Music With Your Hot Chocolate? – Mass Communications Discussion Topic
I believe that unless we are downloading an entire album, we shouldn’t have to pay for ONE (or the promo) song(s) from that album. If we can hear it on the radio, why can’t we hear it whenever we want? If we hear the song on the radio, it’s not like the radio station had to pay for the song, so why should we? Artists send the station their promos, so why can’t we download the promo songs for free? Well, we can, but not legally, unless the artist allows it. The other songs on the full album usually aren’t that good anyway, but should still be available for purchase if the consumer wants to have them.
Promo songs heard on the radio – should be free to download.
All other songs on the album – should have a cost to download.
And if that doesn’t satisfy the artist, maybe they should just make the entire album worth listening to, or just scrap all the other songs, and then we would just pay for, well, the promos.
I mean, if an artist is only sending out their best songs for us to hear on the radio, then why do they even expect us to buy their entire album? What the heck are they promoting? Sure there’s the fans that are so infatuated with the artist’s music, that they don’t really realize how crappy the other songs are, and will buy the entire album anyway, but that’s not the point here.
The point is…..
Maybe we could even pay for what bit rate (quality of the mp3, or any other format) the downloaded song would have…
This whole thing is really getting out of hand. And there’s always going to be someone that gets burned (no pun intended, well actually, yes, pun intended) in the end.
I’m sure the music industry will survive until I’m no longer alive to say otherwise.
In the meantime, I’m happy with “stealing” the hit songs heard on the radio, purchasing the full album if I love the artist and want to support their music, and being able to download super quality mp3s from XM Radio with my Pioneer Inno (for $15 a month.)
And I do believe that we will continue to be rewarded with download credits by purchasing certain products or services, like how soda bottles sometimes have a download code under the cap. But the songs available are usually crappy because nearly every “breakthrough” artist seems to be in it just for the fame and fortune.
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