i aint paying so no music, fagg0t

[Ryan 12]

every single song i ever had on my iphone i downloaded illegally from youtube


roflzzz @ niggas thinking ima support jayz and buy his album



that .99c u giving itunes going straight to his toilet paper


btw can u imagine how rich they wud be if illegal downloading didnt exist


wake up fagg0ts

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YOU ARE A PIECE OF SHIT

[DLB]

most of these artists dont deserve their album bought by me

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if you listen to their music you should purchase it

there is enough free music out there to not be a faggot

Lol fuck off uh oh, like talib kwali says "why, so they can wake up in a new bugatti?"

Utorrent>giving jay z his 90th million

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Originally Posted by King Masa II

Lol fuck off uh oh, like talib kwali says "why, so they can wake up in a new bugatti?"

Utorrent>giving jay z his 90th million

meanwhile your listening to a talib kweli song you acquired illegally

so not only are you not helping someone buy a new bugatti, but you aren't even helping the dude you do like prosper

but they can just make it up by performing right?

what about the dude who did the beats?

niggas wonder why the music suffers. its cuz there is no money in it. you think leonardo davinci wouldve done all the dope shit he did if he wasnt making a helluva living off of it?

support the artistry you faggot fucks

Originally Posted by uh-oh

meanwhile your listening to a talib kweli song you acquired illegally

so not only are you not helping someone buy a new bugatti, but you aren't even helping the dude you do like prosper

but they can just make it up by performing right?

what about the dude who did the beats?

niggas wonder why the music suffers. its cuz there is no money in it. you think leonardo davinci wouldve done all the dope shit he did if he wasnt making a helluva living off of it?

support the artistry you faggot fucks

Cry me a fucking river. Omg im so poor no one will buy my music, meanwhile i dont want to get a real job like the rest of humanity because I want to just rap about my life yaknow?

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Originally Posted by King Masa II

Cry me a fucking river. Omg im so poor no one will buy my music, meanwhile i dont want to get a real job like the rest of humanity because I want to just rap about my life yaknow?

and you want to listen to them rap about their life

lame ass nigga

[DLB]

Originally Posted by uh-oh

if you listen to their music you should purchase it

there is enough free music out there to not be a faggot

so cause i listened to the 2 chainz album for like a week then it had no replay value, i have to buy it?

nah, fuck that. majority of these artists try doing that shit with no good songs but a cpl singles. fuck outta here

[Fig]

I wonder how much of that album money actually goes to the artist

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and you dudes are focused on major artists for some reason

im not arguing for jay z. he's smart enough to sell his music to a company who gives it out for free.

im arguing for the nobodies who are dope as fuck

its just a shame that in 2013 you can't make money just making music. you gotta make the music, than you gotta perform it physically across the globe to make any type of money to live off of

and thats just the recording artist/performer

not the engineer, not the producer, not the beatmaker etc

studio's go under. but who cares right? just get pro tools and a shitty computer

and then complain about how hip hop sucks

[DLB]

Originally Posted by uh-oh

and you dudes are focused on major artists for some reason

im not arguing for jay z. he's smart enough to sell his music to a company who gives it out for free.

im arguing for the nobodies who are dope as fuck

its just a shame that in 2013 you can't make money just making music. you gotta make the music, than you gotta perform it physically across the globe to make any type of money to live off of

and thats just the recording artist/performer

not the engineer, not the producer, not the beatmaker etc

studio's go under. but who cares right? just get pro tools and a shitty computer

and then complain about how hip hop sucks

yo real talk

niggas like Bronson just be releasing "free albums"/mixtapes tbh if he dropped a true ALBUM w/ that feel then i'd maybe buy it but fuck the industry as a whole cause corps make all that and i dont support them. i can spread names through word of mouth since all my friends hmu for new artists and music but the music industry is trash

[Witty]

Originally Posted by Q

yo real talk

niggas like Bronson just be releasing "free albums"/mixtapes tbh if he dropped a true ALBUM w/ that feel then i'd maybe buy it but fuck the industry as a whole cause corps make all that and i dont support them. i can spread names through word of mouth since all my friends hmu for new artists and music but the music industry is trash

What makes you think you have the right to listen to the music they produce without paying?

Why don't the rules apply to you?

We buy things if we want them...that's how society works.

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Originally Posted by Q

yo real talk

niggas like Bronson just be releasing "free albums"/mixtapes tbh if he dropped a true ALBUM w/ that feel then i'd maybe buy it but fuck the industry as a whole cause corps make all that and i dont support them. i can spread names through word of mouth since all my friends hmu for new artists and music but the music industry is trash

he's working on a studio album with his label noisey under vice

he's giving all this music away for free to promote himself, when he drops the album, you are supposed to buy it off the strength of his previous works

not download it illegally, form an opinion and then maybe buy it if you really really love it

im just gonna steal this car from the dealership. if i deem it dope enough i'll go back and pay for it.

fair is fair.

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Originally Posted by uh-oh

and you dudes are focused on major artists for some reason

im not arguing for jay z. he's smart enough to sell his music to a company who gives it out for free.

im arguing for the nobodies who are dope as fuck

its just a shame that in 2013 you can't make money just making music. you gotta make the music, than you gotta perform it physically across the globe to make any type of money to live off of

and thats just the recording artist/performer

not the engineer, not the producer, not the beatmaker etc

studio's go under. but who cares right? just get pro tools and a shitty computer

and then complain about how hip hop sucks

Agree about the nonmajor artists bit

I buy albums from people who I want to make it

I donated the second lowest amount to Elzhi's album kickstarter

I buy dope peoples stuff of band camp

But if I'm getting music because people want it on my iPod/ recommend it or something I'm just gonna torrent it.

[DLB]

they get probably the least amount out of all the ppl involved

corporate makes majority of the money off album sales

[Witty]

Would you people steal from a store?

The people who own the store won't miss the money...so why not?

It's the same thing.

[Frank Metts]

I live buy This

If I like an artist I buy his shit

If I'm on the fence I might download free then buy unless I have some extra throwaway cake then I might say fuck it and just buy the shit

If I'm ehhh I'll def dl skim a few tracks and if I like it I buy it if not I just delete the torrent and I'm done with it

But with itunes you can buy a single song for 1.29 some albums 7.99

Y'all don't realize that you buying a physical cd doesn't really matter anymore, the record stores technically buy the cd then you buy it from them the artist gets paid either way the soundscan is just a pissing contest in all reality and if Em sells 10 mill of an album record stores are more likely to order well over 3 mill all together of his next albums etc etc .. Less and less record stores means more and more digital/illegal dl's

But if Kanye sells 2 million digital CDs of yeezus he's making probably as much as selling six million physical CDs because your cutting out costs of jewel cases, booklets, cover art, CDs etc so the illegal shit probably isn't hurting them near as bad

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but yo itunes has snippets. amazon has snippets. back when there was cd stores you could sample the music before listening

at a car dealership you can test drive shit.

but nah you want to park it in your garage tho. bump it until your tired of it and then not pay for it cuz there isnt enough replay value

when you buy something you like it more

when i make beats, if i download some old record, i look and see if its dope like word word. maybe find something to sample. maybe make something.

but if i buy an old record, i want to make that shit work. im less likely to give up on it. i give it a much more in depth listen.

[Fig]

My friend was telling me about this cheap ass 3D printer that this guy made and got nearly a million dollars on kickstarter for. If successful, it would be retailed at 100 dollars

100 fucking dollars

MEANING, in theory, you could illegally download actual physical items lol