Hungry Lucy

I think you’re right about fans still buying the music. I think that’s one of the reasons that I love you guys so much, is because you don’t care if I share your music with my friends. for the bands that I really like, even if I have a mp3 verson of a cd, I’ll still buy a cd very too, becasue that helps the artist more then getting the mp3s off itunes. and that’s one of teh reasons to buy the cd, to help the artist. if you just want the music, you can get it off the internet, legal or otherwise. I think the problem is the major labels, as they seem to be the only one’s worried about music sharing. if the music is good, and people like it they will buy it!! and I’m done now

I always go for CDs – I hate it when there are digital only downloads of music, I often won’t buy them at all, I like my media in physical form and especially with artwork! With the Hungry Lucy CDs, I bought pretty much every version including standard and double CD versions from Alfa Matrix (partly as a ordering mistake but still I didn’t mind paying for the extra versions in support of you guys!)
What I would like to see is recognition by the big (and small) labels that music sharing isn’t necessarily a bad thing. Streaming music can give additional coverage of their artists work at effectively no cost to them (ok, so they’re probably more worried about no profits…) – I’ve bought many CDs (and often whole bands CD collections) from hearing good music streamed on the net, music that I would probably never have heard and therefore not purchased otherwise. There has to be some leeway for “fair use” of music “sharing” where there is the potential for this kind of exposure. Similarly with mix tapes – although the potential for misuse of of these more permanent media types is obviously a bigger issue than ephermal streaming say. Its a complex issue though…