Originally Posted by Ronin

It's pretty much all the fault of the stupidity of boring people.

I don't feel like supporting bands. Where is my gain in doing that?
I am not a freaking charity for musicians.

If they can't figure out their business they have none.

That's not a side blow, that is simply how it is.

Just to explain it a little:
Host your own server. Expect the same amount of piracy. Ask for 1$ for the complete Album as a HQ download in all formats. You already make three times more money than signed, with this business model, which is basically about high-schooler-start-up level complicated, if you estimate the sales going up 0% even though the price is a little more competitive.

I would say actually, that I feel cheated by those bands who are assholes to their fans by not doing this and forcing them to litter the world with pointless garbage.

You already can make more money from being on youtube than from CD sales anyways...
You would just have to have the want to stop it and quit being a freaking pain in the *** zombie infect, poisoned with the "music is the soul of artists sacrificed at the altar of muses" idiocy.