here's my two cents on the argument. :)

 

I used to be a heavy buyer of physical music formats and I have plenty of CDs as evidence to show for it. During the time of the 90s, nobody had Spotify or any sort of websites that will offer streams of albums before they come out so 99% of people were buying albums blind and unless you picked a decent artist, it was always an album with about a few good songs on it and the rest was filler tracks. Nowadays, I find myself buying more and more digital albums because it keeps space to a minimum (only requiring my computer and my mp3 player) and because you can normally get digital albums for a much better price than the physical format - an example being The Killers' Battle Born which is £4.99 on mp3 at Amazon but it would cost around £9 to buy the CD of it. I remember the days of going into HMV to find an album that wasn't mainstream and seeing something like £16 as the price and then putting it down to try and find it cheaper at an independent music store

 

now the arguments of downloading albums are the usual. For instance the advert that says "you wouldn't steal a car etc" which is of course true. In my honest opinon, it allows me, a music lover, to choose which albums I want to buy rather than buy something blind and then get conned by the artist when their interviews about "the greatest album we've made" turns out to be a load of rubbish. I will either download the album before release date or stream it, see what I think of it and either end up deleting it if it''s not to my standards or go looking to buy the digital version of it when it's released at Amazon, ITunes etc. The other argument I can put in favour of downloads is I don't really follow a lot of mainstream bands apart from maybe a select few. Downloading has allowed me to gain a much bigger library of artists whom I have bought music from legally and even went to see their concerts when they've appeared in my area. Without downloading, I wouldn't have heard these bands on the radio because they don't fit a radio profile

 

Of course there are plenty out there who get the mp3s and just burn the CDs without a care for the artist but for me, downloading is a useful tool that can help music fans make a decision about buying a certain album because lets face it, nobody wants to buy a bad album and I feel that's the reason why the music industry dislikes downloading. They can't get their artists to make a crappy album that sells millions like it might have done in the 90s when there was blind buying, it has to meet a certain quality now or people will just not buy it

Edited September 18, 201212 yr by Gerry1975

They're the WORST thing to come out of France for decades. Even less talented than N-Dubz. They're also confessed homophobes.

 

They're amazing. I have no clue what their personalities are like, but whenever I've stumbled across one of their songs, I nearly always love it.

 

All their illegal downloads are probably from people who really love their songs but don't want to support them. :lol:

Edited September 18, 201212 yr by Eric_Blob