Obviously, some people could be using this as a substitute for buying. Especially if you have never heard the band at all.hence bandcamp allowing you to stream music for free. Buying music before you have heard of it is pretty risky. I don't have any other way of hearing your music to know if I like it. I listen almost exclusively in my car and don't have a phone data plan to visit in my car. We just don't sample music sitting at our computer. So why should their music be? I'm guessing that a lot of the people who use this site (probably not the person you replied to) do so in order to sample music.
I really hope this site gets taken down soon, and that people that 'enjoy' music for free grow a conscience and start helping the musicians they're 'supporting' by paying with actual money.ĭo you think the instruments, the rehearsal space, the travel to rehearsals and gigs. Bandcamp is one of the last hopes for small bands to make money, and this just trashes that. Pay for music with money, then listen to it.ĭon't just steal it. You may as well have not ever existed to them. The artists lose exactly no wealth in freely giving it to you. At best you have ownership over the plastic used to make the disc and the jewel case, but on the internet, you typically own the permission to keep your very own sequence of data just like the one they have. In purchasing a digital or physical copy of media, you obtain permission to retrieve a copy of the media. This comparison is ridiculously out of proportion. A substantially less amount of it than a car, at that.
You gain a large sum of value in just owning the metal that it is made of (aside from the fact that it is a high speed transportation machine, highly utilized in most societies today). The days when you had to shell out scrill for music you had no way of hearing first is over and we're all better for it.Ī car is material wealth. If your music moves me then (and only then) will I pay for it.
Delta Dtc 1000 Manual.Ĭheat Code Pokemon Crystal Version on this page. I'm tired of getting lambasted for 'stealing' shitty mp3's so I can sample them on my iPod in my car or when I go for a walk or whatever.ĭeerfield, Illinois. I spend thousands of dollars a year on PHYSICAL music and merch and shows AND I run a record label. You could have at least come up with a better analogy like stealing a CD from your local record store or something. Yes, because a new car is equivalent to a shit-quality 128kbps mp3. At that point, I seek shows or buying albums or paid downloads, etc. I like to listen over a month or so a number of times and enjoy growing to like a song/album/artist. The question is, at what point does one decide he likes your music?įor me, it isn't usually after just one listen. Not as much as I used to buy, but I'm pretty comfortable with it. That said, I've purchased (mostly physical, some digital) about 20 albums in the last 18 months. Whatever.as long as your are supporting, in my opinion. What reasonable person wouldn't? I've heard arguments that some people would rather pay for live shows than purchased music. Have a look at the 'About' link on the page. Enter the link to a Bandcamp(/SoundCloud) page below and we will make a new page with downloadable links for you. Welcome This is a downloader for Bandcamp (with beta SoundCloud support). Loading.If I've missed any good (potentially widely chosen) answers for the questions above, send me a comment. Please take a moment to answer the 2 question survey below which could provide some valuable information about this service's former users. The Bandcamp founder made a polite request (as opposed to a demand), and those tend to work on me. 2013.05.11Bandcamp Downloader has been taken offline.