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Originally Posted by Fatt
I like to buy all of my media legit, as I have some satasfaction knowing that the industry is becoming stronger. If I buy more hip-hop music, the hip-hop industry becomes stronger.
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Not to attack you or anything, but you're really naïve.
Do you
really think you're helping a musician when you buy a CD? The real answer is: no it doesn't. A majority of the sales in a CD goes to the record label, and maybe a few dollars goes to the band/musician/artist.
The numbers have proven this. Reports about it have been out for
years. The music industry is easily the most broken industry in America, and we've
let it go to that. To say you buy an album to support an artist is almost
mocking them.
This is why I refuse to buy any CD's. It not that I don't want to support muscians that I like, it's that I
know it's not really helping them regardless. I'm using my wallet to send a message that I don't like how the record industry does things.
Artists who really want to make something stay on an independent label, specifically, one that isn't owned by a major record label (aren't they referred to as "The Big 4" or something?). They may not get all the glory as other artists, but they still at least
control what they produce. And when you buy a CD, you really do support them. Usually you have to buy it right from the artists themselves.
Jam it back in, in the dark.
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