What is your opinion on downloading music?

[Tony_Siegel]

Are you stealing food off an artists plate? What does this mean to an artist (whether they're successful, struggling, or on the come up)? How would you react to an artist stepping to you looking to shake you down for their discography money?

A necessary evil? Let us build...

 

[Yoda]

man fukk this thread
i download music off of itunes and amazon :burr:

 

[LandryFieldsDad]

Years of being weed plates and the general state of music currently...

I'm Gonna download..

If I like it..I do buy it though..

For example i'm gonna buy that killer mike Tuesday

 

[Yung Fresh]

I dunno I cant really make up my mind about it. Yeah, you still stealing from the artist but if they are on a major label most of their money isnt coming from album sales anyways. I usually buy it if its artists I really like a lot, otherwise its a DL

 

[stealthbomber]

i only buy from artists i support. i cop nas, curren$y, game, wale, lupe etc.

i download from artists i could give a fukk about

 

[B86]

I know that I am "taking money from the artist" but at the same time, even if I didn't download the album, I wouldn't buy it anyway. Sounds kinda fukked up but its the truth. There just isnt enough consistency on albums anymore to make me want to buy a whole album from an artist. Yes there are a few I will buy, but its rare

 

[Fmju]

I've been buying most of my shyt lately off iTunes.

I really only download mixtapes. I hate singles, but I do make exceptions

 

[OnlyInCalifornia]

After years of getting rapped on cd prices by the big corps and so many lackluster releases Im just not taking a chance on anyone that I am not a big fan of. I cop all the artists whos music I like but even then I download it first. For example, I've bought all of Currensy's retail releases but downloaded it the second I get hit with a link.

 

[TEKBEATZ]

man fukk this thread
i download music off of itunes and amazon :burr:

Daps

 

[Why-Fi]

its a god send for out of print shyt

everything else i will buy

 

[STEVE]

most hip-hop doesn't even come out on vinyl so fukk 'em

 

[Dump Gawd]

bought alot of hip hop albums in my life

and it's still the same saying if i like it i'll buy it

 

[SuburbanPimp]

I wit Biz, if I like i buy it.

But I'm past buying CDs sight unseen. I gotta hear it first.

My other problem is these days the Artist free mixtape is better than their CD.

What I look like actually purchasing a subpar CD when I just heard their mixtape a month ago and I know they can do better?

 

[the cac mamba]

if i walk into a cd store and somethin that jus came out says $9.99, im a lot more likely to buy it

its just too fukkin easy to dl music off youtube. youtube killed music as we knew it less than 10 years ago

*kiss* "then the internet kilt the game n it got greezy"