boovidge wrote:I don't understand the anti-internet attitude that some of the "old school" thrashers seem to have. People are always going to steal music, you can't deny that in the 80s at least some people (probably a good number) copied tapes from cds,records or other tapes. Perhaps the internet has allowed more people to do it more easily.
I've read interviews where metal bands were calling the internet the "evilnet" (chuck chuldiner was one of them) Well it seems to me that the evilnet has made it possible for us thrash fans to form a community and also to gain access to information and music which would be unbelievably hard to find otherwise.
And look how the internet has been used to help promote bands. Everyone rips on myspace but suddenly their opinions change when they want to promote their music.
If you read my post it isnt anti internet at all. I just find it pretty wank that it is now considered almost someones right to have access to illegal uploads and fuck the bands that sweated and worked to get that music done. If you want something someone has worked to produce, why shouldnt you pay them for it???? If you were say, a graphic designer and you spent hours designing something for someone and then they just took a copy from you without permission and never paid you, youd think that was out of order, well whats the difference????
Oh yeah, and even without the internet we managed a community back in the 80s, but it was more respectful of the musicians who provide us with the stuff we love to hear. Maybe after some of the new bands have spent years trudging round club after club and earned enough to record a CD then sell 1000 or so and realise they have made fuck all from it people will realize!!! Theft is theft, made all the worse when you post here saying how much of a fan you are before you steal it!!!!!!!
(just getting off my soapbox now, okay lol)
