I get insulted because I buy my music...wait, what?

[Josh Diaz]

i get made fun of cuz i dont watch porn

 

[imperialreign]

How do artist even make money anymore? That music you're stealing is somebody else's intellectual property.

Wow sorry, what a really dumb thing to say.(No Offense)

Let us face facts boys and girls, every time you buy a CD, iTunes,etc that money goes straight to the recording label, where the artist gets maybe 2-5% royalties (this number can change based on how "big" the artist is, meaning Metallica,and other bigger names get more for royalties). Artists really make money from touring,shows,etc. So if you really want to support a band attend a concert, buy merchandise from the concert, because honestly that cd purchase is almost meaningless.

This seems like something fairly appropriate to post [http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=111952525523252&id=1297394525]. If nothing else, it is certainly interesting.

Pathetic, isn't it?

And take into account bands gear upkeep, too. Strings and drum skins break, electronics go down - and if you have any "specialty" equipment, that can get costly if something happens.

What I find sad, though, are some of the lame excuses people come up with to defend their piracy acts/habits.

OT: I've been ridiculed before for my scholarly interest in the occult

 

[Dango]

Oh, and liking J-Pop. Can't forget that.

Surprisingly, my friends are actually pretty tolerable of me liking J-pop, they don't make fun of me for liking it at all, which makes it even weirder that they make fun of me for liking anime.

I've also been made fun of for not watching porn and not masturbating.

 

[LorChan]

I get insulted by some of my best friends all the time for buying almost anything I could easily download. Which really sucks, because I'm not a particularly anti-pirate girl. I commonly download things if my DVD screws up and I can't watch it anymore. I can rationalize that because I've paid for it. If I see something illegally and I like it, I buy it. I buy all my music from iTunes, and a good bit of TV, too.

Stupidest thing, though? Some kid in my English class (the semester ends tomorrow, but I may see him again) keeps calling me out because I knit. He thinks it's stupid to knit.

 

[MiracleOfSound]

I once suggested that Portal was not actually the high point of all human artistic endeavor.

Oops.

Must have been a shitstorm....

It was a Valve-alanche!

The Valve-alanche
.

It starts with a post about Valve, usually involving the word 'cake', 'Episode 3' or 'boycott'.

Then someone says something bad about Valve... they make a little snowball and toss it down the mountain.

Before you know it, your thread is derailed and hurling ten thousand tonnes of raging snow down its sides in an orgasmic, elemental shitstorm of insults, fanboy wankery and intense 'Gabe is fat! Gordon Freeman has no legs!' anti-Valve flaming.

The Valve-alanche.
You heard it here first.

 

[SodaDew]

I've been insulted for not going 100 MPH on a small dirt road... id rather live then look like a douche.

 

[Drake_Dercon]

Lots of people get insulted for lots of trivial things. Society is a *****.
So much so that I'm too much of a coward to even cite personal experience online.

 

[bruunwald]

I'm old enough to have forgotten more insults than most here have probably ever received.

But yeah, among the dumber ones were getting razzed for not drinking/smoking/stealing/being "cool" in a peer pressure kind of way. Got that a lot, growing up in a big weed town.

Had a friend who was so "cool" because he didn't care about anything. That pretty much made me an idiot for everything from having a favorite color to actually caring about my girlfriend to showing up to work on time, to not stealing things whenever I had the chance. Really intolerable, a guy like that.

 

[Drummie666]

I've been insulted for not having bought MW2 and black ops. I getting black ops so I can shut him up and then gloat about not liking it.

 

[SovereigntySama]

Some guys insulted me because I had a Wii and a PS3 instead of a PS3 and 360. I'm not going to post what my response was, because it'll likely start a flamewar.

considering most games come out on both the PS3 and the 360, but the cute games (ie the ones my best friend has (and all the Mario games)) come out on the Wii, your choice seems the most logical... (for variety) My only issue with the wii is the tv smashing an window smashing... that and the "HARD CORE" games don't like it because its made for the general community (guess what the 360 is doing that too) and means they actually have to move something more than their fingers...

