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From: "J.T." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>you havent answered the question! you still have people making
>money off of the artists despite not having done anything. i cant
>
>hahaha what they did is they bought the record!!
SO DID THE BOOTLEGGERS. neither is entitled to make money off of
the artists IMO. and really, the record dealer is making crazy
percent profit getting music into the hands of one person while
the bootlegger is making a much lower percentage getting the music
into many peoples hands. i find each to be equally wack.
>its called an investment!
thats funny, i call my music "records" not "investment". that
attitude is wack.
>many things can appreciate in value! they're not making
>money "off the artist" which i take it you mean as cutting the
>artist out of money they should be getting.
so would you pay a collector $50 for a record you could buy in
print for $7? theyre taking potential buyers of the in print
record away.
>the artist got the
>money they were owed. either the seller bought the record while ?
>the record was in print, in a manner that the money travelled
>down the line from shop to distrib to label to artist -- or
>somebody along the line did, if you're buying it used in a record
>store.
again, so did the bootlegger.
>damn is this really that difficult for you?
it sure is.
>price is justified by supply and demand. thats it. bootleg is
>justified by nothing because it is illegal theft. somebody
>selling a rare record has something to do with the record -- they
>bought it -- if they bought it new, their money even travelled
>down the line to the artist (hopefully). and it's legally theirs.
honestly, in my eyes none of these people are acting in a pure
manner. neither side is defensible. buying a record doesnt entitle
you to sell it for crazy $$ or to bootleg it.
>you can build a house and sell it to someone; when they sell it
>years later, and the house has appreciated in value, it doesnt
>mean you are owed anything. the whole thing went down nice and
>legal and its all done see. bootleggers have nothing to do with
>the record tho, yes -- thay have no legal right to do what they
>do. see like laws and property and the bigger economic picture
>have a lot to do with this. stop philosophizing you dreamer
philosophy and dreaming are much better than gouging someone for
rare records. you cant justify that to me, no matter how you try.
the way i look at it, if youre down to buy into the capitalist
system for the good it can give to you, you have to understand the
bad things that come with it. i think YOURE the dreamer for
thinking that people care what you think about the "theft" that
bootleggers do. even you dont care enough to not buy them yourself
which makes your argument hold even less water.
tmo
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