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Originally Posted by The Flying Mouse
 There was a study saying that everyone who lived in the north of England should move to the south of England.
There is a dude online who wrires fan fiction about meeting Roy Orbison and wrapping him in clingfilm.
There are a lot of strange people on the internet  |
Yup. A lot of narrow minded people too.
It makes total sense. I download a CD, I start to take a liking to the artist, I buy their records because I want the artwork, additional media, lyric book and the fact that I want to support an artist that I like.
I still buy the same amount of CDs as I have for the last 20 years... I just have a much larger collection of music. Most of which I never listen to anyway.
Look at downloading as an extended form of the radio. Only I get to listen to the entire thing as opposed to the single...
And in case you haven't noticed... People are still buying music. Money is coming in. It's just going into the pockets of more people as opposed to a select few.
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I will agree with you if you can give me a date and time of the last time anybody from a record company put a gun to your head and told you to "buy the motherf*cking album" 
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Wow.
It's what you listen to on the radio, TV, etc. with the Internet you get to listen to a wider variety of artists than what major or local labels would promote.
I dunno about you, but before the Internet I bought what was advertised on TV, played on the radio, whoever they were interviewing that I found interesting, etc...
I can name dozens of artists who I would NEVER have heard of if I didn't download their music. No way in hell. Mostly smaller bands.
Do you hear Stratovarius complaining?
Symphony X?
Vitalij Kuprij?
Mark Boals?
Yngwie malmsteen?
Tony macalpine?
Planet X?
Who DO you hear complaining?
Metallica
Puff Daddy
JayZ
Etc...
Than you have artists such as NIN and radiohead, who rather than fight reality, they embrace it.