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Originally Posted by Jim_Gunn
That's always been a preposterous argument made by people to justify their illegally downloaded music collections. Any and every idiot that ever purchased a CD with only one good song on it deserved to get taken. I had a large CD collection at one time with every release by all my favorite bands and I got more than my $11 share of entertainment out of the listening every time. Especially with music, people tend to listen over and over and over to their faves.
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Damn straight. All my albums were by my favorite bands. I listened to ALL of the album and enjoyed them: Zeppelin, Stones, The Who, The Beatles, The Cult, Metallica, Nirvana...it didn't really matter.
If I liked a band I liked their style and was interested in the entire album.
I doubt very seriously that anybody ever bought "Dark Side Of The Moon" for one song.
And last I checked nobody in history was ever "forced" to buy any albums. If you had a favorite song...it comes on the radio constantly. You never had to go out and buy and entire album for that one song. And not only that...but most bands used to release SINGLES as well. Once vinyl was replaced by cassette tape and then CD that became less of an option of course. But as I said before...nobody ever was forced to buy anything.
But MOST people are true fans of the bands they love and WANTED to buy the albums. I have never heard anybody in real life tell me that they wish they hadn't bought an album of a band they liked. Never.