Comments on: Reasons I don’t feel bad for downloading music illegally

By: Kayla

Kayla — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 15:59:31 +0000

I have never seen so many comments for one picture. tbh I completley enjoyed reading the comments. It was entertaining and gave you a chance to look into the eyes of other people.

By: joe

joe — Thu, 03 Feb 2011 02:57:33 +0000

dumbass…records sales go to the record company to pay the debt the artist has from the price of recording the album..then it’s splint into whatever predetermined portions between record company, management, a&r, and artist. Merch sales go to the artist and tour manager..to pay for more merch to be purchased and sold

By: Dave

Dave — Wed, 20 Oct 2010 11:30:29 +0000

don’t be an idiot. MTV cribs shows a super small minority of personnel in the music and audio industry, the industry still needs our support and your downloading music isn’t morally justified in the least.

By: Victory

Victory — Tue, 19 Oct 2010 12:49:59 +0000

Musicians do not make money from record sales. The recording company makes all of that money. Musicians make their money off of merchandise and concerts. Just sayin’. The rest of their money comes from making the record deal, which the record company pays them and then takes whatever money their album generates even if its more than what they had paid the musician.

By: Jason

Jason — Tue, 05 Oct 2010 11:38:01 +0000

That’s also illegal.
zing.

By: Anonymous 2

Anonymous 2 — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 14:30:52 +0000

How can that be a reason ?:

“Reasons I don’t feel bad for downloading music illegally”
– “Because I prefer to get my music legally”

So because you PREFER to get your music legally, you DON’T FEEL BAD for downloading illegally?
That makes no sense.

By: Pyrophosphate

Pyrophosphate — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 08:06:50 +0000

You’re all wrong. “Rap” is the abbreviated form of “crap.”

By: boo

boo — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 13:32:38 +0000

I take your “Amen” and raise you a “ditto”.

By: NmSiI

NmSiI — Thu, 06 May 2010 21:47:24 +0000

lol, lame excuse for stealing ^_^

By: The most worrying thing...

The most worrying thing... — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 01:20:33 +0000

…in all of this is the state of grammar in blogging. It rather diminishes credibility, I fear, even of the most intelligent comments (which, I should point out, come from Reality Sandwich. Of course, that assumes we run with this thread at all, rather than understand the whole premise of Graphjam, which is: it’s funny).

By: Phil

Phil — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 20:30:00 +0000

You are completely mistaken about this. Artists don’t make crap from live shows. only the biggest names make money off tours i.e U2 in which tickets can be 175 dollars or more. the whole point of going on tour is so people are exposed to your music and then will hopefully buy your album after.

By: j

Mon, 22 Mar 2010 14:18:20 +0000

u sound sexy ass hell lil momma call me

By: Wrapper

Wrapper — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 14:52:50 +0000

” Pazma says:
January 31, 2010 at 3:50 pm

It’s R.A.P, it stands for Rhythmic American Poetry.”

Your wrong — it stands for:

Retarded Ape Poetry

By: ella

ella — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 20:37:22 +0000

Omg! everyone plz can u all Shut up! thankz

By: hes dumb lol

hes dumb lol — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 15:15:07 +0000

lol… i din’t pay much attention to the content but the wording is amazing!!! lol

By: satr

satr — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 03:08:45 +0000

I TOTALLY AGREE 100%!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!LUV IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

By: rdaut

rdaut — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 07:19:09 +0000

It used to be that artist wanted to produce albums of material as a whole project and many wouldn’t evan sell singles. Now, so many “artists” just want to have one half decent hook that isreally only intended to sell as ring tones

By: rdaut

rdaut — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 07:14:31 +0000

It used to be that artist did concerts tours to promote the sales of record cuz that’s where they made there money. Touring with a band and all was so expensive, relatively, that they didn’t make much muoney , in fact could loose money on the tour

By: Pazma

Pazma — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 23:50:22 +0000

It’s R.A.P, it stands for Rhythmic American Poetry.

By: Icarus

Icarus — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 23:57:56 +0000

Actually, yes it would. Copyright and intellectual property laws are created by the government, not the RIAA.

<..> A DEMON DUCK!
*poofs out*

By: greenbiker

greenbiker — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 04:10:59 +0000

this is why i like cake…

By: Captain Obvious

Captain Obvious — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 08:55:14 +0000

The first person to comment, Eric.

By: nashz

nashz — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 13:20:02 +0000

me too. i mean i’ve never seen anyone make so many comments on one freakin pie chart.

enjoy the humour, laugh and move on people come on.

By: bob

bob — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 16:24:46 +0000

I’m pretty sure Eve has been on ribs and illegal applesharing

By: flatlander five

flatlander five — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 21:07:41 +0000

I giggled at the graph – but loled at the comments.

I mean srsly.

By: also

also — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 12:13:35 +0000

pish i dont even watch MTV haven’t since ever

By: HEEH.

HEEH. — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 21:03:20 +0000

Excellent point, actually.

By: sarah1of4

sarah1of4 — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 18:24:16 +0000

its a simple statement, he’s making the point that people who download music illegally don’t feel bad because of how much money music artists make (for all those pricks that don’t get it)
its simple and its funny, do you really have nothing better to do with your life than analyse it and point out that its not mathematically correct?!
and all those people who actually buy music.. wise up, unless u want a signed cd or need to mix records, they’re gona make fk loads of money anyway. only people i buy music from are people that are just starting out cause they actually need it!

By: LOL

LOL — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 22:37:57 +0000

LOL I THINK THIS GRAPH IS FUNNY

IT IS FUNNY BECAUSE PEOPLE ON MTV CRIBS ALWAYS HAVE REALLY NICE HOUSES AND SEEM LIKE MEAN PEOPLE SO YOU SHOULDN’T FEEL BAD ABOUT STEALING FROM THEM LOL.

