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Post by Deleted on Oct 7, 2008 18:50:13 GMT 1
Fran Healy defends illegal music downloads
Source: uk.news.yahoo.com
Fran Healy has claimed he doesn't care about fans pirating his music because they are still promoting it for him.
The Travis frontman - who attended the Q Music Awards at London's Grosvenor Hotel - said just by searching for his music to download for free, fans are doing him a favour.
Fran said: "If someone downloads an album, if they search for that record, they're a fan of the band. They download that record, that record (that's) 76p to manufacture.
"They get it for nothing - really you're paying the 76p for doing the most important job there is in the business which is word of mouth. If you made a great record and they are gabbering about it, these are the people that create the hype you know that's kind of important."
The singer confessed he had downloaded music illegally himself, saying: "Generally people who don't buy music are 12-year-old kids who can't afford it. I did it you know.
"So there's two schools - the ones that do buy and the ones that don't buy it. There will always be people that don't buy it and there will always be people that do buy it. It's fine. The people that do buy it will prop up the industry and keep it all going."
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Post by space on Oct 8, 2008 11:11:12 GMT 1
i only know that people should buy the new travis album
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Post by - C | N - on Oct 8, 2008 17:46:23 GMT 1
The man belongs behind bars, stealing is stealing - no matter how much it costs to make it.
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Post by oasisbobo on Oct 8, 2008 18:21:57 GMT 1
Agree!! People should buy the new Travis album!!
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Post by -Big Dan- on Oct 8, 2008 18:27:30 GMT 1
Consider it done!
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Post by greendemon on Oct 8, 2008 23:35:21 GMT 1
well i don't care what he thinks - i'm buying his new album!
i think travis are the only band i liked when i was about 14/15 who haven't declined. their most recent stuff has been up their with the best music they've ever written.
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Post by Maximo Mark on Oct 9, 2008 14:26:03 GMT 1
The man belongs behind bars, stealing is stealing - no matter how much it costs to make it. If free music is so wrong why do so many acts now happily give it away? |
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Post by - C | N - on Oct 9, 2008 18:06:58 GMT 1
The man belongs behind bars, stealing is stealing - no matter how much it costs to make it. If free music is so wrong why do so many acts now happily give it away? If they choose it to give it free BY THEIR OWN it's ok - but if it isn't intended to be free it's just plain stealing. By the way, they don't give their music away for free. The newspapers or labels pay them nevertheless for their efforts. |
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Post by Razzle Dazzle on Oct 9, 2008 18:22:31 GMT 1
bands that work hard enough and make good music will always have a loyal fanbase that pay to go to gigs. i think what fran means isthe people who would buy the music still buy the music. the people who download the songs would never buy the album anyway, but if its good they would become fans and buy the record and go to gigs and in a way it is free advertising. when i was 12 i recorded songs off the radio instead of buying them, its just the modern way of doing the same thing
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Post by Earl Purple on Oct 9, 2008 22:41:30 GMT 1
He said that he had downloaded music though. By the time there was such a thing Travis were already successful and he could afford to buy the music. Maybe he means when he was young he taped from the radio or taped albums from his friends. Well we know he lied when he was 17...
It also could be the case that at first before there was such a thing as legal downloads, there was some music that was pretty much impossible to buy but you could find by illegal downloading. And maybe he was only downloading those songs, possibly by bands he had never heard of, and if he liked them may even offer them a support slot on his next Travis tour.
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Post by vastar iner on Oct 10, 2008 11:34:53 GMT 1
I suppose he's taking the muso view - doesn't matter about making money so long as the music is out there and being heard. Doesn't pay the bills, but if it's artistically satisfactory rather than a cynical money-making enterprise that doesn't matter so much.
Then again, I've not seen any evidence that illegal downloading hurts sales significantly. The biggest year for "singles" sales seems to have been 2007, album sales 2004. Looks more like illegal downloading is INcreasting sales. Even 2007, which saw a decline in album sales, was 25% up on 1997.
How many illegal files are downloaded by people who do so to avoid paying a tenner for a CD? Most illegal downloads seem to be unavailable rarities, bootlegs and so on that are not release ever or only obtainable on the second-hand market (i.e. no revenue for the artist). Or, if it's stuff that is commercially available, it's stuff that people would not buy, or has been shared with a view to getting people interested in the band. I know I've discovered a lot thanks to file-sharing and have bought product as a direct result that I would never have done previously.
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Post by frag on Oct 12, 2008 23:58:06 GMT 1
Well we know he lied when he was 17...  Maybe that's a passive dig at illegal downloaders to shame them into buying stuff legally? |
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