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Originally Posted by golgi body
Do you make a living off of your music? If not, then your singing in a band is just a hobby. Perhaps one day you'll 'make it', which I take to mean writing and producing music becomes your sole source of income. When that happens I bet you'll be pissed when your livelihood, and not million dollar homes and cars, but actual ability to pay rent on a month to month basis, rests in the hands of people who think they're on a crusade to take down 'big evil corporations'. This will be at your expense, and should you decide to remain independent, then let's really hope you have a lot of generous fans and not ones who assume you're making "way too much money".
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No I am not a rock star obviously, but what I'm getting at is that musicians make a lot more money than just from their album sales. The point I was trying to make is that music is a form of art and if your a real artist then you will suck it up and take what you get. There are thousands of big bands out there that have their music stolen every day and they still live in their big mansions and drive their fancy cars because they make up for all that money by playing concerts and selling merchandise. Back in the 80s and 90s no one really had computer access to download music so they were forced to buy albums, however concerts and merchandise were also a hell of a lot cheaper. So to make my point I don't really see how it is effecting them. As far as I'm concerned, the bands that are making such big deals about this are just greedy.
I'm not saying that it isn't wrong to pirate music, I'm just saying that it's wrong for different reasons, from a consumer's standpoint in it being unfair to other consumers who are paying for music.
A real artist would be happy that their music was getting out there and that people actually want to listen to them.