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Originally Posted by estranged4life
Eighty percent of the respondents consider it stealing to download music for free without the copyright holder's permission, and 92 percent say they've never done it, according to the poll conducted for The Associated Press and Rolling Stone magazine.
Meanwhile, three-quarters of music fans say compact discs are too expensive, and 58 percent say music in general is getting worse.
Kate Simkins, 30, of Cape Cod, Mass.
Mickey Johnson, 41, from Charleston, Tenn.
Greg Hoerger, 42, of Minneapolis
Christina Tjoelker, 49, from Snohomish, Wash.
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Well, I know if
I wanted to get an accurate pulse on how downloading is affecting the music industry, I'd definitely talk to lots of 40 year olds too.
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FM radio is still the main way most fans find out about new music, according to the poll.
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Which is breathtakingly sad, although unsurprising given the ages of the people they seemed to survey. Seems like a waste of a poll an and article to me. You want information on how the music industry is changing, so you interview a bunch of people who have probably already had their mid-life crises? What kind of stupid company polls a bunch of people over thirty and then draws the conclusion that most people don't download music?
Anyway, the hell with the major labels. I don't want them to get with the program. We'll all be a lot better off if the four of them just go bankrupt out of sheer incompetence.