10-19 03:03:27 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I wouldn't get tired of an author complaining if quotes from their book were used without royalties. It seems like music should belong to everyone, but these people are making music that comes from themselves: if you want to buy even one song, they have earned it.
If there's only one good song, they need the money from the record sale. Buy the 3.99 single.
2006-10-09 16:23:04 · answer #4 · answered by Em 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
As a (poor) musician myself, I wouldn't say that stealing music (or anything for that matter....) is a good thing, however, if someone stole my music, I'd be happy that they liked it enough to acquire it by any means. Maybe that's just me, though. Personally, I would say that while stealing is always wrong, it is much worse to steal from those who have little. So support indie music.
2006-10-09 16:19:58 · answer #5 · answered by tamesbadger 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I understand where they're coming from, it's theirs, we're paying for their services. I usually am nice. I only do it if the band tells me its ok (which a few do, it promotes their band a lot more and then they start to sell out shows and people buy merch...cause they have money).
2006-10-09 16:14:08 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
No, it doesn't bother me that they complain about the theft of their work. They should.
What bothers me is when millionaire celebrity limousine liberals go on their little hypocritcal political tirades, or give fund raisers where they ask blue collar people to donate to their charity.
2006-10-09 16:21:19 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Yes.
2006-10-09 16:16:59 · answer #8 · answered by Andrea 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
so download the song you want from iTunes for 99cents. don't be a cheap a $ $
2006-10-09 16:12:35 · answer #9 · answered by scotty_doesnt_know 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Dead tired. Wonder whatever happened to free enterprises.
2006-10-09 16:20:38 · answer #10 · answered by FILO 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