The technology exists for me to rip my own, but I don't own the tech, and someone else does. At this point, if the industry wants me to buy an entire CD, they're going to have to give me a taste of what's there, or I'll just pass it by, assuming it's the same crap they've been pushing.īy the same token, if I own the actual vinyl of something, I don't feel particularly bad downloading a rip of that music. There will always be people like me who will pay for music, but I'll be damned if I'm going to buy prepackaged, teenybopper, pop masquerading as music. Bootlegs from their American concerts sent to listeners in Europe is how they finally broke the international barriers. Heck, back in the days before Metallica became evil, they used to let tapers stand up in the sound board area to record. If the music industry would just get off their 20th century addiction to "units" and start thinking of how to recapture the audience, perhaps we could stop criminalizing kids who want to hear tunes.īootlegs and whatnot have always been a part of the industry. I didn't have an invite, but really, shutting down sites like this is like trying to cork a sieve.
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