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Originally Posted by BeautifulBurnout
b) you are so used now to getting free *cough* music in this format that it has somehow devalued the concept for you?
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if i was stealing tracks left, right and centre, then that'd be a valid point. but i'm not... that fact that technology has allowed a friend to send an exact replica of what i would have paid for takes this beyond the days of taping an album for a friend. and as i've said, i'm precluded from being able to pay; so i either listen to my copy, or fuck-off and don't listen to new tracks.
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And, all joking apart, the age thing is not as daft as it sounds. I resisted buying a CD player for quite some time as, having witnessed the rise and fall of such things as laserdiscs, I figured it was a new geeky bit of tat that would eventually lose its charm and fade away. I eventually (thankfully) bought in to it. Perhaps the whole idea of MP3s as The Medium now just takes a little getting used to?
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yes; it's a new medium - i'm just questioning whether this is the best way to sell it - especially when, as you point out, it's a medium that has been the domain of piracy from the word "go" my honest thought was that i'm more inclined to not pay for something from uw that i'd hitherto be straight into hmv to get my grubby mitts on. if they're talking about concepts about the shape of the music they sell, i'm talking concepts of how i approach it - and without something sitting at home, i'm more inclined to rely on my copy. that's how the experiment affects me, somebody who's very up for buying uw product.