Yes, but if they are going to steal the music anyway...
There is also the fact that artists don't make a majority of their money off album sales. I'm not saying people should never buy albums because as I said I still do and am more than willing to buy every album by bands and artists I like. However, if someone downloads an album, goes to see a show by that artist, buys merchandise....isn't the artist making money still? Again, I'm saying if the alternative is that the person downloading would never go to the show and never buy merchandise because they would have never heard the album because they had no intention of buying it.
Really, it boils down to the fact its not a white and black issue. Sure, there is idiots on both sides of the argument but at the very core it's not 100% right either way. I have found TONS of music that I now own dvd's, cd's, shirts, etc of after downloading a couple songs by said artist. I should have made it clear before that I very rarely download an entire album unless it's something I really figured I would not ever expect to spend money on. Mostly, I download a few songs and if I dig them...I buy the album for the rest of the songs, better quality, art work, etc.
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Back to you saying ":( I will tell on you if you post my friend's music on here because no one buys his music" ...if people download his stuff and like it, tell him to make some kickass merchandise and play some shows if he can. Those people will go!
Remember when Saul Williams gave away his cd for free with just the choice of payment and of course most people chose not to pay? Trent Reznor was upset and pissed off about it. Saul was extremely happy though as more people were listening to his album than ever before and it resulted in him selling loads of merch and having a really successful tour.
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