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:	post by retzam at 2004-07-11 12:41:17

Well, Spaldino, you do make a good point, but, this final statement: "if the cd is worth buying, i will buy it... if it isnt, then the fact that i downloaded their album is null and void because i wouldnt have bought it anyway." That is kind of false. If the second situation is the case, then the only reason you're not buying the CD is because you heard it already and are not into it. There's still a small chance that if you didn't DL it you would have bought it. Maybe the reviews wouldn't have been so bad to keep you from buying it; maybe you would have heard one or two of those three songs that you liked and ran out and bought it. The fact is, that many many more albums would be sold if it weren't for downloading and burning.

Anyway, here's my standpoint on the matter. I, personally, don't like burned albums. I have in the past burned a lot of albums, but I almost always eventually go and buy them. There are only a few complete burned albums I have that I havn't bought yet:

Dimmu Borgir - Spiritual Black Dimensions
Dimmu Borgir - Death Cult Armeggeddon
Porcupine Tree - Lightbulb Sun
Porcupine Tree - In Absentia
Ensiferum - Ensiferum
Primus - Pork Soda (I havn't even listened to this yet, someone burned it for me a while ago)

I do indeed plan to buy all of these in the future. I just like having the actual thing. I am guilty of burning albums for my friends. But it is usually just to spread some good music around. Plus, sometimes they go out and buy it anyway, like this kid who after borrowing 5 of my Maiden albums to rip them onto his computer, he went out and bought a bunch of Maiden albums (some that he had ripped, others that he hadn't). But I guess the only person that I burn quite a few albums for is the guitarist and vocalist in my band. He is kind of in a shitty situation with no money and no car and no way to get to a job, so he can't really get one. So me and my drummer burn a lot of discs for him because he really needs them (he is the main writer for our band at this time, so if he only has a few albums then the music isn't going to be that unique). So every once in a while the drummer will burn him 5 or 6 albums and just give'em to him and I will burn him one or two others. Well, that's my 2 cents.

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