Only 5% of downloaded music is paid for

90's child · Post by **90's child** » Fri Oct 30, 2009 9:36 am

I love that statistic.

swishniak · Post by **swishniak** » Fri Oct 30, 2009 9:38 am

even more scary:

Only 5% of downloaded music is worth paying for

8O · Post by 8O » Fri Oct 30, 2009 9:39 am

And... 67.5% of users can't spell "paid" properly...

Trial and Error · Post by **Trial and Error** » Fri Oct 30, 2009 9:50 am

90's child · Post by **90's child** » Fri Oct 30, 2009 9:58 am

hey thanks for the ticket word police.

Cool Character · Post by **Cool Character** » Fri Oct 30, 2009 10:00 am

5% is a pretty big number.

I'm pleasantly surprised. Erm, does that statistic have a source?

timothyallan · Post by **timothyallan** » Fri Oct 30, 2009 10:03 am

I read that 65% of statistics are made up.

Bleep Blop Ima Robot · Post by **Bleep Blop Ima Robot** » Fri Oct 30, 2009 10:09 am

yeah id like to know where this came from, interesting information.

timothyallan · Post by **timothyallan** » Fri Oct 30, 2009 10:17 am

80% of the time, 95% of people will download music for free instead of paying for it.

90's child · Post by **90's child** » Fri Oct 30, 2009 10:18 am

Haha people in my social circle called me a loser when I left my studio engineer job in 2001 and got a proper office based job. They thought they would be able to make music full time, sit in the studio and smoke blunts and get paid £3000 for a electronic/dance EP. They thought "yeah we could easily knock out an ep a week and make £120k a year". Maybe retire at 45.

Now who's laughing you dicks? I've been getting paid and have work/real world experience but still make music in the evenings and at weekends. I love the fact that there is no pressure and I can make what I want. Yes the most I have ever been paid for a track is £350 but so what, I just love making tracks at my own leisure. I don't want to be a DJ or fly around the world playing at festivals.

Now you losers have realised that you have to get a proper job but you have no experience so are struggling. Who the hell is going to take on a 30 year old dude with no work experience? Sorry but its become clear in the last year that actually I'm the one who was right. Yer so I missed getting wasted at a few London Sunday night raves cos I had work the next day.

But the fact is that I can afford new studio toys when I want but you're still sitting on Logic 5.5 and you have to keep bouncing audio through Camel Phat one track at a time.

Hahaha I won.

timothyallan · Post by **timothyallan** » Fri Oct 30, 2009 10:30 am

90's child wrote:Haha people in my social circle called me a loser when I left my studio engineer job in 2001 and got a proper office based job. They thought they would be able to make music full time, sit in the studio and smoke blunts and get paid £3000 for a electronic/dance EP. They thought "yeah we could easily knock out an ep a week and make £120k a year". Maybe retire at 45.

Now who's laughing you dicks? I've been getting paid and have work/real world experience but still make music in the evenings and at weekends. I love the fact that there is no pressure and I can make what I want. Yes the most I have ever been paid for a track is £350 but so what, I just love making tracks at my own leisure. I don't want to be a DJ or fly around the world playing at festivals.

Now you losers have realised that you have to get a proper job but you have no experience so are struggling. Who the hell is going to take on a 30 year old dude with no work experience? Sorry but its become clear in the last year that actually I'm the one who was right. Yer so I missed getting wasted at a few London Sunday night raves cos I had work the next day.

But the fact is that I can afford new studio toys when I want but you're still sitting on Logic 5.5 and you have to keep bouncing audio through Camel Phat one track at a time.

Hahaha I won.

I'm betting that they won't be asking you for remix work anytime soon

Bleep Blop Ima Robot · Post by **Bleep Blop Ima Robot** » Fri Oct 30, 2009 10:32 am

little off topic from what you originally were talking about lol...what happened to this 5% shee

Green Lemon · Post by **Green Lemon** » Fri Oct 30, 2009 10:41 am

90's child wrote:Haha people in my social circle called me a loser when I left my studio engineer job in 2001 and got a proper office based job. They thought they would be able to make music full time, sit in the studio and smoke blunts and get paid £3000 for a electronic/dance EP. They thought "yeah we could easily knock out an ep a week and make £120k a year". Maybe retire at 45.

Now who's laughing you dicks? I've been getting paid and have work/real world experience but still make music in the evenings and at weekends. I love the fact that there is no pressure and I can make what I want. Yes the most I have ever been paid for a track is £350 but so what, I just love making tracks at my own leisure. I don't want to be a DJ or fly around the world playing at festivals.

Now you losers have realised that you have to get a proper job but you have no experience so are struggling. Who the hell is going to take on a 30 year old dude with no work experience? Sorry but its become clear in the last year that actually I'm the one who was right. Yer so I missed getting wasted at a few London Sunday night raves cos I had work the next day.

But the fact is that I can afford new studio toys when I want but you're still sitting on Logic 5.5 and you have to keep bouncing audio through Camel Phat one track at a time.

Hahaha I won.

You don't sound like you have issues.

90's child · Post by **90's child** » Fri Oct 30, 2009 11:03 am

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You don't sound like you have issues.[/quote]

OK thanks for that Oprah.

In other news:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8328820.stm

I hear Clive Bull on LBC radio taking about the article/link above. He sayed the 5% figure.

8O · Post by 8O » Fri Oct 30, 2009 11:11 am

90's child wrote:He sayed the 5% figure.

Now that's just stealing the policeman's hat! How did you get an office job with such bad spelling?

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