How record bosses feel when you pirate their music.

bernando2 · 2012-09-14T18:01:34+00:00

romney when he doesn't get elected.

red321red321 · 2012-09-14T17:49:24+00:00

Can't we just talk about Rampart? Also, can y'all please refrain from torrenting the film's soundtrack? Thanks.

secrentagEnt · 2012-09-14T18:43:38+00:00

Did you type "bosses" because you couldn't spell executives?

brenan6 · 2012-09-14T18:41:03+00:00

the fuck is a "record boss"

Tidus5005 · 2012-09-14T16:00:17+00:00

First GIF I've ever made =]

Bill_Mountain · 2012-09-14T18:45:11+00:00

A friend of mine is in a band. I was with him when a bartender started telling him how much he loved the new album...that isn't out yet.

My friend wasn't too happy. After the bartender realized what he just did he swore he deleted the link and only made one copy and then bought us all beer.

He promised not to show anyone and my buddy just said, "show everyone but give to no one".

My buddy depends on album sales as part of his salary too. Maybe not directly but if his label can't move enough cd's then he'll get less promotion for shows and such.

TheBirdsareaGoodIdea · 2012-09-14T18:20:02+00:00

You know, artists, studio technicians, sound engineers all have to put food on the table. If you're going to pirate music then there's nothing much anybody can do to stop you but don't try to pretend that it's in any way ethical.

xAtarigeekx · 2012-09-14T18:40:13+00:00

DAE HATE BIG RECORD COMPANIES WHO HAVE THE NERVE TO CHARGE FOR A PRODUCT AND MAKE A PROFIT?

whatitdont · 2012-09-14T18:58:16+00:00

::sigh:: This is based on some very outdated preconceptions about the state of the recording industry.

The instant distribution power of the Internet × labels becoming outmoded due to file-sharing = no more record labels, or at least "label bosses," whatever that means... you seem to be imagining some shadowy Kingpin-like figure that never existed.

Anyway, this has happened already, congratulations, so we should stop pretending that pirating music is "sticking it to the man." File-sharing is well and good when the aim is to spread the word about music that you love, but it's completely backwards to think that sites like TPB and Megaupload are somehow noble. These are for-profit sites that collect ad revenue and pay nothing to the artists, developers and filmmakers that have their content stolen and posted. Spotify is not that much better, paying fractions of cents per stream while pocketing massive revenues from their advertisers. The new boss is worse than the old boss, as the saying goes.

Anyway, if you're going to file-share, I'd recommend using a communal non-profit site like What.CD. At the very least, you won't be lining the pockets of people profiting from piracy.

theoldpretender · 2012-09-14T17:52:52+00:00

DID SOMEONE SAY RAMPART?

scott_lappi · 2012-09-14T17:11:24+00:00

As a person who works in the industry... yeah, this is crap.

UnlessNothing · 2012-09-14T18:28:58+00:00

It's one of the biggest misconceptions in popular culture. Especially in an age where so many artists are independently releasing their material. People who steal music feel they are entitled to do so, and typically justify it with rediculous logic.

squink2 · 2012-09-14T10:49:17-07:00

Woody Harrelson feels no pain.

BrutalPun · 2012-09-14T18:47:51+00:00

i'm really just playing devil's advocate because i torrent and whatnot (and this may piss of those with a liberal mentality), but you can't just say "the record bosses are still going to be rich if people pirate their music, so we should do it / be allowed to do it". It's still their property -- the artists agreed to the terms of the record companies, and the record bosses were smart to do this. obviously it doesnt affect them much, but it isn't your (the creator of this gif / those who agree with it) right to decide the terms of when you can infringe upon other people's property rights (even if it's not tangible/finite, like in this case with music)

MidgetFetish · 2012-09-14T18:48:11+00:00

You have a very naive understanding of how the music business works.

PiratesAreThieves · 2012-09-14T18:34:59+00:00

I'd post an image about how a musician feels when you pirate their music, but it's difficult to summarise the feeling of having years of your own hard work taken from you by the self-entitled shitheads that are pirates.

Keep on fooling yourself that you're all Robin Hood figures and not ungrateful, cynical assholes, though.

dslicex · 2012-09-14T18:43:35+00:00

Record bosses of everything on the radio? Barely any independent labels are making money. This is a generalization =/

doomedredhead · 2012-09-14T18:57:17+00:00

As a former Warner Music employee I can vouch for this.

brunswick · 2012-09-14T18:46:49+00:00

And then he has sex with your prom date?

Piratiko · 2012-09-14T18:56:33+00:00

How Woody feels when you pirate Rampart.

ExplosionsAreCool · 2012-09-14T19:09:51+00:00

All the arguing about torrenting and all of that have made me want to say one thing. If you download music illegally and you listen to it on a regular basis. Go to that band's shows and buy merch. It's the least you can do for the hours of entertainment you can get from one record and it's where most bands get their money anyways.

farceur318 · 2012-09-14T17:59:23+00:00

"You almost knocked your alcohol over with your knife."

BuffPiggy · 2012-09-14T19:02:41+00:00

Pokemon is such shit now

mah131 · 2012-09-14T19:02:47+00:00

I was in a movie theater once and they showed an ad before hand about a director talking about people pirating his movies and blah blah blah. I shout out "oh, wipe your years with a hundred dollar bill!".

The lady in front of me just busted up laughing and kept chuckling through the previews and then after the film she turned around and told me that I had the funniest line of the night.

myusernameis___ · 2012-09-14T19:51:34+00:00

Anyone who thinks they deserve free music has probably never written a song. How would they feel if they spent hours making a sculpture and some asshat demands it, then if you refuse or, god forbid ask for money, they call you a sellout and steal it anyway, fuck that jazz.

redwinterwolf · 2012-09-14T19:55:45+00:00

Stop giving people excuses for piracy, it really does hurt content creators.

bipolar_sky_fairy · 2012-09-14T19:28:08+00:00

How Woody Harrelson felt when nobody gave a shit about Rampart

calupo · 2012-09-14T18:42:53+00:00

It's been ingrained into our culture that entertainers deserve a lot more money because they reach such a wide audience and because past entertainers have earned so much. Personally, I don't think a musician deserves more than an above average salary unless their music is clearly mind-blowing. I'm sure that being a musician is tough work but so is my job as a sysadmin and I don't even make $100k (not even close).

If the music is widespread enough that a good portion of people are listening, I'm sure they make at least three times my salary even if they suffer from piracy. Who cares if they don't make millions? I sure don't.

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