Ironicly. The music industry has made more money from me after I found allofmp3.com than before. Why? Because they must have had their USA credit card licenses stopped, cause I can't pay for more music. So I've been forced to buy new CDs by the bands I found on their in stores.
More than half the number of CDs I bought my entire life before allofmp3 because all the music sucked.
The Mars Volta, Tiamat, and Apocalyptica alone account for 15 CDs I've bought. I would have bought more, but they are VERY hard to find. Well.. not The Mars Volta, but the other 2 are.
If they sold music I wanted, and gave me a reasonable way to preview them. I would buy even more.
I never would have known of those 3 bands if it weren't for allofmp3. Unlike other 'services' they offered me ways to find new bands. (See.. I have particular tastes, and I don't tend to like a lot of bands that sound 'like' other bands... I don't get how people measure that.)
For example. I LOVE Iron Maiden, Iced Earth, and Blind Guardian. But can't stand 99% of all the other bands that sound 'Like' them. Cause they don't sound like them. They sound like crap, with obvious riffs and no musical sense. They just sing about fantasy, or have 'epic' guitars and other senseless chunder.
Radio has been dead to me... ok.. It was never alive for me.
And even Pandora can't figger out what I like. I ultimately end up with stations that JUST play one band. Or that play all kinds of random junk that bores me.
I'm not on the music industry radar. My tastes are too divergent, so I don't feel bad 'stealing' from them. Cause the alternative would be to do without.
They might disagree with me, but all these pirate things have gotten them far more of my money than they ever got from me on their own.
They are welcome to come after me. It is their loss.
More than half the number of CDs I bought my entire life before allofmp3 because all the music sucked.
The Mars Volta, Tiamat, and Apocalyptica alone account for 15 CDs I've bought. I would have bought more, but they are VERY hard to find. Well.. not The Mars Volta, but the other 2 are.
If they sold music I wanted, and gave me a reasonable way to preview them. I would buy even more.
I never would have known of those 3 bands if it weren't for allofmp3. Unlike other 'services' they offered me ways to find new bands. (See.. I have particular tastes, and I don't tend to like a lot of bands that sound 'like' other bands... I don't get how people measure that.)
For example. I LOVE Iron Maiden, Iced Earth, and Blind Guardian. But can't stand 99% of all the other bands that sound 'Like' them. Cause they don't sound like them. They sound like crap, with obvious riffs and no musical sense. They just sing about fantasy, or have 'epic' guitars and other senseless chunder.
Radio has been dead to me... ok.. It was never alive for me.
And even Pandora can't figger out what I like. I ultimately end up with stations that JUST play one band. Or that play all kinds of random junk that bores me.
I'm not on the music industry radar. My tastes are too divergent, so I don't feel bad 'stealing' from them. Cause the alternative would be to do without.
They might disagree with me, but all these pirate things have gotten them far more of my money than they ever got from me on their own.
They are welcome to come after me. It is their loss.