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Originally Posted by andyl
Yes but I spend much, much more than the average consumer on CDs and often use download sites to taste songs to determine whether to by an LP or not. In a way, download sites are an effective marketing tool for the industry.
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But iTunes lets you do that, legally. I expect other legal music download services do as well. Back in the old days, there was a certain amount of justification for services like Napster - I d/l'ed Coldplay's Parachutes, we decided we liked it, we went out and bought it. 128k mp3s are no substitute for the real thing. But now I can just pop into the iTunes music store and sample something legally and without cost.
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And I can't see how they can be effective advertising if just one warez monkey can acquire himself £2,500 worth of goods! That's a pretty gyenormous advertising budget, whn you multiply it by the number of busy little warez monkeys there are.