Does anyone else here boycott the RIAA?

[888888]

(Please note, this is not a political post. My only intent is to try to calculate the behavior of others rather than argue over the causes of it.)

After visiting this site,

http://www.downhillbattle.org/defense/

I was so offended by the huge lawsuits and generally disgusting behavior by the RIAA that I have decided never to buy another CD published by an RIAA member label again.

After buying tons of new CDs in my lifetime, I have decided to cease doing this completely. From now on, I will buy only used CDs, vinyl, and the like. It is bad enough that CDs are overpriced and copy-protected, now they are using OUR money to sue fellow customers and ruin their lives.

I am a musician and hope to make a living playing music. I understand the need for musicians to make a living and for engineers, managers, etc to get paid. However, I also understand the love that people have for music and it breaks my heart to think that some people are prohibitted from ever listening to all the wonderful music out there due to the high cost forced upon the market by the industry. There are plenty of ways for me to make a living off music without having people be humiliated and have their lives ruined because they wanted to listen to one of my songs without paying a company for it (the company would then give me like a dollar). If that means I will never become a millionaire or own a Lexus, so be it. If that means making most of my money off playing instead of royalties, so be it. I would talk about this some more but I think I am getting a little off-topic.

The point of this thread is not to once again start discussing the issue of online-music downloads. My question is simply how many people have been alienated by the recording industry enough to the point where they refuse to deal with it any longer.

[Capmaster]

I refuse to buy any more CDs. They can jam their $15 one-good-song CDs sideways up their asses

[makntraks]

Screw you all..... you never cared one bit about me...

makntraks

p.s.

[Rookie64]

I'll mostly buy CDs through half.com or auction sites.


I do support music DVDs and audio DVDs though.

[bazooka]

Yes, I boycott the riaa.

You can also visit these sites.

www.eff.org
www.boycottriaa.com
www.p2pnet.net
www.diaRIAA.com
www.donatemymusiccheck.com
www.slyck.com
www.zeropaid.com

[Cobra]

Not sure if it extends to the UK, but £15 for an album is getting silly. I do not buy any CDs aside from the bands who I think are really brilliant and do deserve my support - however little they recieve of my money after HMV and the record label are done with it...

[northcat_8]

I don't buy CDs either.

I'm pretty sure the music industry will survive without my money.

[yoda313]

Hello,

Gee, what a suprise Bazooka chimed in on this one!!

I only buy 3 or 4 cds a year at most. I buy the ones I want to support. Usually it's just Weird Al or Phil Collins I'm debating whether or not to pick up the new U2 album when its out. I like there last one in 2000

Kevin

--I do buy from ITunes so I can get the singles I want. --

[northcat_8]

That's the biggest hit to the RIAA's wallet if you ask me. When you can buy the single songs rather than the whole CD, people are going to do that. Who wants music they don't like? Like for example, country singers Big and Rich...they are one hit wonders, "Save a horse ride a cowboy". The rest of their CD sucks, no one wants to hear any of it. My wife went to a Tim McGraw concert and they opened for him, she said the crowd boo'd until they sang that one song, then boo'd every song after, until they sung it again.

Why pay $15 for the whole CD, when you are really paying $15 for one song.

[yoda313]

That's the biggest hit to the RIAA's wallet if you ask me. When you can buy the single songs rather than the whole CD, people are going to do that. Who wants music they don't like? Like for example, country singers Big and Rich...they are one hit wonders, "Save a horse ride a cowboy". The rest of their CD sucks, no one wants to hear any of it. My wife went to a Tim McGraw concert and they opened for him, she said the crowd boo'd until they sang that one song, then boo'd every song after, until they sung it again.

Why pay $15 for the whole CD, when you are really paying $15 for one song.

Hello,

Yeah but I also buy the WHOLE CD when I LIKE the band!