Says the girl who has created a new save on her AC brotherhood game on the 360 so that she can finish all the shop quests... Need to kill some more messengers (or steal from/grab) to get the last item... Which is why i'm not playing it very often...

 

[WeBeNukin]

Liking black metal. All the time. Todays "popular music" is big, because people have weak stomachs and can't handle something of substance.

As for pirating vs. buying I would buy more music if we could cut out the the overpaid, parasitic record companies who play middleman.

 

[GiantRaven]

They're not that bad. Certainly not the worst. I live in a spot where lots of local generic metalcore bands play local shows for cheap, one of which (Onward To Olympas; not inventive but they're really good at what they do. Check them out.) got signed recently. So a fair number of people around here eat it all up, from Bring me the Horizon to the once-good-now-not-so Underoath. Oh, yeah, and The Devil Wears Prada. You'd think TDWP was some sort of modern Beethoven or something.

I'm most likely being ridiculously biased. Thinking about the bands you mention here makes me want to mentally punch myself in the face.

 

[Dr.Fantastic]

From 1st grade through 9th grade I was insulted because the outer part of my eyebrows used to be so light(I have blond hair by the way)that it sorta looked like someone shaved my eyebrows while I was sleeping. It was just plain annoying. Looking back I think I handled it well.

 

[SovereigntySama]

I've been insulted for not going 100 MPH on a small dirt road... id rather live then look like a douche.

Lolz, just because you can doesn't mean you should...

 

[no oneder]

I also buy my music, from iTunes and music retailers. I also buy lots and lots of vinyls. People nowadays seem to think the only way to get music is by downloading it illegally. The counter-insult I give when insulted about me buying my music is: "Well, I'm not poor, so I actually can buy music, not steal it". I seem to get them with the poor thing.

 

[rubinigosa]

I've been insulted for not spending my money on useless shit, like its wrong that I do not spend my money on alcohol and cigarettes.

 

[r0binh00d]

Not drinking alcohol? Well that's stupid, I can name 4 people off the top of my head (all in different colleges, all extroverted popular people) who don't drink any alcohol.

Stupidest thing I've been insulted for? Uhhh... The insults that go to my last name usually outshine any others, although at one point I was laughed at for listening to a generic metal song. For those interested:

Hey thanks for that link, I like that.
Always love listening to new music (new to me I mean)

OT:
I've been called the c-bomb over facebook (yes everyone saw it) by my housemate. He didn't say why until I got home and raged at him, then he revealed that he thought I'd ripped the invoice number off one of the bills but actually I didn't, it wasn't ripped.
yeah....

Similar words from some kid (+friends) who thought it was fun to throw snowballs at my house. Repeatedly, every night, more than once per night, for 2 weeks.

Police of course felt it was a waste of time showing up, and that nothing could be done until something got vandalised.

One time I was a bit drunk and heard the expected thump/bang of a snowball slamming into my window, so I got up, went outside and made a pile of snowballs.
Then I tracked the group down (I knew who they were and where they would be - throwing snowballs at other houses in my street) and pelted them all, while shouting "oh what's wrong, I thought you wanted a snowball fight?".

The kid flipped and was screaming blue murder at me (like it wasn't fair to have the tables turned) as I walked off, snowballs expended, but I didn't care because I was laughing my arse off harder than I have in years, and the indignant bluster of the kid in question made me laugh all the harder.

Take that, youth of today!

In hindisght I would never have done that sober - but hell yes it was worth it

 

[BabyRaptor]

I once had a guy accuse me of being a "F****** Librul elitist" who "supports the Fascist government telling people what they can and can't do" because I suggested he install a virus scanner on his computer to avoid constantly having to take it to the shop after porn binges.

Later, his son pulled me aside and explained that Daddy was convinced virus scanners were the way that Teh Evul Black Guy in the White House spied on the citizenry's computer habits.