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Originally posted by Gnarf:
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You are kidding yourself if you think you're a fan of a band and stealing their work.
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I beg you to differ. I'd say I'm a fan of Deftones. I've bought all their albums and their DVD, seen'em live once (the only concert they've done in my country, with no age-limit). I've also downloaded music videos for some of the songs and some live stuff. Therefore, you don't think of me as a fan? Would I've been any more of a fan if I've never seen some of their videos?[/QUOTE]Would you call the guy that killed John Lennon a fan? Plenty do because he called himself a Lennon fan. Yet he killed the guy! So much a fanatic of Lennons he stopped the world from hearing any more music from him.
And that is exactly what would happen if every Deftones "fan" stole the songs they liked and didn't purchase the album. The Deftones would no longer be able to share their music with the world.
Grojl, I appreciate your post. Thanks for the time on it. However, the fact remains that if you want to reach a large market, a large audience, TV, movies and radio remain the number 1 way to sell your product. 1 spot on a late night TV show sells far more copies than internet sharing. Individual sites just don't get the numbers a TV show does. Secondly, once someone has the song, they've less incentive to buy it.
Regarding the whole album vs single songs bit, on reflection, the attitude presented here amazes me to say the least.
I presented the analogy of someone splicing up the scenes they like from a film, yet this was challenged? It comes down to the artists INTENT. Artists and producers DO make full albums designed as full albums. Certain songs are left OFF albums because they do not fit in to the album. Balance of songs.....
forget it. I could go on but who gives a toss. I make albums. I produce others albums. Every single artist I've done an album for, without fail cares about the full work. The songs fit into the whole. They are pieces of a puzzle sometimes. In 10 years I've been involved in 32 albums in varying capacities. It's what I do. If you guys want to ignore that and persist in a "albums don't matter they're just collections of songs" it's your loss. You're the one(s) not appreciating the full work as intended.
I's like viewing a series of paintings in a different order to the artists intent, reading a trilogy in the wrong order or ignoring books altogether. Like selectivly watching parts of a film, or whatever.
Ignoring the creators intent.
If you want to do that c'est la vie.
Bye.
[ 04-17-2003, 01:19 AM: Message edited by: Yorick ]