Avast, Ye Mateys! 'Tis Time to Return to the Seas!

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  1. Tuckerfan

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    There's MP3s to plunder!
    And, yes, this is one of the few times when you should read the comments section of the article.
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  2. Tererune

    Tererune Troll princess and Magical Girl

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    I have finally found ways to eliminate the leaches from the artists. I fijnd music I like, and then I contribute directly through things like patreon, or things like paypal, or a couple of other methods. Yes, a small fee goes to the people who create the method for payment. I can deal with that. You know who doesn't get shit? Record producers. Yes, the fucking pimps who control contracts and fame and snort the profits right up their noses while telling everyone what they can listen to.

    Not that there was not a need and some great music produced by these gatekeeping scumbags, but now I really do not care for the slick produced garble that comes from pop music. As far as I am concerned the whole entire system of distribution has completely morphed from what it was thirty years ago due to high speed data.

    They need to do something new. I do not need to pay for a record execs hookers and blow so he can decide what will play on my radio and get distributed. I would really much rather pay almost directly to the artists, and if I need some recommendations, then you pitch them to me and I am glad to give. Make that system better and easier for people. Make the system, easy to drop something for the artist, and now you charge the tech fee because you no longer need these huge studios to distribute from the actual creators.

    It is a new day, and frankly I am sick of paying the hookers and blow for some talentless asshole who's only value is monetizing the spigot of content. I have not heard the new music I have liked on the radio or seen their physical media in decades, but I have found some great new music. I bet far more of the money I spend on it goes directly to the artists themselves.
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  3. matthunter

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    Don't tell me what I wouldn't steal, bitch.
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  4. Tererune

    Tererune Troll princess and Magical Girl

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    You would not steal @Uncle Albert 's taint stank from @Jenee 's lips.
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  5. Tererune

    Tererune Troll princess and Magical Girl

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    oh, and thanks for that set up.
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  6. matthunter

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    You can only ever borrow that.
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    Also, I would absolutely steal a car.
    You can't tell me it wouldn't be fun as hell to steal the presidential limo and have a high speed chase around DC before exploding into a ball of flame from multiple well aimed guided missiles erupting from Apache helicopters.
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  8. Uncle Albert

    Uncle Albert Part beard. Part machine.

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    As long as you accept that you forfeit your life in such an act.
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  9. Tererune

    Tererune Troll princess and Magical Girl

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    That is a way to go out.
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  10. Tererune

    Tererune Troll princess and Magical Girl

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    @Amaris has special Pegasister powers granted by Twilight Sparkle herself. So nothing wilkl taske her down and you are just wrong.

    The above argument is as valid as every argument and point UA has ever made, so it must be true.
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  11. Jenee

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    While sounds like a hoot, DC is heavily populated. The only time those chases are fun are on the dirt back roads of BFE.
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  12. Uncle Albert

    Uncle Albert Part beard. Part machine.

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    By all means, put it to the test and let me catch you trying to steal from me.
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  13. Tererune

    Tererune Troll princess and Magical Girl

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    What thew fuck are you even talking about? You pretend to ignore most everything else I say because if you responded it would be a fucking trump level disaster, and then you respond to that post and prove me completely right.

    Tell @Jenee to loosen her grip on your nuts because she is choking the oxygen from your brain.
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    LMAO. I can tell you with relative certainty that @Uncle Albert finds that more amusing than an insult.

    Try again.
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  15. Tererune

    Tererune Troll princess and Magical Girl

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    I cannot understand you while you are gargling the stank off his nuts so furiously.
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  16. Steal Your Face

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    I prefer physical media.
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  17. Bickendan

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    yabut I'd be concerned about the degradation of those 8-tracks. Better stick with punchcards.
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  18. Dr. Krieg

    Dr. Krieg Stay at Home Astronaut. Administrator Overlord

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    I prefer 8 Track and Lazer Disk.
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  19. matthunter

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    Never got into Laser Disk. Though the pub we frequented when I was an undergraduate (before the manager legged it with the proceeds) - The Bear Necessities - had a Laser Juke that had songs and the music videos. They were organised by category i.e. "Rock" or "Eighties" and a voice would announce the category in the same tone as the guy who says "Gladiators... REAAADDYY!!" on the TV show.

    One category was "Risque". It was usually every third play. Madonna or California Girls. But Alice Cooper's Poison was the charm, though it's pretty tame these days:

  20. Rincewiend

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    @Uncle Albert has no funny bone in his body...
    Or he would've understood Amaris' tongue-in-cheek post about joyriding the presidential limo as a joke...
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  21. Uncle Albert

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    Amaris is a fucking communist. They think theft is a righteous act if you use different terms to describe it.
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  22. Tererune

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    So says the Russian bot with Putin's cock in his mouth.

    Really, WTF is wrong with being a communist?