09-28-2008, 02:45 AM
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Join Date: Feb 2002
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Buying music directly from the artists of through small independent labels (such as copperspine - shameless plug for my wife's label) gets you what you paid for; a CD you can rip, or non-DRM protected high quality downloaded files you are free to backup. Buying from MegaCorp (Wal*Mart, iTunes, whoever) is just shooting yourself in the foot financially. Sooner or later they're not going to support your purchase, it's just a matter of time. And of course the cut the artist gets per CD or song sold is trivial compared to the percentage usually got with small labels of direct sales by the bands.
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Gerard Ivan Samija
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