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Hip-hop lost it's edge, it's too safe now.
^ bullshit. Name 1 artist who went 'independent' and then got BETTER or doper on the mic. Now, go ahead and name the 10 in your head that you can think of that turned to SHIT as soon as they got an independent deal because they didn't have to answer to anybody and could release whatever wack ass shit they wanted to.
Quote from: Bow Down To The King Of Kings on July 10, 2006, 02:01:28 PMQuote from: Overseer on July 10, 2006, 01:48:51 PMi'm waiting for a special edition of the busta.. great album.. but i always get stiffed buying shit i like when it comes out.. for a special edition to then come and be there for "johnny come lately" fans...IMO busta's is a great albumdownloading etc is a poor excuse.. quality isnt always there.. and this is the poorest time of year for retail... but yet you haven't bought busta's great album. NOT a poor excuse, a dead-on excuse. Downloading has probably halfed hiphop record sales. JUST MY OPINION, I could be wrong although it's never... EVER happened before. Downloading can be a good thing...i rather hear the whole shit before buying...ya know what i'm saying?
Quote from: Overseer on July 10, 2006, 01:48:51 PMi'm waiting for a special edition of the busta.. great album.. but i always get stiffed buying shit i like when it comes out.. for a special edition to then come and be there for "johnny come lately" fans...IMO busta's is a great albumdownloading etc is a poor excuse.. quality isnt always there.. and this is the poorest time of year for retail... but yet you haven't bought busta's great album. NOT a poor excuse, a dead-on excuse. Downloading has probably halfed hiphop record sales. JUST MY OPINION, I could be wrong although it's never... EVER happened before.
i'm waiting for a special edition of the busta.. great album.. but i always get stiffed buying shit i like when it comes out.. for a special edition to then come and be there for "johnny come lately" fans...IMO busta's is a great albumdownloading etc is a poor excuse.. quality isnt always there.. and this is the poorest time of year for retail
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^Dubbing was free too, and so was recording off the radio. Why don't you go back and find some articles on the audio cassette and it's recorder and see how scared the industry was about that detroying sales of music. The result was millions of people dubbing albums from friends and and recording hit singles right off the radio. It also during the time of the largest sales boom in the history of music because the prices were low, the income was high and the disposable cash was ready to be wasted.Like I said, if the prices todat dropped and the economy turned around hte sales would rise. Of course there will be people that won't buy and just download just like there were people that didn't buy and just recorded, but there will also be people that buy after downloading due to quality of music and exposure to it, like what happened with Radiohead.
Quote from: Shallow on July 14, 2006, 06:50:52 AM^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^Dubbing was free too, and so was recording off the radio. Why don't you go back and find some articles on the audio cassette and it's recorder and see how scared the industry was about that detroying sales of music. The result was millions of people dubbing albums from friends and and recording hit singles right off the radio. It also during the time of the largest sales boom in the history of music because the prices were low, the income was high and the disposable cash was ready to be wasted.Like I said, if the prices todat dropped and the economy turned around hte sales would rise. Of course there will be people that won't buy and just download just like there were people that didn't buy and just recorded, but there will also be people that buy after downloading due to quality of music and exposure to it, like what happened with Radiohead.I used to dub stuff off the radio all the time back in the day, first of all, it's a tape not a cd, and second of all, it's usually just a single. I also borrowed from friends, and dubbed whole albums, but the big difference there was nobody heard the album until it was released, now there is no such thing as big release date events anymore because everybody has the album weeks and months before it's released.
To get a free cd before it's released... you have to click a fucking button. CLICK A FUCKING BUTTON. CLICK. A. Fucking. BUTTON. It couldn't BE EASIER! The only way it could be easier, is if the record company let you pick it up for free at the store, and that wouldn't even be easier because you'd have to drive there, then open that shitty plastic wrap they put on it. If I want to hear the new Busta cd, all I have to do is click the left button on my mouse. CLICK THE LEFT BUTTON ON MY MOUSE.I have thorougly consumed your little petty argument. Bow down to a power greater than you.
I used to dub stuff off the radio all the time back in the day, first of all, it's a tape not a cd, and second of all, it's usually just a single. I also borrowed from friends, and dubbed whole albums, but the big difference there was nobody heard the album until it was released, now there is no such thing as big release date events anymore because everybody has the album weeks and months before it's released.
You're an idiot. To copy an album before, you had to have special equipment, you had to borrow somebody's copy, the tape wasn't long enough to copy the whole album, the sound was degraded with each generation, etc., etc. Surely you know this. Surely you realized before you even came at me with your BULLSHIT argument that I would tear it into a million fucking pieces. why would you even step to me with such weak, pathetic drivel knowing damn good and well I would destroy everything that came out of your cunt mouth?To get a free cd before it's released... you have to click a fucking button. CLICK A FUCKING BUTTON. CLICK. A. Fucking. BUTTON. It couldn't BE EASIER! The only way it could be easier, is if the record company let you pick it up for free at the store, and that wouldn't even be easier because you'd have to drive there, then open that shitty plastic wrap they put on it. If I want to hear the new Busta cd, all I have to do is click the left button on my mouse. CLICK THE LEFT BUTTON ON MY MOUSE.I have thorougly consumed your little petty argument. Bow down to a power greater than you.
Someone explain to me why downloading helps sales. It doesn't in any way. It only hurts sales, downloading also hurts television ratings, radio ratings, DVD sales, movies sales, it hurts almost all media. If you can dl it for free, why buy it or even watch on TV. And bullshit you download an album, realize its good, then buy it. How does that help anything. You download 100 albums a year and buy maybe 5 of them, as apposed to buying 100 albums. Music is getting worse and worse, movies are getting worse and worse, television is getting worse and worse, and people downloading it all for free is partially to blame.
Quote from: Shallow on July 10, 2006, 04:40:43 PMBlaming downloading is bullshit in my opinion. Downloading only helps if the music is good, and if the music sucks people either delete or never listen to the albums anyway. ... but yet Overseer starts it off by saying Bustas album is great (so he obviously listens to it frequently) but he hasn't bought it.... why? ... because he downloaded it. So, blaming downloading is bullshit. riiiiight.
Blaming downloading is bullshit in my opinion. Downloading only helps if the music is good, and if the music sucks people either delete or never listen to the albums anyway.