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What does /mu/ think about music pirating/streaming?
Now, as a standalone concept, pirating is bad, that comes as a given. But, I think, that as the listener, we should have the ability to listen to music, before we decide to buy it. This is why I love labels such as Relapse Records, because they stream all of their music to all platforms including Youtube on their own channel. If an artists music is limited to only be bought, you don't really have any options besides buying or pirating, because we have the right to listen to the music before we buy it (I'm looking at you, King Crimson). That's my opinion anyways. Ofcourse, people who end up pirating and never buying music is inevitable.
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>>73305253
>because we have the right to listen to the music before we buy it
[citation needed]
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People are greedy and lazy pricks, and if you let them listen to a full album without restrictions only a few would get off their asses and take their money to buy the album.
I mean, I know a whole lot of bands I find god-tier and they would deserve every penny they get, and then I realize I've been listening to their music mainly on YouTube or downloaded from Soulseek.
ITAOTS has been one of my all-time favourite albums for years when I finally bought a physical copy.
On the other hand, downloading music is not theft, the band and label just loses one potential listener
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>>73305253
>as a standalone concept, pirating is bad, that comes as a given.
i completely disagree. i think entering music and art into capitalist markets inherently devalues it and terms it into a commodity.
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capitalism is inherently fucked, so pirate what you want but give money to artists if you want them to make more good stuff
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