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Beautevil
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2008-05-03 11:30:01 DOWN LOAD = KILLING BUSINESS?
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From: Red Hot Chili Peppers
When I woke up this morning I was confronted with the news that our record has been leaked to the Internet. It does not come out til may 9 but now it has leaked. And not that I know a lot about this kind of thing but I guess now it is possible to down load it for free if you want.
Well, that's not very nice.
If you down load it now off one of these file sharing sites you will be getting a pale imitation of the record. It will be of the poor sound quality of the technique they used to get it on there and that will break my heart.
It will break John Frusciante's heart, it will break Anthony Kiedis's heart and it will break the heart of Chad Smith.
Yes, we worked for a year and a half to make the epic record of our lives and it is sad to me for the business reasons of course. I think we are selling something really cool and we put all we had into it, 28 songs, 2 hours of the best that we can offer. And I think it is a fair deal for everyone. And for people to just steal a poor sound quality version of it for free because some asshole stole it and put it on the internet is sad to me.
But, equitable business reasons aside, the thing that really bums me out is we worked so hard, and so thoughtfully, all of us, for so long to make this record sound as warm and full from top to bottom as was possible. We spent day and night for a year making sure every little sound was just right. That they were all put together in the most beautiful way we could, we did not leave a stone unturned in doing that work.
I cannot put in words how much this record, Stadium Arcadium, means to us. How sacred the sound of it is to us and how many sleepless nights and hardworking days we all had thinking about how to make it be the best sounding thing we could.
And now, for someone to take it and put it out there with this poor sound quality, it is a painful pill for us to swallow.
Let me tell you, this bums all of us out and I know that, as sensitive as John Frusciante is about sound, the idea of anyone getting and hearing this thing that way will devastate him. For people to not hear the work the way we meant it to be will really hurt him deep inside and all of us will hurt.
Yes, it is stealing from us, and that is lame. Everyone has to live with their own conscience on that one. Let it be your guide. But to take a version that has been defiled sound wise a version in which some idiot has taken our year and a half of soul baring work and pissed all over it, that will break our hearts.
Sincerely,
Flea
Although the music isn't Gothtronic related, the problem is!
What do you think about this???
GrtZ Beau
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bob
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2006-05-28 10:37:25
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well its fucked up for the arists that a big groupe of the world downloads
but the point is
downloading is illegal but everbody can do it so everybody does it
i download like all my music
why ?
cause the record stores here suck they only have the most recent and *HIP* music
but not the older cool music
they dont have allot of music i listen to
metal , industrial enz enz
and thats why i download
and another thing
do you know how expencive cds are ?
common there was a periode when i didnt had a job
i mean now i work sometimes but i mean
a cd is like 15 / 20 euro's
and if i buy them i off to second hand shop(2e hans cd winkel)
he sells the cds for like 8 / 10 euro's
but still its expencive
cause if youre a big fan of a band and they have like 20 cds
you lost like 200 euro's only for that band and im a huge music lover
so if i had to buy all records of bands i like i had to quit school and work my ass of for years & years
and i mean if i like the band i buy band merchandise like the shirts , and dvd's so
im not downloading everything
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GhostPirate_Jinx
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2008-02-01 0:07:46
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Freakin Sik. Wow. Finally. Someone who speaks English. I speak horrible Dutch!
I love that album...actually, just the band in general. The whole thing is
fucked up! I mean, lose lose win win situation right? I download half of
my crap and buy half of it. At least that way I feel a LITTLE better. I pay
for the bands albums that are my favorite same with the T's and whatsamajibbly
...and I'm a total audiophile, so it all adds up in the end (oh damn it anyway). The
record stores where I live aren't horrible, but most of it is TOTAL mainstream.  Major
crapola. I like a lot of foreign bands and small bands that barely made it out of their
garage. That's the best stuff right there. You ever heard of Girugamesh? Best
Japanese band out there. I like Minimum Serious too. Goodbye California?
Great song by them...*thinks to self...I wonder if they filmed it in the U.S.?*
So I definatley agree with Localfre4k...
Sorry I just came out of nowhere and invaded your convo dude, but I'm
a total N3W8 on this site.
Jinx
Put your shit-kickers on and kick some shit.
"Kind words are short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless."
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