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Originally Posted by olivia_nb  The music industry as a whole feels entitled to our money and that's why it's been such a bitter pill to swallow, the non-artists are getting squeezed out of the equation and they by and far dominated the industry in terms of income and pure body count. |
That statement right there is what's completely wrong with so many people. If you WANT TO OWN THEIR PRODUCT, they ARE ENTITLED TO YOUR MONEY. That's FUDAMENTAL to our society, to capitalism, to morality. If you don't want them to have your money, then don't consume their product. If you consume their product and don't play them, then you are wrong, you are immoral, not them.
This seeming belief that if some company doesn't sell their product in a way you want that somehow it's just their problem if people then steal it is just economically ******** and a side effect of the massive rationalization of theft that exists out there. You DON'T HAVE THAT RIGHT, period. There is NO excuse for stealing anyone's product because it's not at the price you think it should be or provided in the way you want. There never has been such a right.
And the belief that those 'non-music' people were just leaches is just flat out wrong. The ONLY time that artists have really made any significant money is under the label system. Without some organization behind arists, they are forever just lost in the noise, because actuall SELLING the music you make takes money and marketing.