Just chiming in to say that at least one person here buys LAM CDs, as well as t-shirts and other merch -- but only because some horrible jerk uploaded an LAM song to Youtube and I found out about the music . So much for record label promotion.

Having said that, file-sharing can be tremendously hurtful to artists for obvious reasons. While I don't engage in it or promote it, it seems that that Apple and other distributors screw over artists pretty hard. I've heard that, depending on the label, a purchase of a 99-cent track on iItunes gives the artist between 10 and 40 cents. Is this true? If so, I'd rather find a better way to pay LAM directly than just giving the money to Apple or whoever is getting the profit. Wouldn't it be cool if people were honest enough to download an album for free over filesharing networks and then send a check for 15$, 25$, or 30$ directly to the artist so all the middlemen were cut out? Obviously this won't happen, but oh well. For now I'll keep buying the CD's and doing anything else I can to keep LAM going.

Edit: wow my grammar are horribles today

Last Edited By: SamhainRising Mar 26 11 1:48 PM. Edited 3 times.