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- IllBeBack, on 10/11/2007, -22/+190I don't buy CDs because there's usually only 1 or 2 good songs on them. That's just not good enough...
- dylanmat, on 10/11/2007, -20/+86Stop Listening to Bad Music!
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -3/+59Welcome to 30 days ago.
- FBMGriever, on 10/11/2007, -5/+47For the most part, I actually believe him. If he is talking about mainstream radio music, then yes, they are awful "artists". Every now and then you get a good one but its getting harder and harder to find. Finding just 3 good tracks on oh I dont know... Nelly Furtado's new album for example, is just not going to happen. Absolutely not worth the money.
- behn1220, on 10/11/2007, -3/+43If 99% of popular music is garbage I recommend you don't buy popular music. 99% of the good music being released these days is in no way popular and is being released by independent musicians that could really use the money. Make them popular by buying their stuff!!
- arbulus, on 10/11/2007, -3/+36I don't buy CDs because I'm tired of paying $17 for a tiny piece of plastic. There's no ***** reason CDs should cost what they do. There's really no reason that songs from the iTunes store should be $0.99. It's ***** digital, there's no hard media costs involved. $0.50 per song, $5.00 for a whole album is what it should be. They'd make a ***** killing in volume alone.
Beside the fact that it's so much easier to carry my entire music library in a device no larger than my cellphone, as opposed to lugging around a small suitcase of CDs to flip through in the car. The move away from hard media like CDs is long over due in my opinion. You want to talk about conservation of natural resources, well there's a way: stop making CDs. Go digital. Then you don't have to worry about the petrol used to make the plastic discs, the factory needed to produce them, and all of the waste products involved. If you can have everything digital as opposed to a hard media, then why not? - PueSi, on 10/11/2007, -1/+33flash drives?why? that would be stupidly expensive.
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -9/+39i don't buy cd's because most albums have a few good songs and alot of filler on them,
that and 99% of popular music is absolute ***** garbage in my opinion - coldphoenix, on 10/11/2007, -3/+31Unfortunately flash drives cost a hell of a lot more than a single CD
- Twoodge, on 10/11/2007, -2/+23I, for one, think that overused, unfunny internet clichés suck!
- P373Y, on 10/11/2007, -6/+26yes yes, the classic digg comment.
down with copy right protection
down with sony
just press printscreen - diggan8, on 10/11/2007, -0/+19I shop at piratebay.org, they have a much better selection than any music store I go to.
- mywhitenoise, on 10/11/2007, -3/+22im guessing 100% of the music you listen to is radio garbage. There's TONS of good music out there, you're just too lazy to look for it.
- detrate, on 10/11/2007, -6/+25I think I speak for everyone when I say, "duh".
- sphykik, on 10/11/2007, -6/+24I think AllofMP3 has it right. It is so much easier to sit at you desk and pay 1.50 - 3.00 on a DRM free album than to go to a store, spend 15 dollars, and then have to rip it to your ipod, an mp3 disk etc....
- hplasm, on 10/11/2007, -0/+18Newspaper sales are down too, so if the **AA are to be believed about piracy, then Xerox machine sales must be through the roof!
- ninja0, on 10/11/2007, -3/+20i usually dont buy CDs because:
A: Few good songs for about 10-15$? no thanks.
B: Generally, there are a lot of CDs I like, that I cant find. Where do i go to if I want to listen to them? you got it, the internet.
C: This DRM and piracy ***** is so ridiculous, with all the law suits and *****, no free trade, etc, that I prefer not to buy CDs jsut for the reason that it seems they are trying to force me to. Makes them look like a bunch of stuck up pricks, so no thanks, ill keep my money. - mywhitenoise, on 10/11/2007, -5/+22I buy albums. I don't buy ***** I heard off the radio based on one song. Get with the times, man.
- pr1me4, on 10/11/2007, -1/+18a lot of consumers don't have "flash drive" players.
- maddendude, on 10/11/2007, -2/+17This is why I'm hot
I dont gotta rap
I can sell a mill sell you nothing on the track - thomasknowland, on 10/11/2007, -1/+15I think the RIAA should sue the MPAA.
- MikeWanDo, on 10/11/2007, -0/+11Keyword: BUY
- mfratt, on 10/11/2007, -1/+10If I download an album that I really like, I'll usually go out and buy the CD to reward the band. For example, I had Rush's new Snakes and Arrows two weeks before it launched. On May 1st, I went down and bought it, because I had to support the guys. No RIAA crap because theyre Canadian, too ;-)
- mywhitenoise, on 10/11/2007, -0/+9haha, what's Zero Hour?
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -1/+10My problem is a new disc comes out its anywhere from $15.00 and up. The disc will have maybe 11 short songs, only which 2 of them are really any good. So here is an 80 min disc with less than half the cd filled and only 2 good songs. What a rip off
- ddxChrist, on 10/11/2007, -1/+10I don't buy CDs because I'm a starving college student.
- enki25, on 10/11/2007, -3/+11I consider my legitimate purchase of approximately 90 CDs in my lifetime, at the normal, anal probing $20/ea rate, as justification for the piracy of as many mp3s as I choose. Is this theft? Or justice?
- mywhitenoise, on 10/11/2007, -6/+14It's cheaper by about 3 bucks. You get half the quality, no album art work, no physical disc. I'm not sure why anyone would buy digital music.
- praisethelard, on 06/06/2008, -0/+6I'm still trying to figure out an algorithm for him to enjoy the arts.
