The idea of buying and selling music is complicated. On one hand it is up to the listeners to support the artist, because if they don't then all artists would be homeless beggars littering the streets. There would not be any money for them to produce the music, unless they had a 'day job' but then, generally, their music would suffer because it wouldn't be their main focus. Therefore, the right thing to do is to properly buy the music. On the other hand, you have the producers who charge so much money for everything, that the cost of listening to music becomes ridiculous. It is understandable that producing music cost a lot of money, but it seems to me that the higher up on the totem pole you are in the industry, the more money you can charge for the production of a single record. I do occasionally purchase a CD from a store, but I really don't like to because it adds to clutter. I'll get the CD bring it home, rip it to my laptop, sync it to my Zune, and be done with it. The CD is then just sitting there. But if I was to purchase it from say Itunes, the middle ground, and it's cheaper.
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I agree that it is up to the listener to support the artist (but I do not actively do that even though I should). Sometimes, though, when the artist puts their music out there to be free, it helps gain fans. ex. Pretty Lights--you can go to their website and download all of their albums for free which is awesome.
ReplyDeleteI agree with you i think itunes is the way to go. Consumer pricing and less clutter. It fixes everything. Although downloading illegally seem so simple and easy it is good to do the right thing
ReplyDeleteI think if we're going to be real about it, we all know that it's wrong to get something that was intended to be sold for free. But we all can agree that when it's so easy and doing it the right way is less appealing than doing it the wrong way then it's really hard to fork over that money.
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