Re: Strong Words from Simmons...

On Thu, 15 Nov 2007 11:30:06 -0500, themeekshallinherit@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
(Spinal Kiss) wrote:

On 15 Nov 2007 16:07:52 GMT, The Chris <cabell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20071114/music_nm/kiss_dc_1


He's not wrong about what he's saying, and he's not the only musician
to come out with such thoughts. That being said, it's the record
company's ignorance, arrogance and years of systematic abuse of the
consumer that has them in the straights they are in today.





That isn't why the illegal downloading is happening. That is being
done by kids that weren't even alive when those years of record
company abuse happened. It's happening because it can be done without
getting caught and instead of paying 17 or 18 dollars, they pay 50
cents for a blank CD.
People steal. Also, they have a sense of entightlement like they are
"owed" something, which of course they aren't. They think the artists
are greedy and don't deserve any more money. That's bull***. It isn't
up to the consumer to determine how much money is enough. Every single
penny a musician gets paid from a CD is deserved and they are owed
that money. If not, then don't buy it.


Technology will always trump technology, so you'll never see illegal
file sharing go away. What the industry needs to do is give these kids
a reason to buy something. Nice packaging at a fair price (no single
CD should price out at more than $7.99) seems logical.



You don't get to arbitrarily decide how much a CD is worth. That's not
up to you to decide. You don't get to determine how much you intend to
pay before it becomes acceptable to you to illegally download it. The
market decides what a fair price is, not you, and not some thief
either.



My attitude is ambivalence towards the record companies. For decades
they raped us with extortionary pricing and had the balls to not see
the bomb in their laps when it was placed there. Now as an adult who
can afford to buy what I want, I find very little out there in the way
of quality product because labels do very little investing in bands
these days. It's really unfortunate but everyone loses, even the kids
downloading *** for free. How you ask? Just look at the quality of
music they're fed these days....

db



No one forced you to buy anything. Rape is the use of force. Unless
the record companies took your money against your will, you weren't
"raped". If you made the decision to pay what you thought was an
unfair price, that's your problem and no one deserves to be "punished"
for that in the guise of illegal downloading.

Either pay the sticker price or do without. Period.
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