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Originally Posted by CarneVaca
Did you ever download the Gift of Screws files? Did you buy "Say You Will?"
I know of bands that make individual songs available for free in their sites before even releasing albums. And then the fans who download the songs go buy the albums.
Are you speaking for yourself?
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Yes I downloaded GOS and yes I bought SYW. This is not what I was talking about.
Of course I'm speaking for myself.
I also saw a FM fan site post the bonus tracks to the Tusk and Rumours reissues for downloading. I see fans complaining about not getting extras from the band and when they give us something a fan site posts the tracks so people don't have to buy it.
Yes, there are a core group of fans who are going to buy the commercial releases of everything FM and it's members put out. IMO, I think there are many of those same fans who would
not pay to buy Fritz recordings and wouldn't care if they received them by sharing files. I don't think you can compare the release of Lindsey's GOS tracks on SYW to Fritz recordings. While many of the core fans bought the reissues as soon as they came out, many did not buy them and once they had the bonus tracks from the fan site who chose to post them, I would bet many will never buy it. Perhaps those same fans would have downloaded them off of one of the major file sharing sites anyway. I'm only trying to make the comparison that for some fans those types of tracks are not in a class with new released songs from FM or one of its members.