The Idiocy of Purchasing Music

[Doomsday]

I'm scratching my head at the concept that people are too poor to buy a 9 dollar album but have computers and fast enough internet connections to download them.

Not a hard concept at all. How much money do you save going to the dollar menu instead of grocery shopping? Prolly only about 10 dollars, but obviously to a lot of people that's enough of a difference in their survival.

If it's that serious to make a thread over something that doesn't cost more than 10 dollars at a time (no more than 60 dollars a year), then it's obviously something you can't afford. Nothing wrong with that, but it gets annoying when instead of just admitting that, you try to turn it into a social issue when there isn't anything there to make an issue out of.

 

[1/2OfDaBruinz]

I used to download albums all day but i went ahead and got Spotify. That way i can put SOMETHING in the artist pocket and support the art by streaming the music i like. 9.99 for the premium a month aint shyt and it still helps the artist.Kendrick just made 60,000 off of Spotify in one day and i was part of that and it cost me next to nothing. If you're a fan of music the least you can do is buy a streaming account.

 

[ℒℴѵℯJay ELECTUA]

then cry when your fave artist has no desire to release any more music..

 

[Tommy Sheppard]

then cry when your fave artist has no desire to release any more music..

only 90's artist who are too lazy to get off their ass and tour have this issue.

 

[OnlyInCalifornia]

Yeah, 0.99 per song is SO MUCH MONEY *WHA WHA* HOW CAN I SURVIVE WITHOUT THAT DOLLAR I SPENT ON A SONG I LIKED!

.

*drinks 14 dollar watered down jack and coke at club*

*comes home and complains about an album being 8.99*

 

[drhook94]

Not a hard concept at all. How much money do you save going to the dollar menu instead of grocery shopping? Prolly only about 10 dollars, but obviously to a lot of people that's enough of a difference in their survival.

If it's that serious to make a thread over something that doesn't cost more than 10 dollars at a time (no more than 60 dollars a year), then it's obviously something you can't afford. Nothing wrong with that, but it gets annoying when instead of just admitting that, you try to turn it into a social issue when there isn't anything there to make an issue out of.

I still don't understand why people pay for internet if they can't buy fukking food.

 

[Zero]

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.

You know they are

"See this without an optometrist
I'm stuck in the middle of this bytch like ya momma's gynacologist
Make a radio hit - heads criticize it;
Underground classic - nobody buys it:
So, rap is fukked and everything blowing up sounds redundant
But money talks and bullshyt does 9 flat in the hundred" - Ras Kass in 1996

 

[Doomsday]

We ain't poor. We just saving for better things.
Like houses.

Yeah that makes sense. 50-100 dollars a year goes a long way towards owning property

I still don't understand why people pay for internet if they can't buy fukking food.

Ask the people that go through it. Even on this very website you have people who enthusiastically campaign against a lot of things (cable, living on your own, ect) but have no problem paying for Internet, hyping and buying 60 dollar games, hyping and buying 500 dollar cell phones, hyping and buying 4 digit computers and equipment-- the list goes on and on. Which is why topics like these annoy me.

 

[Zero]

rap nikkas brag about trying to take my bytch
and what corny watch they got


nikka i aint buying shyt from u

Stop listening to mainstream rappers and you wouldn't have this problem

 

[Rain]

Be broke brehs

 

[Zero]

THEY ARE WHITE.

I don't want to believe it until I see this like this

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.

 

[KravenMorehead™]

Way I see it is this. Cats buy food in restaurants on a regular basis. Even if it's fast food cats'll drop 5 in th emorning and 10-15 on a pizza later on. If you can drop that in a day for food that's gonna go in one hole and out the other and you'll be hungry again, then you can spend 10 fukkin dollars on a good CD that's gonna last you way longer

 

[drhook94]

Way I see it is this. Cats buy food in restaurants on a regular basis. Even if it's fast food cats'll drop 5 in th emorning and 10-15 on a pizza later on. If you can drop that in a day for food that's gonna go in one hole and out the other and you'll be hungry again, then you can spend 10 fukkin dollars on a good CD that's gonna last you way longer

Because music will keep you from dying

 

[Sonic Boom of the South]

Stop listening to mainstream rappers and you wouldn't have this problem

nah i listen to everything

still not paying


there hasnt been an album worth paying for imo


in years

 

[KravenMorehead™]

Because music will keep you from dying

I see the troll smiley so Ima let it ridemessage recieved