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Originally Posted by skatealex2
Alot of indie bands promote illegal downloading cause it gets their shows more popular and cause they're not making music for the same reasons shitty mainstream bands are. also online downloading causes hype when the band is good. for example last year the arcade fire's album neon bible leaked and that album even with it being on an indie label got no.2 i think in the billaboards. I personally never buy albums from labels (mainstream)that are part of the RIAA (the fuckers who try to make money off people illegaly downloading). I do support indie labels though cause from what I understand most of the good ones split the profits with the artists
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Yep, exactly.
There was a band that broke up a few years back (forgive me, because I can't rememeber the name) that released their album free to the first 100,000 or 200,000 people that requested one on their website. The reason for this, so they said, was because they made so much money doing their live shows that they couldn't care less about CD sales.