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Originally Posted by patrick
how often are you super excited about an albumn that you got a few months before it goes out and forget to buy it by the time it comes out?
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i agree. i don't think it's the fact that it got leaked which makes him angry (he's in the label business for a while now, he knows what's going on), but rather the fact that it got leaked
3 months in advance. sure, you can blame them for handing out promos too early (or releasing too late), but i suppose that there are less people buying the album in april, simply because until then they've heard a lot more music, and probably end up buying 'newer' stuff then.
one example: maybe you play the album to death in the next 3 months, so when it's the official release date you think "hmmm, now i don't need it anymore". on the opposite, when you download the album, let's say, two or three weeks in advance, you might end up buying it because you're still excited about it.
another example: especially in the electronic/techno scene, the lastingness of albums and tracks is fairly moderate. although this album is not designed purely for clubs, but also for home listening, it contains a couple of tracks that might be played in sets. and they will be mostly played now, and not in 3 months, because DJs are bastards who always want to play the newest shit....