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Only 5% of downloaded music is paid for
Posted: Fri Oct 30, 2009 9:36 am
by 90's child
I love that statistic.
Re: Only 5% of downloaded music is payed for
Posted: Fri Oct 30, 2009 9:38 am
by swishniak
even more scary:
Only 5% of downloaded music is worth paying for
Re: Only 5% of downloaded music is payed for
Posted: Fri Oct 30, 2009 9:39 am
by 8O
And... 67.5% of users can't spell "paid" properly...

Re: Only 5% of downloaded music is payed for
Posted: Fri Oct 30, 2009 9:50 am
by Trial and Error
lol

Re: Only 5% of downloaded music is paid for
Posted: Fri Oct 30, 2009 9:58 am
by 90's child
hey thanks for the ticket word police.

Re: Only 5% of downloaded music is paid for
Posted: Fri Oct 30, 2009 10:00 am
by Cool Character
5% is a pretty big number.
I'm pleasantly surprised. Erm, does that statistic have a source?
Re: Only 5% of downloaded music is paid for
Posted: Fri Oct 30, 2009 10:03 am
by timothyallan
I read that 65% of statistics are made up.
Re: Only 5% of downloaded music is paid for
Posted: Fri Oct 30, 2009 10:09 am
by Bleep Blop Ima Robot
yeah id like to know where this came from, interesting information.
Re: Only 5% of downloaded music is paid for
Posted: Fri Oct 30, 2009 10:17 am
by timothyallan
80% of the time, 95% of people will download music for free instead of paying for it.
Re: Only 5% of downloaded music is paid for
Posted: Fri Oct 30, 2009 10:18 am
by 90's child
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.
Re: Only 5% of downloaded music is paid for
Posted: Fri Oct 30, 2009 10:30 am
by timothyallan
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

Re: Only 5% of downloaded music is paid for
Posted: Fri Oct 30, 2009 10:32 am
by Bleep Blop Ima Robot
little off topic from what you originally were talking about lol...what happened to this 5% shee
Re: Only 5% of downloaded music is paid for
Posted: Fri Oct 30, 2009 10:41 am
by Green Lemon
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.
Re: Only 5% of downloaded music is paid for
Posted: Fri Oct 30, 2009 11:03 am
by 90's child
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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.
Re: Only 5% of downloaded music is paid for
Posted: Fri Oct 30, 2009 11:11 am
by 8O
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?
