Comments on: Muse Rails Against Warner Music’s Anti-Streaming Stance

By: zoopster

zoopster — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 22:26:23 +0000

I know, I know, I’m behind the times. I just can’t kick my CD fixation! I did have some awesome Boston Acoustic speakers on my old gateway computer that sounded great, but they won’t work with my new dell.( I’ve tried!) Those I could live with. I gotta get something with better bass response. And you are totally right about the quality of the mp3 to begin with, if they are poor quality, it won’t matter what you listen to em on. I guess I gotta get an auto adapter for my ipod and see how that sounds in my truck. rowr!

By: gamejerk

gamejerk — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 22:06:19 +0000

@Zoop: Dinosaur! :P You can easily play those MP3’s on your home/car stereos. Just have to have the right equipment. Most car stereos these days have auxilary
inputs, or even better, a dedicated ipod connection. The same can be said for your home stereo depending on your setup. Worse comes to worse, buy some decent speakers for your computer. None of that means shit however if your MP3’s are encoded poorly. GIGO (Garbage In Garbage Out.)

By: zoopster

zoopster — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 17:20:56 +0000

I totally agree with you, Johnny, but at the same time, I can’t help feeling that Muse shouldn’t be surprised. They have definitely reaped the benefits of corporatized music, and are hand in hand with the devil.

If it was any band besides Muse, I would care, but since it is them complaining, I really don’t give a shit. This is what they get for sucking the corporate dick and churning out shitty mass produced albums devoid of artistry. I can’t help wondering if this is gonna get them dropped by their label. If so, that would be sweet irony for me.

And for the record, (no pun intended)I still like the CD format. I don’t promote the industry model; I don’t like having to buy music without listening to it first, that does suck, and I agree that streaming and file sharing is legitimate and vital way to find out about new music, (I too, was an addicted Limewire/Kazaa/etc.. user before the RIAA started coming down on people, and I still support filesharing, bootlegging, whatever you want to call it.) but the actual CD format is still usable and viable.

I play CDs on my home stereo, in my truck, and at work, and I like the quality of the sound produced by a CD and a real stereo instead of an ipod or a computer(don’t get me wrong, I have both of those as well, I just don’t think the sound produced even comes close to matching my stereo(s)). And I won’t even get started on vinyl, which I also think is still a great format and much prefer listening to than any mp3. IDK, maybe I’m wrong. Call me a dinosaur if you will.

By: Peter

Peter — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 17:16:32 +0000

T but downloading all music is like ripping off band you love, that’s not fair. I download music to check it out, if I like it I wll buy it, If the music is bad the performer/band/label are ripping me off. But I will always eventually buy the CD I love and enjoy for the respect for the artist and art, so they can continue in other – other way it is plain stealing nothing more nothing less.

By: Plastilina_Ve

Plastilina_Ve — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 13:42:35 +0000

It is a nice journalism project to follow the fall of the record industry. Even as a music lover, it’s just entertaining. But as an actual concern, I just can’t get myself to give a fuck about it. That industry was stabbed to death with Napster, and that was it. We are the listeners. We have the power, not them. Don’t want to stream? Fuck you, I’ll download it. Period. There is not even a fight going on. The “music industry” has been dead and rotten for more than a decade now. So, download and download and dowload some more. And instead of buying overpriced music, get yourself a big-ass hard drive to save all the terabytes of music you download.

By: T

Thu, 25 Feb 2010 09:30:03 +0000

I don’t buy music any more. I used to buy tonnes of it, but I feel that the record industry has not figured out how it works despite battling downloading for ten years and therefore I sleep soundly despite my criminal behaviour. Why would I buy a CD when I am simply transferring that music to my hard drive? Why would I pay to download music of an inferior quality when I can download lossless quality for free? Why are the record labels so stupid? Last year I posted a new Billy Talent song that I had recorded at a show prior to their new album being released. It got thousands of hits and was building up anticipation for the release of their album, at absolutely no expense to Warner Bros. Then the album leaked and Warners pulled all of the live videos off of YouTube. AFTER the album leaked mind you. Idiots. Did Warners move up the release of the album to counter the leak? No, they waited for months and lost a tonne of sales for Billy Talent. Morons. They have NO clue and it seems like they never will until they are looking for new jobs. RIP WB. Wake up to yourself.

P.S. I hope Muse doesn’t have many albums left in their contract because we all know what’s going to happen when that contract is up. :)

By: Peter

Peter — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 23:23:15 +0000

Don’t really care as I don’t use streams of albums at all. I won’t bullshit anyone, I download albums, If I like them I buy if not I don’t. I love having CDs/LPs with booklets etc but first must check if it it worth my money. I’ve got pretty big collection so buying CD is like a ritual for me, cos I’ve to spend money etc. But I hate using Streams, You Tube etc to listen to music, don’t know why prefer to download it anyway and give it a listen on my ipod.

By: Dub

Dub — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 19:47:24 +0000

What about samples or free singles or that kind of shit? It would give an idea of what the band/record is like.

By: Rory

Rory — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 18:50:30 +0000

My path to discovering Muse was much like Fernando’s…but thanks to P2P I decided I didn’t need to buy The Resistance…because it is a piece of shit.

By: Rob

Rob — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 18:31:34 +0000

amen. some companies just never learn.