On 10/19/05, Alan Evil (lists) <zmailinglists@psychicreform.com> wrote:

We're all thieves in the eyes of the record industry.  We should be paying
royalties to them each and every time we HEAR any part of a recording.  As a
matter of a fact, they would charge us royalties for singing in the
goddamned shower if they could!  "You were singing the chorus from 'Dancing
Queen' while washing your gonads last week.  That will be $.99, please."
They would charge you directly every time you turn on the radio (you're
stealing because you didn't PAY!!!) or hear a song in the grocery store if
they could.

After B&T I'm not even going to bother to "illegally download" anything new
from the "Orb" until I hear directly from the mouths of you guys that
whatever it is is worth spending money on.  There is so much out there by
other, smaller artists that is so far superior to B&T that if I'm going to
give a percent to an artist, I'd rather it be them.  I'll buy a new Amon
Tobin (or any NinjaTune artist for that matter) because I'm pretty sure I'll
like most if not all of it, but I'm not even going to waste my bandwidth on
downloading a new "Orb" album unless it gets rave reviews.  Why be
dissappointed?  I know I will be.  If I do download a new "Orb" album and
like it (hey, I liked everything up through Cydonia so I'm really not all
that picky) then I'll go buy it.  If I don't like it I'll delete it after a
few goes.

I guess in the case of a new "Orb" release the industry really doesn't want
us to download it for free since it's going to suck and we won't buy it.
Good albums that are downloaded sell more copies than normal.  But the
Industry doesn't want to be bothered with quality, they just want quantity.

I'm going to use quotes around the name "Orb" until they put out something
good.  Until then I consider them to be imposters.

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