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Bolshevized escreveu:

Cool. It seems to have some potential. Kind of sounds like Strokes songs done with synths.

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weirdfish90 escreveu:

IT LEAKED IT LEAKED!?!? WHERE WHERE

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Bolshevized escreveu:

I've heard a few songs. It seems like pretty decent pop, but I dunno. I think they're a singles band for me. Maybe I'll give it another shot, another friend of mine likes that album a lot too. You should check out Dinosaur Jr., by the way. Best intros are You're Living All Over Me and/or Ear-Bleeding Country (a compilation).

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Bolshevized escreveu:

The ultimate reality may be fewer billionaires like Paul McCartney, but anything else requires government coercion to reimpose an old model that's no longer applicable. There's a ton of money out there that has been made, and a ton of interest in music, so I'm very suspicious to the idea that musicians will live in poverty if the government and RIAAs of the world don't keep the old model around. That's almost always the path to economic waste and the converse of progress.

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Bolshevized escreveu:

Now, the other reality is that the monetary value of music has dropped. There's no way way around that. Albums are available for no cost but the cost of bandwidth and storage. The record companies want to keep things the way they were and use the government to keep it that way, but the reality is this is just an example of "artificial scarcity" (an economic concept). As with all things, their product's value depends on scarcity, but music is no longer a scarce good. So, in conclusion, I think musicians need to adapt to the new reality. I support them that way by buying from bands who release on non-RIAA labels (RIAA Radar is a good site for that). I'm not a huge guy on shows, but that's obviously another way, as is merchandise. I also think it could work quite well for bands to offer things at a "name your price" model. I know I've wanted to support artists directly like that.

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Bolshevized escreveu:

Hmm. The record companies really have no one but themselves to blame for not meeting consumer demand in the online space (and when they try, it's inferior to what's out there for free - DRM, lossy MP3s, often more expensive than the comparable CD). On top of that, they sue customers and want to change the entire legal structure of societies just to keep their dinosaur business model operating. Have you read how they want to disconnect people from the Internet for supposedly pirating (the standards for the evidence they provide are very low, too)? With all of those considerations in mind, let's just say I don't feel bad for people who don't support the RIAA. A more "legal" way to show that lack of support is to just buy used CDs (which makes more economic sense, too, generally).

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Bolshevized escreveu:

They're on The List. I'll probably just check Merriweather first, then your recommendation next if I like that. I'm sure it's at least a decent album.

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Bolshevized escreveu:

Do you know the band Isis? You should check them out, they have some stuff available for streaming here. I ordered their Panopticon album, which is ranked as the third best album of 2004 on Rate Your Music (which you should start using!). Their style is basically "post-metal": a metal-y version of post-rock.

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