Re: [microsound] try before you buy

["jan.l" <jl@xxxxxxx>]

but did you steal those mp3:s or had the artists decided to make them available for download as promotion?

there is a world of difference.

and it really is the main question: who should decide what can be downloaded for free? the artists or a bunch of college kids or your mother or ... ?

(and no disrespect to anyones mother intended ;=))

>> I've bought music I wouldn't have bought if I hadn't been
>> able to hear it first, so file-sharing may also contribute to an
>> *increase* in CD sales for independent artists.
>I've purchased *many* CD's due to being able to download mp3's and listen to
>a CD first...
>
>in the past month I've purchased the following CD because of filesharing:
>
>The Mercury Project (mp3 DL'd from Epitonic last month)
>Don Caballero 2nd CD (DL'd mp3 from Epitonic)
>    [note: check out www.epitonic.com - they have a great math rock
>collection of mp3's]
>Webern String Quartets (mp3 via Limewire)
>and approx 10 French Troubador/Medieval music CDs I have on hold (also
>Limewire)
>
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