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Originally Posted by BrotherLovesDub
Basically, Underworld gave us exactly what we wanted but lots of people felt like bitching about it anyway.
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I wanted to buy some music for a reasonable price. I don't have £30 to spend on an album at the moment. There's a massive economic crisis in the world and some of us are out of work. By the time I'll have that sort of money there'll be no chance of getting one other than for a ridiculous price on eBay. That's not what
I wanted. Congratulations to you and other people for having £35+ at zero notice to have an album shipped to you, not everyone has that. That the availability of music relies on having that sort of financial situation is pretty disgusting.
It's their art, they can do what they want with it, definitely, but that doesn't make them immune to criticism, especially when the availability of their 'art' boils down to favouring those with more money. It's exploitative, it's elitist and it's really quite depressing.
edit: also, I find it kind of hilarious that in the day of independent labels selling records for a fiver and high street retailers and Amazon selling a reasonable proportion of their products for less than a tenner, Underworld are "clearing through some leftover stock" at £30 a pop and people are genuinely calling it artistic reasoning. These discs did not cost more than 50p to make each, and unless each catalogue cost them £20, they're raking in the profit.