<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 11:36 AM, Christian Hufgard <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:pp@christian-hufgard.de">pp@christian-hufgard.de</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="im"><br>
David Arcos wrote:<br>
> On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 11:19 AM, Christian Hufgard<br>
> <<a href="mailto:pp@christian-hufgard.de">pp@christian-hufgard.de</a><br>
>> wrote:<br>
><br>
>> That works for only a very small range of artists. Others would like to<br>
>> rely on cd sales. Why cannot you respect their wishes - or listen to<br>
>> free music otherwise?<br>
>><br>
><br>
> Why should I buy an obsolete plastic support, the CD? I don't even have a<br>
> CD<br>
> player (my last laptop don't even have CD/DVD reader). I'm sorry, but<br>
> they're not getting my money in that way.<br>
<br>
</div>Buy the mp3. The ogg or the flac. Support the artist by sending him cheques.<br></blockquote><div><br>I don't want to pay for the music I won't like.<br>So I prefer listening it before supporting it. And I want to support it by going to the concert.<br>
<br>Note that you're talking about "cheques". Cheques are from the past, we are in the "paypal" era.<br><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="im">
> To be consistent, I suppose those artists music won't be played freely (as<br>
> in "gratis") in the radio/TV, right? So maybe they're an smaller range of<br>
> artists than the ones in my example...<br>
<br>
</div>If you believe, that content in tv/radio comes for free, we still have to<br>
discuss a lot...<br></blockquote><div><br>As "free" as downloading it from myspace, jamendo or bittorrent...<br> <br></div></div>In fact, here in Spain (and I suppose in other countries too) the artists have to PAY to be in the top-lists!<br>