Comments on: Weird business moves in the music world http://www.acousticedinburgh.com/2006/11/weird-business-moves-in-the-music-world/ Wed, 30 Mar 2011 11:00:06 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: paul http://www.acousticedinburgh.com/2006/11/weird-business-moves-in-the-music-world/comment-page-1/#comment-7 paul Mon, 13 Nov 2006 11:38:51 +0000 http://www.acousticedinburgh.com/aeblog/?p=14#comment-7 Bizarre. M$ must be getting something in return - perhaps they're intending other labels to come and join the party so eventually they'll have some online music supermarket monopoly by guaranteeing revenue to all who join. I'll still be buying CDs and ripping them to my non-DRM player. There's no way I'm paying more than once for the right to listen to a track. Also, I've always believed that "home taping is promoting music" - I've bought so many CDs and concert tickets because of illegal copies of music I've been given. Bottom line is that the best way to support independant musicians is to buy their CDs/MP3s direct from the artists website or at a gig. I noticed the excellent <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.teamsalt.co.uk" rel="nofollow">Team Salt</a> are burning CDs for sale at the end of gigs from their laptop. I wonder how long before most bands/artists bring laptops to gigs and do copies direct to fans MP3 players for a couple of quid. You heard it here first! Bizarre. M$ must be getting something in return – perhaps they’re intending other labels to come and join the party so eventually they’ll have some online music supermarket monopoly by guaranteeing revenue to all who join.

I’ll still be buying CDs and ripping them to my non-DRM player. There’s no way I’m paying more than once for the right to listen to a track.
Also, I’ve always believed that “home taping is promoting music” – I’ve bought so many CDs and concert tickets because of illegal copies of music I’ve been given.

Bottom line is that the best way to support independant musicians is to buy their CDs/MP3s direct from the artists website or at a gig.

I noticed the excellent Team Salt are burning CDs for sale at the end of gigs from their laptop. I wonder how long before most bands/artists bring laptops to gigs and do copies direct to fans MP3 players for a couple of quid. You heard it here first!

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