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I'm the same... a prime example of this is when I'm reading a new magazine -- article/review, etc... Unlike visiting a record shop website, P2P systems like Audiogalaxy allow'd me the user the recording in it's entirety -- instead of the 30 second real audio clips i'd become accustomed to in the past... Just this morning, after reading an article in Wax Poetics I was dying to hear some of the music I'd just read about... A couple of days ago this would've been entirely possible.... ag was kind of an audio guide which complemented the text... in some cases i'd be listening to the music I was reading about that very moment... how cool is that?!
To a music lover, AG was a utopia of discovery..... In the end, instead of playing the gamble and guess, you have people buying music they know is good...
The thing that really bothers me is (and i'm guessing here) I'd bet a good majority of the music being swaped via p2p was that of musicians in full support of the medium -- and most likely used it themselves as a "global music library" .. Maybe I'm wrong -- but I kinda see it as the big labels and musicians ruining it for everyone else....
And this whole issue w/ record sales being low; i'm still really having a hard time buying that. I'm mean, come on... Next to me lies a rather large stack of newly purchased lps (and more on the way) -- music I'd heard and discovered via soulseek and audiogalaxy... I wouldn't doubt there 'are' people out there who do just the opposite -- but I'd say for the most part, a good majority of the people can and do differentiate between right and wrong...
am I wrong?
>I like the P2P systems, especially when researching or
trying out a track, I treat it as a global music library where I can borrow tracks for a while and if I enjoy them then I go and buy the whole package (cd/vinyl with artwork and trailer notes/pics etc) to add to my collection..
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