Do People Still Pay for Music?
Well firstly I can safely say that I still pay for music so at least there are some who do, however I am struggling to find anyone I know personally who actually pays for music. I think this is quite sad really, as music is something which can really help to bring out great emotions in us as humans. Music can make you feel happy even when you are at your saddest of times and I feel that a person who has produced something like that deserves to get paid for their work.
It seems it is getting so bad these days that people are almost allergic to paying for music.
The other day when I was at work I was listening to a track on my ipod at lunchtime and a colleague comes in and notices the track I am listening too and says “hey, I have been searching for that track everywhere, where did you get it?”
I said well I just bought it from itunes, its out in the charts so it’s easily available, where have you been looking?
He said “the usual places, all the download sites”
So I told him well if it’s not on those sites for download for free why not just buy it for the $1 it costs!?
He looked at me like I was something that just fell off the moon and simply said he never pays for music. He then asked me if I could copy it to a usb and give it to him the next time he was in which was in a weeks time. I agreed but I certainly wasn’t going to do that for him, I hoped he would forget about it.
However, a week later he comes up to me and says “hey I really want that track do you have it??”. I told him I had forgot and he should just buy it if he really wants it. He shook his head and said he doesn’t pay for music but he said he would come round to my house after work to get the download despite the fact I lived a long way away from him and it wouldn’t probably cost him more then a dollar just to ride the bus.
In the end I just avoided him till he forgot about the whole thing, and I hope he did have to buy it instead of someone giving it to him for free. Its quite amazing that this guy would go to such long winded lengths just to save a dollar because he doesn’t think you should have to pay for music.
Scary thought is that a lot of his younger generation all seem to think the same!
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