[pp.int.general] Protest certain musicians?

Christian Hufgard pp at christian-hufgard.de
Thu Oct 29 11:36:45 CET 2009


David Arcos wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 11:19 AM, Christian Hufgard
> <pp at christian-hufgard.de
>> wrote:
>
>> That works for only a very small range of artists. Others would like to
>> rely on cd sales. Why cannot you respect their wishes - or listen to
>> free music otherwise?
>>
>
> Why should I buy an obsolete plastic support, the CD? I don't even have a
> CD
> player (my last laptop don't even have CD/DVD reader). I'm sorry, but
> they're not getting my money in that way.

Buy the mp3. The ogg or the flac. Support the artist by sending him cheques.


> To be consistent, I suppose those artists music won't be played freely (as
> in "gratis") in the radio/TV, right? So maybe they're an smaller range of
> artists than the ones in my example...

If you believe, that content in tv/radio comes for free, we still have to
discuss a lot...


Christian



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