h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Peer to Peer is lovely.



its good to share.



Buy the singles, on vynil, of the bands you really love, and go to gigs where the devoted music makers will perform for your and thier pleasure. Money isn't the reason music happens, so downloads and lower record sales will not stop people making music. I don't care if the recording industry can't pay for their shiny offices and Robbie Williams contracts... ooh poor them.

Not communism, that was merely a concentration of the ruling class, this is socialism. not the point i am making though. P2P is the best thing that could happen to the music industry, if we are lucky in the future it will cease to be an industry. The idea of prefabricating music for a market is what has led to the utter lack of experimentation or real talent in popular music of the last few decades. If you first learn to play with pound signs in you head, you shouldn't bother. Capitalism and artistic expression can't co-habit the same space, one will smother the other. We should all actively liberate music, we will not harm the musicians just the suits. The Grateful Dead, one of the most financially successful bands of the last century, advocated music sharing. And made good music.

I utterly agree with Fathead.

99.9% of what comes by on the radio, or popular TV channels is computer fabricated or generated, something I can accomplish in an hour with Ejay or Magix.
it just gave me a much bigger appreciation of what bands like metallica or the red hot chilli peppers do.

share crappy music so nobody else will buy it