2517070, btw I apologize if I've come off particularly strident in here
Posted by AFKAP_of_Darkness, Sat Feb-26-11 01:09 AM
It's just that this particular issue and this attitude of entitlement (as I see it) among contemporary fans just deeply angers me.
It always has, and now that I am kind of in the music biz myself, I take it a lot more personally now.
It's true that time marches on and the paradigms shift. Maybe we ARE heading towards an era in which the audience will expect all art to be free and those of us who create/market it have to go back to the drawing board to think of new ways to keep doing what we do.
But it just really infuriates me when fans are so entitled that they are actually castigating artists and making it seem like they are scoundrels and terrorists for not giving away products that cost them considerable expenditure to produce.
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