[pp.int.general] Protest certain musicians?

[David Arcos]

On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 11:36 AM, Christian Hufgard <pp at christian-hufgard.de
> wrote:

>
> 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.
>

I don't want to pay for the music I won't like.
So I prefer listening it before supporting it. And I want to support it by
going to the concert.

Note that you're talking about "cheques". Cheques are from the past, we are
in the "paypal" era.

 > 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...
>

As "free" as downloading it from myspace, jamendo or bittorrent...

In fact, here in Spain (and I suppose in other countries too) the artists
have to PAY to be in the top-lists!
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