Originally Posted by Pobodys_Nerfect

Well if the band is half decent then people will. I downloaded Matisyahu's discography last Friday listened to it, liked it, then saw that he was coming to town on Monday so I went out and bought a ticket for myself, a friend, then at the show I bought a t-shirt. Altogether I spent $75 dollars which for the most part go directly to the band rather than the two or three bucks that would've gone to the band if I went out and bought all three of their CD's.

I also don't always download for free, there is a paywebsite called amiestreet.com that has a good share of Independent bands up for download at far cheaper rates than anywhere else. Usually somewhere between free and $5.00 for an entire CD at 320 kb/s. I wrote an article two weeks ago for the MB Zine about downloading music and how if anything it's opened the door for a lot of new artists.

Originally Posted by Sansa Stark

I'm down with Jesus, in that case.