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Buying music online vs. buying at the store

brookeburkes...	Date: October 21, 2003 @ 6:05 PM Until recently, I had no idea how much controversy there is over the whole idea of digital downloading. I just saw it as a convenient way to find and purchase music. There are those who feel that it is just another way for the labels to exploit a new medium. There are those who feel that the artist, who must already face 'greedy record label "deals"', now lose even more because now people can buy their songs by the individual track for less money ~ and the label still gets the biggest cut. There's also the question of sound quality, the visual art, lyrics, and other things related to the store-bought CDs. So this really is something people feel strongly about one way or the other. What are your thoughts? Is online digital music downloading a temporary trend or the future of the industry? Do you think it's a positive new innovation or the worst thing to happen to music since Milli Vanilli?
ashleighj	Date: October 21, 2003 @ 6:26 PM my opinion on the pay-for-downloads thing is that people are really gullible if they pay more than .25 cents or so for a compressed file of the song with DRM junk included. but to each their own. what i really want to talk about is your last sentence. milli vanilli was one of the best things to happen to music, not the worst. they took the fall no one wanted to take and exposed what a twisted and crooked business recording is. they showed music fans that the whole illusion of big major-label artists being in touch with fans was just that -- an illusion. they took the blame for the conspiracy, but anyone with any sense knew it was the record label and crew that were pulling the wool over listeners' ears. sure, the music was throw-away hit-today gone-tomorrow typical mainstream. but for the people who liked it (and being about 12 or so at the time, i thought they were pretty cool), their rise and fall had the potential to wake people up to what the industry was really up to. milli vanilli is a giant joke now, but they served the greater good, even if they didn't realize it.
invocati	Date: October 21, 2003 @ 10:26 PM My stuff is free but I sell A c.d. here on the artists page but I don't get many sales most people download my stuff.TOO much free music!!!
invocati	Date: October 21, 2003 @ 10:27 PM Sorry I'm selling it at the Dmusic Store ...THe c.d. that is.
GeneHilbert	Date: October 21, 2003 @ 11:41 PM ashleighj - you got that right
brookeburkes...	Date: October 22, 2003 @ 1:19 PM Ashleigh, you make an excellent point; the exposure itself was one of the best things to happen to music. What I was referring to was the principle behind what was exposed. In other words, do you think the subscription-based online digital music downloading trend is another crooked industry tactic, or would you say it's an inventive improvement bred from necessity?
brookeburkes...	Date: October 23, 2003 @ 12:58 PM url
brookeburkes...	Date: October 24, 2003 @ 1:39 PM Well, what do you think ~ do you like the idea?
Svensta	Date: October 24, 2003 @ 3:14 PM Not too sure, Brooke. What kind of files are these? How smarted are they, and what DRM are they loaded up with? WOuldn't that be tantamount to wheeling the trojan horse inside the walls, where they can monitor you? I will stick to free p2p, until they flood it with smarted files.
brookeburkes...	Date: October 24, 2003 @ 3:17 PM Huh? You're talking way over my head. I'm just talking about subscription-based digital music services. Sounds like you're talking about espionage!
Thaspian	Date: October 24, 2003 @ 3:18 PM Simple. Buying online, you pay just about as much as the store, just for crappy quality. At the store, you get the actual media, at perfect quality, at around the same price. Quite simple.
joshyd87	Date: October 25, 2003 @ 3:37 PM I want a pay to download site but not they way they are doing it now. I mean come on it's just not right to charge us a dollar a song and then on some of the places you can't burn it to a CDR that's bull what if I need to relad my computer? i lose all the songs i payed for? their crazy! then the one's that let you burn it have a low amount of songs and limit how many you can burn. stick to buying CDs until they get the pay to download idea done right
HeadHuntaz	Date: October 25, 2003 @ 4:04 PM MILLI VANILLI IS HOT
Zuckuss	Date: October 26, 2003 @ 7:30 PM I comine the two. I buy used cds online.
Zuckuss	Date: October 26, 2003 @ 7:31 PM Try "combine". Wireless keyboards are great until the batteries start to die.
CountryMusikMan	Date: October 28, 2003 @ 8:03 PM Online is JUst another Medium for the Evil Records Labels

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