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Johnny C:
i mean yeah ok it's free but like SO MANY BANDS are asking for like a pittance per copy sold. you can't seriously just cruise on over to the touch & go site and slam down ten bucks via paypal for an out of print record or something? come on. the dudes from the standard aren't ever going to be able to quit their day job any more, this is the least they deserve.

the_pied_piper:

--- Quote from: Johnny C on 19 Sep 2010, 10:41 ---can you dudes SERIOUSLY not afford ten bucks to drop on a record at a show

--- End quote ---

Right now, honestly, No.

I mean, when I have spare cash the majority of it goes on buying records that I enjoy whether in print or out but I see the free downloads as a chance to hear the music first and if I don't enjoy it then I'll get rid of it but it saves me paying the cost of an album that I didn't like in the first place.

flamingo:
Id prefer to just donate and then download anything, that way I dont have to linger forever whether or not this album is worth buying- which can suck cuz sometimes thats the only way for me to give it a listen and if I dont like it, I regret buying and dont want to buy more.
Also, I'd buy certain CDs if they sold them, for the material aspect of it.
Seeing as I dont have paypal, I'd love it if I could pay by mailing them money.

Also, the same kinds of bands play free shows and ask for donations, I would donate more at a show than I'd pay to get in.

Theres also merch.

Johnny C:
totally goofy attitude. like don't you place any value on the music at all?

if you are broke, that is totally shitty and i can get that. but if you have something resembling an entertainment income, why wouldn't you pay to get into a show? especially because shows – at least the majority of shows that i go to and that i play – are like five bucks, MAYBE eight bucks.

sure okay yeah records are a gamble but like somehow the culture fucking thrived back when it was word-of-mouth and when you had to actually take a goddamn risk. it made you more likely to plunge into a record and be willing to spend the time it takes to get all of its nuance. and that's not really an argument for free shit, it's an argument for having people you can talk to and learn about music with.

bands playing free shows isn't an attitude thing on the bands' part, it's a concerted and in a lot of ways brutal reaction to how totally shitty our culture is w/r/t actually even paying lip service to appreciating created stuff. they're great in theory for the audience but that's ultimately because the audience is cheap and lazy. what i'm getting at is i guess do we want to really be cheap and lazy?

Johnny C:
like i want to emphasize not as a dude in a band but as a dude who likes it when cool bands actually tour to where he lives that this is an absolutely atrocious climate in which to be in a band, maybe one of the worst climates in history. it's so easy to make music but it's borderline impossible to actually do anything with it. and that fucks me up as a dude who likes music because how am i supposed to hear about all the cool shit that's in the world? and how am i supposed to share cool shit with people if i never get exposed to it firsthand?

like - do you really want all of the music you ever listen to to be something someone else told you to listen to? where's the sense in that?

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