- gerrylazlo, on 10/11/2007, -2/+8"It's cheaper by about 3 bucks. You get half the quality, no album art work, no physical disc. I'm not sure why anyone would buy digital music."
Your kidding, right? With iTunes I buy the songs I want and ignore the rest of the album. That can make it MUCH cheaper than buying the CD.
As for quality, there is a drop, that's true, but it's not noticeable to most people and almost impossible to tell on an ipod.
You do get digital booklets with some albums. (I assume you don't mean the covers since you always get those).
If I want a physical disc I can burn whenever I want. Plus I can put 130 songs on one CD for my car.
Digital music is cheap and convenient for a hell of a lot of people.
That being said, if I really like an album or artist, I'll usually get the CD on Half.com after the fact. - ALfuckingBUNDY, on 10/11/2007, -3/+9I still buy CDs because I know what i'm getting before hand.
- arbulus, on 10/11/2007, -0/+6Maybe they would destroy each other and we would finally be free.
- mywhitenoise, on 10/11/2007, -1/+7All these people who say albums only have 1 or 2 good songs, really don't know ***** about music. Maybe if you spent a little time finding a band that wasn't forced fed to you by MTV or your local radio stations, then you wouldn't be saying such stupid *****. Music is just as good as it is now, then ever. You have the internet, use it.
And to the person above complaining about Britney Spears' "hype". Dude, Britney Spears is over, no ones given a ***** about her for a good 5 years. - arbulus, on 10/11/2007, -0/+6That's the essence of most pop music: make 2 singles and then 8-10 tracks of pure ***** nonsense that no one ever listens to and call it an album.
Pop moguls don't want one album full of good music. They want 2-3 radio hits, that's all, because people will buy an entire album for those 2 songs, as opposed to calling it the crap it is. Then they make another album the same way, and another. So over the course of any given pop artists career (3-4 albums maybe), they've got maybe almost one album worth of anything good. That's why people who have been only making albums for 3 years can have "Greatest Hits" albums. All the ***** do is compile all of their singles into one disc, and it's the only songs of that "artist" that anyone wants to hear anyway.
It's a ***** racket. Pop music is a joke. Manufactured *****. - tidu, on 10/11/2007, -0/+5Are you human?
- PueSi, on 10/11/2007, -1/+6But if you don't listen to the whole album you're missing the point the performer was trying to make.
- VodkaAvenger, on 10/11/2007, -0/+5And you can't beat their discounts! :-D
- Waterrat, on 10/11/2007, -1/+5@bumblefoot
I agree.
I actually stopped buying pop music over ten years ago and started exploring Irish and Celtic music,which is featured on NPR's Thistle & Shamrock.
I now can no longer to listen to the crap they play on the radio. - inactive, on 10/11/2007, -4/+8Heres a HINT MUSIC has SUCKED BALLS the last 6 yrs !! And i'm not about to go out and buy a Full CD between 14.99 and 24.99 for a one hit wonder
artist ( Album or Song ) i have never even ***** heard of. Also i can speak for myself and 10000 millon others the only music i download are songs from the 70's , 80's and 90's ( when ***** was hype ) Songs you can't get anymore as singles or Albums even in a CD store if your lucky enough to find one not clustered with Britney Spear albums and Happy Face T-Shirts !!
And sorry i'm not about to pay 40 to 60 bucks on imports just cause i can't find an artists album i enjoyed 10 yrs ago!! The problem is the music industry feed us ***** for so long we got sick of it. And finally when we realized what we were eating was ***** and played out big America ***** boy bands and White wannabe rappers and hokey fake rock and pop junk etc Music sales plummeted.
If the MUSIC industry would have stuck to the formula the worked in the 70's , 80's and 90's ***** wouldn't be a mess in the 2000's !!! The artist aren't artist anymore !! And their singing sucks !!
- benny87, on 10/11/2007, -1/+5lets not blame the record labels for your poor taste in music...
- n1pz, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4Then you don't have to worry about a thing!?
- Error601, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4Not "most". Just pop music. They have to make up that huge marketing budget by spreading out the good tunes over multiple albums.
- idonthack, on 10/11/2007, -2/+6@twoodge
I'm an overused, unfunny internet cliché, you insensitive clod! - lvpro, on 10/11/2007, -3/+7Every generation has had good music and bad music, and every previous generation thinks their music was good, and the current generation is bad. Saying that all music today sucks is ignorant and lazy.
- FleetAdmiral, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3I'd love to read that one, "RIAA sues MPAA for not obtaining proper licensing and reproducing the full songs in credits of movies, MPAA counter suing for the cost of advertising music in popular movies."
- mywhitenoise, on 10/11/2007, -5/+8I download a ton of music. I have about 500 physical albums, and about another 400 on mp3. You'd have to be a real idiot to not think piracy has some effect.
- Merkidemis, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3I find it annoying that in many cases, the soundtrack is more expensive then the movie itself. Figuring that logic out without coming down to some label making a good chunk of each disk makes my head hurt.
- ExSlashdotter, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3if you're going to physically distribute ANY digital material, name a format thats better than CD.
CD's are super-cheap, have plenty of storage space (for music anyway), and every computer or car sold easily within the last 10 years has one. - MrFlesh, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3The 80's formula is what we have right now. Bands and thier looks are designed and put together by PR agents and advertisers.
- PueSi, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3Yeah 128MB SD cards are cheap but a 700MB CD is much cheaper.
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