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Do you buy music?
KvP:
Personally, wearing a band's t-shirt is the result of my having paid for the shirt, as getting merch at a show is the most direct way I know of supporting the artists I like. I wear them because I have them. It has nothing to do with being defined as a member of a subgroup. I want nothing to do with some of the fanbases that you say are associated with my shirts.
Hell, I'm wearing a Ray Davies shirt right now. I couldn't care less about his solo work (though I do like the Kinks) but my dad brought me along to his show a few years ago and got me this apparel. I'm not the sort of person to meticulously choose anything I wear. I suppose that's worse than the opposite.
As far as the original question posed goes, when I started going to school full-time and left my job was probably the last time I bought music with my own money, and that was... a year and a half ago. So I'm part of the problem. But I'm getting a new job and itunes has lifted its bitrate and DRM restrictions, so I'll probably start buying again soon.
Tom:
--- Quote from: zerodrone on 29 Dec 2007, 15:49 ---I see it as tacky because it's branding. I highly doubt that wearing a band's t-shirt has any effect other than alllowing other people to recognise you as part of a certain subgroup. Just wearing a shirt that says BAND is not "endorsing" them. It's not like people are going to pass by you on the street, see your shirt and think "Wow, I should buy that album!"
If the band t-shirt is artistically pleasing, that's cool. But, at least everywhere I've been, there is a certain very prevalent kind of person who meticulously chooses which BAND t-shirt to wear for maximum Style Points, especially when going to a show. Speaking for myself and most people I know, it's better to dissociate oneself from that demographic.
And that is not even getting into "ironic" t-shirt wearing.
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What about patches and armbands?
Jackie Blue:
The only people around here who wear patches are 14-18 year old "punk" kids who cover their jean jackets and pants in Crass and Dead Kennedys patches.
They're funny.
(NB: Some of them are my friends, admittedly.)
GenericName:
--- Quote from: Kid van Pervert on 29 Dec 2007, 16:03 ---itunes has lifted its bitrate and DRM restrictions
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Why have I not heard about this? It seems like a happy thing that I should have been alerted to the moment it happened.
EDIT: Apparently I checked and it's just for some EMI stuff? Darn.
Jackie Blue:
--- Quote from: Anyways on 29 Dec 2007, 16:36 ---Wait, hang on. Since when was the desire to meet people who likes the same music as yourself become tacky? And what's bad about identifying yourself with a particular demography? Meeting people with common interests is a bad thing?
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I've never "met" anyone just because of a t-shirt. I've never had someone walk up to me and say "You like that band? I like that band! Let's be pals!" Nor have I ever done that to another person.
In my experience, liking the same music as someone else is hideously low on the priority list wrt judging how well I'll get along with them. Most of my best friends have atrocious or mediocre taste in music, and many people I know with awesome taste in music are not very cool at all.
I mean, there are only so many conversations you can have that go "This band is awesome." "Totally." "I like this song." "Yeah, this song is good."
Maybe I'm weird, but I prefer talking about more substantial things.
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