Metal Reviews

I don't see the point of buying a dead man's album. But if I'm a big fan, I will definitely purchase it. I still buy my Bathory's and I've got few more to go.

Who cares, as long as a member of the Metal community is helping the artists they love pay the bills by purchasing albums, it can be a free-for-all as far i'm concerned. I downloaded all of Falco's albums today, which, I don't have a problem with because the man died in 2001 in a car accident. He wrote all his songs and had no children that I've heard about, so it would seem his work got "public-domained" asd far as i'm concerned. Any opinions on that from anyone? I feel no sympathy for the record company because they didn't pay to have the albums recorded (He did, they may have advanced it, but he paid for it from his royalties.)

When it comes to offspring-less solo artists who write thier music, who died, I can't think of a single reason to buy thier albums other than to contribute to a corporate record companie's greed. Unless you are supporting your local mom and pop shop (which you are not through CD sales, throw a fiver in the tip jar instead)

Another interesting thing is that I've never heard anyone say buying used LP's and CD's as being wrong, though that circumvents the musicians getting paid and representing a number in the sales of a record in favor of cheap music. Though there is something to be said for really good music not being widely available on the used market.

By their very nature, 'used' things have been bought already. It's not like they magically appear, somehow circumventing the label and artist and in some communist plot, secretly arranging things so that the people get the benefit!

What it does do is divert money away from both, in favor of cheaper products and supporting stores that will generally exploit people that want to sell. something downloading does not necessarily do.

No, downloading doesn't even give them the money the first time around.

My point is no one can prove that someone entended to buy something, but didn't because they downloaded it. I would assume downloading overall hurts, but certainly helps bands that have bad distribution and promotion.

Another interesting thing is that I've never heard anyone say buying used LP's and CD's as being wrong, though that circumvents the musicians getting paid and representing a number in the sales of a record in favor of cheap music. Though there is something to be said for really good music not being widely available on the used market.

Dez: It's gonna kill underground art. It's not gonna hurt Britney Spears and other people like that, but it's going to make the poet, the painter, the underground musician not be able to do his gig full-time, and if he can't do his gig full-time, he can't give you the art that's full-on. Gold records used to be gold records. Now they're telling you if you sell 100,000 copies that's like a gold record, so what we all say is well, where's the plaque? Change the industry standard, I want the plaque. Why are we not coming together as artists and suing iTunes and iPod? When you invent iTunes, it's supposed to accept something that was paid for, and the only way it can go from iTunes and the only way it can go onto iPod is that it was paid for so the iPod accepts it. But you know, right now, you can download illegal songs that go straight into your iTunes and iPod. So the fact that his device allows something like that, you can't go against the hugest guy in the world, but if every artist came together and just said, 'No more! You made the unit and the unit was only supposed to accept legally downloaded song and it's not, so you're the one fucking the artist. You pay everybody all the royalties that you owe from THE BEATLES on down."