The Idiocy of Purchasing Music

[Zero]

Isn't this the same board that has a problem with white people being the primary consumer of hiphop?

Yet in here proudly stating they don't buy albums?

 

[Tommy Sheppard]

nikka I'm hitting a Curen$y concert Wednesday.

I just downloaded his whole discography to get in the mood tho

Im going to one in a few weeks and did the same thing


fukk I look like supporting a nikka who owns a Ferrari

 

[Uncle_Ruckus]

Isn't this the same board that has a problem with white people being the primary consumer of hiphop?

Yet in here proudly stating they don't buy albums?

OP gave a perfect answer to this. If record labels didn't rob people for extra dollars on these albums maybe we'd be more motivated to buy them.

Record labels got y'all fools buying DIGITAL albums for $14.99, the same price they was when they had manufacturing, shipping, and other cost

Paying $10+ for a digital album. FOH. I ain't white with rich parents giving me allowance. I work hard for my money. fukk making rich people richer. Go support the artist by going to their concert when they in town.

 

[The_Sheff]

I have Spotify but apparently the artists dont get paid much off that either.

But whatever, like another poster said they aint talking about shyt but how rich they are and all the hoes they fukkin so they dont need my 15 bucks anyway.

 

[drhook94]

I'm just not into the scary emails my ISP mails me.

It's impractical for me to go to jail on some shyt like that.

 

[Buckeye Fever]

I downloaded To Pimp A Butterfly, but still aint play that shyt yet

 

[drhook94]

I downloaded To Pimp A Butterfly, but still aint play that shyt yet

Don't ever listen to it. Those unplayed illegitimate downloads will be worth a lot in the future.

 

[Imhotep]

What if the shoe is on the other foot and as a struggling artist has said you have spent 40+ hours per song and who knows how much money on promoting+marketing, sleepless nights hoping to recoup only to log onto the coli and see the top thread reads



DaBruinz New Album in Spoiler Brehs. EAT!!!!!!!

 

[Ski Mask]

And I I hope the same people who support this kind of thinking aren't the same ones who get pissed at the artists who cater(c00n it up) to those who do pay.

 

[Juggalo Fred]

OP is broke as fukk

 

[Uncle_Ruckus]

OP is cheap as fukk

Fixed.

we aint wasting money on rich people.

 

[Juggalo Fred]

Fixed.

we aint wasting money on rich people.

I did have to shake my head when this nerd I went to school with posted on FB that he bought 5 copies of the last Drake album the day it came out

i never wanted to smack someone through a computer screen so bad

 

[FlyRy]

Not just music. I wouldn't pay $30 for a bluray in 2015 when all that shyt is online a week before release anyways. The way video games are so expensive, I download everything. TV Shows, Music, Movies. Money don't grow on trees in my house like most of the Cacs on here that be buying 2 of the same album to "show support" with their parents money. fukk that shyt. fukk cable, fukk iTunes and fukk Cineplex.

i hear ya bruh but the blu's aint 30.. they're usually 18.99 or 19.99 once release week comes..but i hear ya..i bought a ton of them..but then i was like why am i buying movies that are already on my HDD and it's easier to play them to my tv digitally then getting up and inserting a disc. i'll still cop joints i really love though

this media aint freeeeeeeeeeeee (kendrick voice)

 

[Nigerianwonder]

OP makes a good point. I dont mind CD's and vinyl cause you get the physical product, booklet, and artwork. The price is way too high for digital albums. should no more and 4.99. And I never understood the pre-order thing for digital either. Why give these companies your money in advance for something you can buy the first day it comes out?

 

[hatechall]

I haven't bought music in over ten years, and don't understand why anybody would. Especially rap music, which doesn't have much replay value anyway.