FFShrine

Originally Posted by Tommy Tallarico

With all due respect... I feel your logic is a little flawed for one main and very important reason...

The fact is... all commerically released CD's have 30 second sample clips of every single track. More than enough to make a decision on your purchase being worth it. Because of this, I don't think you would be right justifying that you download things illegally just so you can hear them.

30 seconds are almost never enough to make a value judgement on an entire song. Songs go through different stages, they have good parts and bad parts (or good parts and not quite so good parts), and often the good parts are only effective in context. A better way to give a taster of an album is to provide a stream of several full length tracks. Even then the buyer is making a gamble, but they have the guarantee of liking at least part of what they've bought.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

I only listen to vgm from games that I've bought and played. In a lot of cases the quality of the music was a deciding factor in paying for the game. In buying the game did I not pay already to enjoy its music (and graphics, and gameplay, and...) at my leisure?

I know this doesn't apply to live and arranged soundtracks.

There's nowhere I can't reach.