on the other hand, I'm guessing you wouldn't buy a 20x16 oil painting based a 2x2 crop of that painting. Yet this is what music artists, most of them anyway, expect you to do... they put their best track or two on the radio, and then expect you to buy an album based on that. Hell, some of them can't even get on the radio. Am I supposed to buy an album just because an obscure German 'zine said it was good?
If I'm going to spend $15 on a CD, I want to know what's on that CD.
Now, sure, downloading an album for free that you would otherwise pay for certainly hurts the artist (or at least, it hurts the artist's label), but I don't buy into the idea that every download is theft. YMMV.
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Date: 2005-05-10 06:41 pm (UTC)If I'm going to spend $15 on a CD, I want to know what's on that CD.
Now, sure, downloading an album for free that you would otherwise pay for certainly hurts the artist (or at least, it hurts the artist's label), but I don't buy into the idea that every download is theft. YMMV.