Is downloading music really a BIG problem ?

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Jul 20, 2002
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Who is suffering ? the same artists still seem to go multi-platinum, Eminem, G-Unit, Usher.....William Hung going Gold. Def Jam is cheating with their soundscans and Method Man says they have always cheated on their soundscans with their back office dealings. My label has dropped two albums, one in the Memphis and one in India. In India they bootlegged the fuck out of our cd, we still went ghetto Gold so far with 50,000 sold. It just brought us more attention and reviews in Pakistani magazines and newspapers. The government banned our cd earlier last month which only increased our sales there. The cd we dropped in the Memphis sold a few thousand but we're in it for the long haul, we're going to push it for the rest of the year. Our third crew cd is dropping sometime before the summer and I'm not going to boast like it's going to change the game but we are doing some things that isn't currently done in music and we are keeping the bar up for the New Bay and showing our talent. Our new video will be available for all to see in the coming weeks also. But back to downloading music...........it doesn't bother me at all as long as a motherfucka enjoys my shit. I guess it's because music doesn't put food on my families table because I do work a 9 to 5 too.
 
May 12, 2002
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it's downloading fucking albums thats the bad thing.... Ya know, all that effort (if it was a good album) put into it, it's like slappin em in they face when you d/l the whole thing.

singles should be allowed to be downloaded... if you really support the artist then buy their shit simple as that...

Good points though i feel that.

lol @ ur sig - wtf is that in the pimp kilt? a bonnie block bleeder no doubt.
 

Doxx

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Apr 25, 2002
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Sav_Scorcese said:
My label has dropped two albums, one in the Memphis and one in India. In India they bootlegged the fuck out of our cd, we still went ghetto Gold so far with 50,000 sold.
Can you elaborate on these albums? What's with dropping one in Memphis and then dropping another only in India?

As for the downloading issue, there's an interesting new study just released that shows that sales are not affected by downloading. I just read about it in Rolling Stone. I'll try and post the article in this thread tomorrow.
 
Jul 20, 2002
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One cd TJ Kool - Contraversy was released in India and my group Savage Behavior released our album primarily in my hometown of Memphis, TN with limited outlets having it here in the Bay. FriscoStreetShow has some and also the record store on 3rd Street in the Bayview. We dont have what people would call normal Bay Area sound on our cd's and TJ Kool is an Indian rap artist. We're up for a music award at the Panamerican Awards here in San Francisco in November. We've been nominated for Label of the Year, Album of the year and Artist of the Year.
 
Apr 25, 2002
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Damn I just checked this and doxx and I must have posted at the same exact time so that it looked like I was LOLing at doxx when in reality I was LOLing at mark 7 at the precise moment I reached 80 MPH and 1.21 jiggawatts of power for the flux compacitor.
 
Sep 5, 2003
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As far as downloading music, even albums, not only singles, should be allowed, you see, If I want a album, I download it, I bump to it, and if im feelin it, then I go buy it, some people dont wanna buy shit n just download music, which I think is ok, but I rather listen to it, n then buy it, cuz that way I know if the album I buy is worth paying for or not, also, it aint doin nuttin to nobody, cuz if peeps really like the artist, they'll go buy the actual cd which comes wit the Artwork on the cd n everything, burned cds are just a cd, but for some people they rather buy the real cd and get all of it.
 
Jan 28, 2003
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bla

Ivé downloaded alot of albums but it has never affected my purchasing habbits just expanding my knowledge of the genre way more than what would otherwise be possible.

If downloading is an alternative to buying it shure will hurt the genre bad. But ithink there will always be folks who prefer having a pressed cd whit covers and shit over a cd-r