Kevin

[northcat_8]

Yea, I sometimes download the whole CD when I like the band too

[lordsmurf]

I refuse to buy any more CDs. They can jam their $15 one-good-song CDs sideways up their asses

I decided this years and years ago.

[SquirrelDip]

I haven't bought a single disk for about 2 years now - but can't say the same for my entire family. I have a 16 year old daughter...

I'm not actively boycotting but am actively curbing my spending on CD's - been using AllOfMp3.com for about the last year or so. I'll probably purchase a CD when something decent comes out.

[bazooka]

I refuse to buy any more CDs. They can jam their $15 one-good-song CDs sideways up their asses

This is a major problem that they refuse to see. People get tired of buying an overpriced product. People are also tired of buying a full cd just for one or two songs.

Out of the hundreds of cd's I have, there is maybe one or two discs that I like every song.

They were convicted of price-fixing but all you hear from the Riaa is woe is me.

This is about loss of control of the marketplace more than anything else.

[Roundabout]

I've mentioned this in other threads, but I will repeat it here:

I haven't bought a CD in years. Not a political statement, but just because I haven't heard anything in a long time that I would consider paying my hard-earned money for. I can't even tell you the last CD I bought, it was so long ago, really.

I don't buy movies either, for the same reason (or go to theaters). If there is something worthwhile, I have friends who may buy the DVD, and I can always go over to their house and watch it for free on their widescreen TV.

I have hundreds of CD's, but they are all bands from the 60's and 70's & a little 80's that I like. There wasn't anything in the 90's I'd buy.

So in a sense, I am boycotting the RIAA/MPAA, but more because of bad content (worthless content) than because of the price-fixing/suing model they have now. Let them rot.

[888888]

Although I really began my boycott of them when they, like the RIAA started suing their own customers back in November, I am now officially boycotting the MPAA as well. I feel like announcing this because of them shutting down all those BitTorrent tracker sites this week.

Does anyone here boycott the MPAA as well?

[ViRaL1]

As far as the RIAA, up until signing up for a new music service I never spent much on music. As for the MPAA, I get back at them in other ways.

[Faustus]

Not completely I've gone from 4 or 5 CDs per year to 1 or 2 though. They really Piss me off. Basicly I support the bands I really really like at this point.

MPAA is headed the same route if not worse.

[Conquest10]

Whatever happened to those "PSA" before each movie? You know, the ones with the "set builder" talking about how piracy hurts him. They get paid depending on what the movie grosses?

[Faustus]

Whatever happened to those "PSA" before each movie? You know, the ones with the "set builder" talking about how piracy hurts him. They get paid depending on what the movie grosses?

Yes. All the non stars who worked on Gigli died from startvation and exposure to the elements.

[ViRaL1]

Whatever happened to those "PSA" before each movie? You know, the ones with the "set builder" talking about how piracy hurts him. They get paid depending on what the movie grosses?

Yes. All the non stars who worked on Gigli died from startvation and exposure to the elements.

Pretty sad since you KNOW nobody bothered to pirate it.

[adam]

Its kinda hard to boycott the RIAA when you can't find anything worth buying anyway. I can't remember the last time I bought a cd. Everything I like was released years ago and I just can't get into what's popular today. I don't particuarly care who the RIAA sues personally, cause I know it won't be me. I'm happy with my ~100 or so cd collection and what I get on the radio.

Most of the music I buy these days is in the form of DVDs, (DVD-Audio, concerts, etc..)

[mrtristan]

No, I don't boycott them, but I hardly buy cds anyway. My position is similar to adam's.

After mp3's and napster got taken away, a lot of this "RIAA is the devil stuff" started coming out. I don't care what they do and who gets sued. I buy my music legally and I don't care if it's overpriced.

That's not to say that I haven't downloaded my share of mp3's back in the day, but once it became more troublesome than clicking on a few links in napster, I gave up. I'd rather just get the song off itunes or buy the cd. I'm not filled with self righteous indignation, now that the RIAA is trying to stop file sharing. I don't care.