Downloading Metal
For the love of God guys, please buy your damn music!!! For any fan of metal music, just buy it. When you download instead of buy, you are killing the industry, killing the genre and killing bands.
How is it that bands like The Red Chord, Devildriver, A Life Once Lost etc have millions of hits on their myspace pages but can’t break 20,000 copies sold? DOWNLOADING, there are so many amazing bands that slug it out in vans, not even buses, vans, have to tour for a year straight just to break even on the record they made for YOU!
I’m just tired of seeing bands struggle and break-up because kids can’t part with $15. So please, these aren’t wealthy people who you’re stealing from, these are guys that barely make a living doing what they love, which is making metal us to enjoy. So please, go to shows, buy merch and buy the album, you will see the metal seen change in a good way as a result.
I completly agree! Pay for the service and product bands provide, especially metal bands! K
Yeah it is a sad thing that teenagers can’t part with $15 dollars just to buy an amazing record from some great bands. However, selling CDs is one of the smaller ways that the band makes money. Merchandise such as T-Shirts, Rings, Hats, Belt-Buckles, that all those DEDICATED metalheads (and scene kids, excuse my language but it’s true) buy generate a lot more profit than all of the CDs that the band sells.
Even so, good point!