I am curious as to the percentage of peoples music is bought, or downloaded / copied.

My question: What % of your music have you bought from the band, and not downloaded or copied from someone else?

if a band has there music on the "top 10", ill download the song/cd, cuase there making mad money as it is

i download random bands, see if i like it, and then quite possibly buy the cd, if i wasnt able to hear these songs by downloading them, i wouldnt of know about the band and would of not bought the cd. ive discovered some great bands or DJ i never even heard of from downloading there music and then went out and bought the CD


i say MP3 arnt makings companys lose money, they are helping new bands become big,
besides popularity goes up when more poeple hear the music, but then concert sales go and and CD sale go down a tweak (even tho billions of poeple STILL BUY THEM!!!, do these big corporations really need to add another story to their house), and this makes them made cuase they make their money from the CDs and not the concerts......

I bought many record albums made of vinyl. I copied them onto my PC and share them with the world. Seeing as how I own the records what or who is going to tell me what I can do with my own records? If I feel like sharing them that's my concern and not the CD police!! If I want I can and have recorded music over the radio stations that I have also put on my PC. Can they say I've stolen their property when they play it for free over the radio?? I think not and anyone who goes to court will have the laws on their side if they appeal the laws as they are now being enforced. I hope someone appeals very soon to show that we can all share without the fear of fines or imprisonment for sharing something we already own!.

A valid question...and one that the RIAA would love the answer to :D

I buy music and download music....I download that with which I am unfamiliar to see if i like it, but it is the impetus to my buying it if I do....I have put more money in the pockets of the record companies and artists BECAUSE of being able to download that which I am unsure of, than the other way around....

I volunteered to be subpoenaed....my downloading habits have enhanced their sales, not the other way around....

CD sales have lost 20 percent of what they sold last year and are still declining. Just a fact that I would like to share.

Originally posted by cosmictraveler
CD sales have lost 20 percent of what they sold last year and are still declining. Just a fact that I would like to share.

A valid statistic, but not in any way related to file sharing/downloading....:) The province of less good music being put out there and the economy...

My attitude/approach is very similar to that of "A Canadian". I used to buy CD's when I was single and CD's were not that expensive then now, so my collection is not that bad I think. Today I mostly dl music and I noticed that I do not listen much of what I dl - usually I listen to new album just once or twice and that's it. Not that they are bad - there are a lot of talented bands around, but somewhat there is lack of originallity (or there is originallity, but that's the only thing - the music is poor and boring). So I seldom buy new CD's now. The only exception is classical music - there I demand the best quality possible, so when I decide I want something, I buy it (but I have also huge classical collection from the past...)

Some recent bands that I consider outstanding ("recent" means last 5 years or so): Melechesh, Orphaned Land, Ulver, Lacrimosa, Dargaard, Amorphis, Paragon, Liquid Tension Experiment, Ayreon

Classical music - Magdalena Kozena (excellent mezzosopranist), Maxim Vengerov - no.1 violin virtuoso, and of course - Pace de Lucia is still as good as he used to be (but personally I prefer his older albums - maybe with the exception of his interpretation of Concierto de Aranjuez - pure marvell!).

I would like to share the fact that while CD sales dropped 20% last year, the 14% drop in the release of new titles over the same time period probably had *something* to do with it.


And I download music. I also have 300-odd CD's, though only because I have friends who own a CD store. If I had to pay $17 per CD, I'd download alot more. Were the members of the RIAA to get off their asses and follow market demand - cease their price-fixing actions and simply allow the demand for their product determine the price, they might see a larger volume of sales. This might, however, also cause a reducing in the amount of $$ brought in annually (phe4r).

Why are downloaders being chased and sued, when 80% of the illegal market for CD's comes from the illegal physical copying of CD's; which are then sold on street corners for $9? Given the costs for producing a CD, a price around $9.45 (ie +6% sale tax) is both possible and would drive people to buy much more music. Album art, better quality sound, and legality!
It's breaking that $10 bill that really kills sales. Evidenced by those same friends with the used CD store. The mental difference between $9.99 and $10.01 is *HUGE*, logical or not.

Originally posted by cosmictraveler
CD sales have lost 20 percent of what they sold last year and are still declining. Just a fact that I would like to share.


yeah, and the population is going up....
its gonna even out eventully...

screw them i say, they are being babys, most poeple just download one or 2 songs from one band anyways, if they wanna increase there sales they should put more shit onto their CD and have special offers and other junk


I PRAISE the band THE OFFSPRING! they dont give a rats ass if poeple download their songs, they are rich as it is, and they dont give a flying fuck


but the more these companys fight it, the more WE, THE POEPLE, are going to fight back, they cant controll the internet, if it comes down to it, poeple will start making differnt files/programs to play music and such

its all realy sinical... and stupid


and the idea of CD sales droping, mabey poeple are finding new stuff that the radios and "music videos" dont play, and they liking that music better than the stupid top 40 stuff... (i hate being told what to like, i never even watch the music awards)

there are alot of bands i never knew existed and tunes i never thought possible out there, and i would not of heard of them if it wasnt for MP3s. there are ALOT of un-popular bands and DJs out there that just are as good as the greats, so i feel that these mp3s are giving them some credit as well

besides, half the stuff i download isnt even found on CDs, some of the rare live DJ sets, and remixed and remixed again popular songs, and thoes good ol white lables


if you like trance/dance/techno, look for "One Trance Party - KFC networks" on winmx or kaaza or whathave you. its a internet radio brodcast, 9 hours long and only a 100 meg file.... crappy bitrate but im not complaining. am i going get sued for downloading a MP3 that was a radio brodcast to begin with huh?



FYI: even tho i love metallica (old school metallica for sure), i feel like we all should give LARs a swift kick in the teeth for starting all this crap!

hellllll no i don't buy cds lol.....i'm the euro/club techno kind of stuff, so either download songs, burn cds from people, or mix my own :)

Sometimes I buy a CD, but only very rarely. When I was younger I was buying CDs all the time. And then at one point you realize that most of what you bought is not worth the money. When I moved to another country I only took less than 10 CDs with me. Nowdays I get most stuff from copying CDs from someone else. But that is also rare, because there is not that much good music.

I never DL. I would if I felt I needed, but I don't feel the need.

i never buy cds in the first place. i dont have the money. and im not going to waste $15 on something thats is going to have two songs on it that i like, and i will be sick of in a month. and, wether i were to buy them or not, i still have to download any music i want to mix for dance.

The sentence "being way too cheap" com in to mind

Two or three a year....

I don't want anything that the "new" bands are playing for most of them sound the same which is like shit!

nope, but being way too broke to furnish christina aguilera's shoe collection does.

i work as a nail tech. last week, every check that was written to me bounced. i didn't spend any money and i was overdrafted. so no, im not cheap, im broke.

I buy CD's when I like the music. The only time I'll download music is

a) it's standard classical music, like Beethoven's 5th or 9th.

b) I already purchased the music, and I'm too stupid to transfer directly from my disc to the computer.

c) if it's legal shareware, like music to a really old video game.

Buying CDs means you're paying people to have fun. Having fun is not work.
Laying bricks is work. Cleaning streets is work.
Despite the long hours and effort it takes to write, practice, and record a good CD, it's still having fun.