Promo MP3 Rip-Off Morality Question

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josh, i know, and i felt guilty about taping that beck album! i had my way with it and then didn't need to buy it when it came out. i'm sure this is happening with many radiohead fans too. and i agree with the person who said that it's one thing to make a tape for my own personal use; it's another to share it with millions of other people, some of whom might not be so reasonable as fred, who still buys cd's. there are plenty of kids for whom downloading and burning IS easy and second nature and as time marches on and technology improves there will be more and more of them.

― catherine, Thursday, 21 September 2000 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

four years pass...

Depends.

― Mark (MarkR), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 01:29 (eighteen years ago) link

Depends.

-- Mark (r-...) (webmail), August 10th, 2005. (MarkR)

On conditions such as, you know, if it's in /1up/ or /2up/.

― Mickey (modestmickey), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 02:48 (eighteen years ago) link

Why do rock critics and radio DJs need promo CDs anyway? Fuck them. They can wait until the release date just like everybody else.

― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 11:55 (eighteen years ago) link

Or even just download it in advance like everyone else - but I'm convinced most of them don't give enough of a shit about music to even bother about that!

― Chewshabadoo (Chewshabadoo), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 12:04 (eighteen years ago) link

a half decade gap between answer and question. is that a record?

― piscesboy, Wednesday, 10 August 2005 12:08 (eighteen years ago) link

There was a thing a few months about critics being sent more vinyl these days wasn't there?!

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 12:09 (eighteen years ago) link

Then they just ripped the vinyl to mp3s, didn't help anything.

― svend (svend), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 12:33 (eighteen years ago) link

Snrub = kidding, right? I mean, if every publication reviewed records five months after they came out, what would be the point of Magnet?

― nabisco (nabisco), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 18:41 (eighteen years ago) link

four years pass...

sony cut the promo cd supply, and word-y people react :

http://whatsheonaboutnow.blogspot.com/2010/03/end-of-promo-copy.html

personally speaking, my postie is chuffed to bits re the falloff in promo cd supply being directed towards irlm hq as my letterbox is a finger snapping beast. oh, and it also means i have a lot more freedom to listen to what i want to = major bonus.

― mark e, Wednesday, 3 March 2010 21:50 (fourteen years ago) link

I forget what streaming software it is that Sony use exactly but I had to use something called the MPE Player to listen to an Island (iirc) promo last week and it didn't work properly and completely fucked my PC up. Cocks. Soundcloud or god forbid an actual DL link, no problem

― sometimes I feel like throwing my glands up in the air (DJ Mencap), Wednesday, 3 March 2010 22:16 (fourteen years ago) link

i have used that MPE once for that guillemots bloke solo album.
was bearable experience, (actually i should qualify that, album was shite, the s/w bearable)
- but certainly wont be rushing to click the links next time i get any more such offers.
and yes, surely it must be a matter of time before soundcloud is bought out by a major and sucked up to be the main avenue for promo supply.

― mark e, Wednesday, 3 March 2010 22:26 (fourteen years ago) link

Play MPE works just fine on a Mac. I use it all the time. Get a real computer.

And that Sony thing may well be UK-only; Sony Latin here in the US just sent me a bunch of CDs.

― neither good nor bad, just a kid like you (unperson), Wednesday, 3 March 2010 22:34 (fourteen years ago) link

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