ALSO SARAH PALIN 2012

ALSO RON PAUL ’08

ALSO THIS GRAPH IS LOL.

By: Greg Smith

Greg Smith — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 19:04:45 +0000

Did you know that alot of the houses on MTV Cribs are alleged to be completely fake, and not the famous person’s actual house at all?

By: This Guy

This Guy — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 08:12:56 +0000

Music is culture. I think that it’s the only thing we can all connect to forever. It’s life changing so we want it all, and we will listen to the music we like until the day we die. There’s too much good music out there. It’s saturated. Everyone has a wide array of songs stolen from bands like AC/DC, Caged Elephants, Kings of Leon, 2 Pac, Owl City, Garth Brooks, Beatles, Fratellis, Beastie Boys, Oasis, Cake. Look at how random your iTunes is. Great… Good For You. It’s not about money… It’s about the music.. That’s backwards… It’s about finding the new culture of music and giving them a career. Too many people are music fans and not music lovers. Don’t steal something that will give your afternoon drive meaning. Buy a new artist or someone you really like. And MTV’s ratings were down from music videos. Screw MTV…Way to make our culture so boring… oh wait… we did that.

What if we could just download everything in an instant the week they come out?… I wonder what that will do to movies… and video games…

By: then hes dumb

then hes dumb — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 20:20:02 +0000

If that’s what hes trying to say then he did a horrible job saying it, need a goddamn decoder ring in order to figure it out… im gonna stick with the idea that he didn’t know what he was talking about because in this case ignorance would make him look smarter than someone who doesn’t know how to speak… either way though he just sounds dumb.

By: dillon devoe

dillon devoe — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 06:09:41 +0000

how many of your favorite musicians have been on ribs? What about the one’s that aren’t? I wonder if that has to do with illegal filesharing.

By: Correction

Correction — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 03:26:28 +0000

I conquered.

By: thi_avatar

thi_avatar — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 21:37:59 +0000

you forgot the Lars of Metallica section

By: chuumon

chuumon — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 00:24:26 +0000

I always want to add an ‘e’ to the end.

By: Maxwerm

Maxwerm — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 23:30:54 +0000

I am a musician and I’m totally cool with people illegally downloading ALL music BECAUSE of filthy rich rock starz. I would love it if no-one ever made another dime in entertainment ever again – it would separate those with talent from the used-car salesmen. Entertainment would be good again.

By: Lando

Lando — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 07:27:26 +0000

AMEN. stumbleupon FAIL

By: Mr. McFeely

Mr. McFeely — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 07:01:19 +0000

Well, coming from a person who was in a band on a large record label, when you steal music from smaller bands, it pretty much kills them. We sold something like 8,000 copies in stores like Best Buy and the like, and the label stopped supporting us entirely. They might have wanted to look at the 200,000 copies (or more) that had been downloaded, but no, since it made them no money. We were no longer any kind of money maker, thus dropped, and broke up shortly thereafter from being sick of living for years on gas station food and sleeping in the tour van. I guess there is no moral to this story, since I used to (and still do occasionally) download music illegally as well, but now I’m vigilant about buying music from bands I love (at their shows, since that’s the only way they see ANY money).

By: Johnny Sarcasmic

Johnny Sarcasmic — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 04:27:28 +0000

I like my music illegal and toasty. Hell, I make music (badly granted) but I you’ll never hear me complain if somebody steals it.

By: SockItToTheMan

SockItToTheMan — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 04:20:20 +0000

Innovation requires adaptation, you can’t stop us.

By: Kara Goodfellow

Kara Goodfellow — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 02:05:32 +0000

I once went to a concert of a band that I already owned the cd. I bought it at the store. Well, I tried to get an autograph, but they were only giving them to people who bought the cd AT THE SHOW. Such BS, I’m downloading illegally from now on and buying the cd when I finally get to see them live.

By: rich

rich — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 20:09:07 +0000

true.. even bluray dvd’s are gettin cheaper.

By: boodonk

boodonk — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 14:22:38 +0000

I want pie.

By: terry

terry — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 09:18:17 +0000

the next time i hear music in the grocery store, i’ll make sure to stick my fingers in my ears until i find the designated rep of the artist, who must be lurking around the deli or produce section, ready to bust illegal listeners, and pay him or her the fee to take my fingers out of my ears so i’ll be able to legally hear the music and finish my shopping.

By: george bennett

george bennett — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 06:20:43 +0000

Steve Jobs (Apple CEO and inventor of the personal computer) says on avarage people with ipods download 19-30 songs? on a player that can store thousands….. where does the rest come from i wonder….

By: Zsa Zsa

Zsa Zsa — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 01:56:28 +0000

just download the dang music ppl! you either get the music illegally, get the music legally, or get the music illegally and get arrested. thats life 4 ya.

By: Realistic Pencil Drawings

Realistic Pencil Drawings — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 01:43:32 +0000

LOL, this is funny. However I like a lot of indie bands that do struggle. They need the support. Funny though…and true for the most part.

By: 1984

1984 — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 14:40:08 +0000

There are tons of artists who will never have much wealth…
And not every movie star makes a lot of money.

By: Actual Architect (Student)

Actual Architect (Student) — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 09:01:52 +0000

I can say that for architecture that although each design is original, should someone copy our design, we have no problem with that, so long as we get credit and we are paid for the copyright. But really even if we weren’t because they modified some small aspects of the building to make it different, we would still be happy knowing our design was popular enough to be copied. If no designs were like this and nobody “stole” an another architects ideas, then there would not be a such thing as Roman Architecture, Gothic Architecture, or Art Deco.