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Old 11-07-2010, 11:19 PM   #25 (permalink)
docfunkenstein
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Originally Posted by Pedestrian View Post
I think a better analogy is that you wouldn't buy a painting for your livingroom without viewing it first. That's why I'll download for the first listen, and buy if I want to hear it again.
there's ilike.com, which lets you listen to a full song once, before only letting you listen to the 30 sec clips iLike Help Center


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Originally Posted by music_phantom13 View Post
80%? Not sure where you got that but most artists get far less than 20% of the profits when you buy an album, to be sure. I'm sure any musician would be extremely lucky to make a dollar off every album sold. And keep in mind that comes after enough albums have been sold to pay off the record companies for whatever you owed them.
whatever. point is it's some ridiculously unjust number
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