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01-05-2013, 10:28 AM | #1 |
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Dude from Cracker and Camper Van Beethoven writes response to victimless file-sharing
Apparently this isn't new but i just saw it so it's new to me.
Original NPR post about not paying for music: http://www.npr.org/blogs/allsongs/20...-to-begin-with David Lowery's response: http://thetrichordist.com/2012/06/18...gs-considered/ |
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01-05-2013, 11:47 AM | #2 | |
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01-05-2013, 12:01 PM | #3 |
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P.S. just something to think about.
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01-05-2013, 12:18 PM | #4 |
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i mean he is a bit of a cheap shot artist
blaming vic chesnutt and mark linkous' suicide on downloading is ridiculous |
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01-05-2013, 12:42 PM | #5 |
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He certainly went into it with guns blazing.
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01-05-2013, 01:08 PM | #6 |
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The original post is a little weird. First she mentions some dude who deleted all music from his hard drive and began to use cloud-based services. Then she goes on to say she doesn't get it because she's never owned CDs in the first place. But the guy didn't delete his physical CDs, he deleted his FLACs, or MP3s or AACs, or whatever it was that he had.
As for the response, quite frankly, it's reactionary crap. The guy doesn't want to lose his job (if I were him, I wouldn't want to lose it either), so his "morality" springs from that. The truth is that the "recording artist" is a very recent phenomenon - copyright is also a new invention - but art has existed and flourished for thousands of years. Of course, you may argue that this isn't about art, it's about the artist. I generally agree that it's important to safeguard people's livelihoods, except that here the costs are too high. One of the greatest tragedies of our current model is that it reinforces the myth of individuality, the myth of the romantic genius, who is supposedly a self-made man and deserves riches and fame. I suspect this is why people are a lot less resistant to change in other professional fields; they maybe express regret when a profession is made redundant by new technological advances, but I don't see people advocating regulations to ensure that, say, video store owners (as opposed to legal, online distributors) stay in business. But an artist is apparently special, so we can't let them suffer the indignity of having to find another job. And when it comes to the argument that we'll see a drop in quality, well, they are full of shit. Sure, big productions might be more difficult to finance, but a free culture where we can copy, adapt and modify other people's work has the potential to create awesomely interesting things. Some of the greatest masterpieces in the past were created that way, over generations by many faceless artists. When you give up the idea that someone can "own" an idea, that the author has any special authority over their own creations, you can change them a little bit, improve whatever you don't like, and among the resulting aberrations, you might find something that actually surpasses the "original". You have to be really full of yourself not to see how amazing the possibilities are. |
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01-05-2013, 01:17 PM | #7 | |
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01-05-2013, 05:05 PM | #8 | |
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Thanks. |
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01-05-2013, 06:24 PM | #9 |
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Beowulf
The Iliad The Epic of Gilgamesh Hundreds of songs from different folk traditions |
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01-05-2013, 06:34 PM | #10 | |
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So thus by your logic, our society should revert back to a pre-Industrial feudal state? I mean you are talking about advancing our society, but cite folklore as an example. |
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01-05-2013, 07:45 PM | #11 |
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shut up sonic
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01-05-2013, 08:19 PM | #12 |
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OK ;_;
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01-06-2013, 01:53 AM | #13 |
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doesn't the guy from cracker / cvb have a built in fanbase he tours nationally on all the time?
this is like billy corgan complaining that someone downloaded a zeitgeist bonus track instead of buying the album |
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01-06-2013, 03:21 PM | #14 |
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The main problem with his screed is that he's wrong about spotify, not just on the amount paid(which he is), but what it means for artists- specifically the long term vs short term payment model. In the current(dying) system a band's record is pressed, sold, listened to, resold, then listened to some more. The band is only paid for the initial pressings - it doesn't receive any payment for a resale and it doesn't matter if the album is listened to once or 1000 times, they receive the same amount. This means that a band makes most of the money from their work in a relatively short time span and unless they are one of the lucky few to hit it big and have their albums be re-pressed 15-20yrs later they will never see a dime from that album again. With a pay-per-play style system every time someone listen's to a song that artist gets paid, whether the album came out yesterday or 20 years ago. Of course there are arguments for both systems, but ranting about a small check you'll get 1000 times in your life compared to large checks you might only get 2-3 times doesn't hold much water
whole spotify barely pays artists story is bunk david lowery might be right about some things but hes wrong about streaming money and artists Last edited by Euronomus : 01-06-2013 at 04:18 PM. |
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01-06-2013, 04:15 PM | #15 |
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i don't even see why you have to make money from music nowadays. making music is cheaper than it ever was. just get a normal day job and rehearse/record on the weekends. woops - you're an artist. who needs losers like this guy or billy corgan whining over his millions anyway? this coming from a guy who does not download music btw
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01-06-2013, 04:17 PM | #16 |
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i mean i'm n ot sure this guy has millions
cracker had one sort of hit |
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01-06-2013, 04:19 PM | #17 |
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the millions referred to BC obviously. although he might be poor by now, i don't know. he deserves losing every penny he loses.
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01-06-2013, 04:52 PM | #18 |
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01-06-2013, 05:15 PM | #19 |
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i should mention that the person he's directly responding too is pretty stupid
i mean it's awful to be going on about not buying music at all when i'm defending my downloading its from my perspective of owning hundreds each of cds, lps and tapes, not from owning 15 cds and just NEVER buying anything |
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01-06-2013, 07:02 PM | #20 |
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This guy deals in absolutes and it's absolutely mindblowingly annoying.
Do I download illegally? Hell yeah. But, for example, I downloaded a leaked copy of R.E.M.'s Collapse Into Now. Complete trash, not worth money. Did I delete it off iTunes? No. Did I purchase it? No. Just because they spent money to make something doesn't make it worth my money. New scenario. Deftones Koi No Yokan. Did I illegally download it? Hell yes, when it leaked. Did I purchase it? Yes, the CD and the vinyl. Because it was worth the money. I mean, for example, if I buy a shitty pair of headphones, I can return them and get full money back. But if I buy a CD and open it, or a record, I'm stuck with it, even though the CD/vinyl may suck ass. |
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01-06-2013, 08:35 PM | #21 |
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just something to think about
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01-07-2013, 03:34 AM | #22 |
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the party king
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01-07-2013, 04:08 AM | #23 |
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