[Trash-talk] ah i lov it ah i love it!

Brendan Kelly garbageotaku at yahoo.com
Wed Feb 16 21:50:15 PST 2005


I don't quite get all the moral anxiety people are
feeling about whether or not to download BLM if it
leaks.  Now, if I had a promo copy, I wouldn't leak it
(Not to the general public anyway.  I might find a way
to give some TTers a listen ;)  But if someone else
leaks it, the deed is already done.  My downloading it
or not downloading it isn't gonna change that.

This is the way it's always been; we trashers search
and scratch and claw at every lead, trying to get a
listen, if we can, before the songs are released. 
It's like tradition--part of the excitement of a new
album coming out.  We had mp3s (crappy 64kbps quality)
of HIMH and YLSF months before V2.0 came out.  That
was before a lot of people had ever heard of an mp3. 
That was probably the day I downloaded winamp, just so
I could hear those 2 songs.

My rant isn't really directed at anyone here.  Matt's
comment just made me think of it.  Mostly I saw
arguments popping up on the official MB about this
stuff, and I just wanted to grab the naysayers by the
shoulders and shake them and say, "BUT DON'T YOU WANT
TO HEAR THE ALBUM!?!?"

Anyway, that's just my 2 cents.  If BLM leaks, I'll
download it in a heartbeat.  And I'll still insist on
getting to the store to buy it the very day it's
released.

Sorry for the rant.  I think I just needed to vent. 
phew...

- g.o.


--- matt <ifeelintoxicated at yahoo.com> wrote:

> I'm gonna say it now: as soon as the album becomes
> available for download, I'm gonna download it.  I
> did
> it with BG, and I never regretted it.  Plus, I
> bought
> like 3 copies of that album so it's not like I stole
> or anything.  :-)



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