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Originally Posted by adidasss
how can anyone listen to a band that stood at the forefront of the battle against napster.seeming that they're supposed to be an "alternative" band i was completely shocked by their actions. why did they do that when we know they're rolling in money. if they never published another album they would still live like kings. i'll tell you why..because they're corporate lackeys. i could understand if it was britney spears who was created by the industry to make money, but the main goal for alternative bands should be just creating good music and spreading the vibe.i'll tell you who are real musicians, the ones that don't care about getting rich, but only care about creating good music, like Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, who, when Metallica came to Croatia and then canceled their concert just hours before it was supposed to be held ,because they didn't think they made enough money from the tickets, came in front of the place where it was supposed to happen with acoustic guitars and just entertained the people who stud stupefied in front, and then later did a free show in another club for all the people who were stud up. Now those are REAL musicians, not, to paraphrase Kurt Cobain ,"corporate cock metal" that is Metallica.
p.s.: not to mention that they're real bitches in real life...i saw this documentary about them, and they were all talking about their feelings like some women...you won't see Zach de la Rocha or Cedric Bixler speaking about how " they've really grown as people and went through some tuff times but have talked about it and grew stronger.." yada yada...
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The way i see it, i saw M about 15 times in my life every year the tickets got higher, most of their CDs ive bought a dozen or more times, (Im old) LOL i have seen Cliff Burton at the Whiskey, posters T-shirts Patches Hats DVDs a closet full of Rock magazines featuring them, you name it i bought it because it feature them. over a half a lifetime on can rack up alot of junk. i paid for my downloads a hundred times, i have over 30k albums, tapes and cds, i have alot invested in music, but a 16yr old kid looking for new music dows not.
what i think should have been done about the whole napster thing was this.
napster was/is an online application for sharing music, therefore it can have certain commands written into it like limiting the kbps that a file can be downloaded at all files uploaded could have been converted to 128kbs low quality but it gives you a chance to sample the music before you buy it, and no loss to the artist record company and most of all napster, would have benifited all, but the M crew are Bay area weenies bunch of greedy liberals.
it seems hollywood has even turned on us as well as advertisers, its all about the money, but the music industry went after recordable tapes in the 80s then the mp3 format in the 90s and shortly after the started picking on us. i know people who got 2 and 3 thousand dollar BULLY letters stating they is no offer of a settlement please pay this amount. fortunately when i got my letter i had very little on my machines that i downloaded without having. maybe 1000 songs today out of over a million i have digitaly stored. the UPCs i scanned them one page each and sent 11 bundles of paper to the lawyers office that sent me the letter without ever opening the second box all scans were returned to me unopened and the issue was dropped .and sticking them with the postage both times. what i want to know is how they had a list of every file on my computers , not just the mp3s but every file? were my rights violated for profiteering? who gave anyone the right to enter my home and violate my computer without my permission? stand up to for yourself you may gain more ground than you would normally, you are your own responsiblity and yours alone. and most of all stand up to the entertainment business, if we dont it will cost us 10 times what it does to go to a movie just to watch or listen to it at home, they want to charge you for the convience? like 7-11.
example Blue-Ray yeah looks great, after almost 2 decades of DVD of course it does its about time, took them long enough should we get a discount? oh hell no now we want you to pay more even though we have know about the tech for years and could have used it, we just werent finished milking you yet. i say download like hell and store it on an external drive, paybacks a bitch...Starting with M