Buy OWB and you support the major labels (?)

[gaborez]

i will always buy music i love by a band i love, whatever label it's released on and whatever the format. any fan who wouldn't buy music from a band cos of the label they're on is missing something upstairs. i'm in it for the music and no label can change that. if labels choose to sue thieving students then so what? i dont care. all labels (including indie ones) and bands will suffer from people mass-stealing their music.

dont take this post as me saying i'm pro-major labels or anything. i love the homegrown/organic nature of indie labels and bands like underworld and do my best to support them. but foremost i love good music however it's distributed, as long as i'm not stealing from the artist

[patrick]

I think the main thing is that it seems that the major-labels are not acting in most artists interests anymore, and are not satisfying a growing demand at all... Why support this business model? This is how capitalism is supposed to work, so if you believe something is not right, then you put your money where your mouth is (so away from the bad major-labels)...

I think it's the opposite to missing something upstairs personally... Critically thinking, and making tough decisions for something you believe in is important. Regarding them sueing people: there is something wrong when something is illegal that a huge percentage of people do in society.

[jose m]

freedom for tooting and all that ! i'm not on a campaign to defeat all evil in the world but if i was i wouldn't start by not buying a cd.

[BeautifulBurnout]

Originally Posted by jose m

freedom for tooting and all that ! i'm not on a campaign to defeat all evil in the world but if i was i wouldn't start by not buying a cd.

Agreed.

Not taking the moral high ground, either, but the fact is, despite all the whining they do, boycotting a record label isn't going to put them out of business. As I said earlier, all they will do is take the A & R money that would have gone into discovering quirky new talent and use it to plug the holes in the rest of it meaning more and more dross. I am not saying "omg you should never download", but I am saying that it is probably misguided to think that you not buying their product is going to mean jack shit to them in the long term.