my problem with beatport is that the preview quality is atrocious.
you can't tell if the production of the actual recording is any
good and that deters me from buying any digital downloads. i think
this is especially shortsighted when you consider that in the idiom
of electronic dance music the production IS the music.
i'm really hooked on bleep.com. the preview system they have there
is perfect. you see the entire track as a waveform and can shuttle
instantly anywhere in the track, with really decent preview audio
quality that plays for about 20 seconds before fading to silence.
it's also a beautiful website done by the geniuses at kleber.net.
g.
Anyway I buy the releases I like, in part because I do want to
support
artists. But note that beyond that, a digital download from beatport
is normally of higher quality, especially since I usually buy WAV
rather than mp3 for instance. So all ethics aside, there is, in fact,
good incentive for a discriminating consumer to buy legal digital
copies of files.
~David
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