>Well in a way they do promote music and bands but in an easy to abuse way.
If I am thinking of buying a CD of lets say The >Gestures, how do I know if
I am getting a good wallop for my buck? Well I trot on over to the
newsgroups and see if I can find their >music to try out. If I find them
and I like them I buy 'em, if not I delete them. Simple as that. Thats
what I have used them for and I >feel very comfortable doing it.
Depends what way you look at it. Way I see it it's a bit like having stuff
on tape - when I was at school I ended up with probably hundreds of tapes -
now I've got about 20, and bought thousands of records and CDs - a lot of
them stuff I had on tape. Now I know there were definitely people at school
who never got beyond having stuff on tape, but it's kind of a no loss
situation - they're not the sort of people who'd have bought it anyway. Then
again, a lot of that is like the same reasons people buy videos of something
they could tape for free of the TV or buy down the market for a third of the
price, or original 45s over re-issues - seems that given the choice a lot of
people will buy the real deal.
Real question is what will happen when people start selling their music that
way - might prefer an original 45 to a bootleg, but if you're talking a
legitimate MP3 versus a 'bootleg' one, there's not really much of an
emotional investment in it being the real thing.
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