"MP3 bloggers aren’t pirates; they’re enthusiasts, who encourage you to buy music from all the usual sources; as Heather Browne puts it on one of my favorite sites (“I Am Fuel, You Are Friends”), the mp3s you can download from their blogs are “for sampling purposes, kinda like when they give you the cheese cube at Costco, knowing that you’ll often go home with having bought the whole 7 lb. spiced Brie log.”
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The only trouble is that there are so many samples out there, of just about every musical food group imaginable, that you need never buy food again."
Nick Hornby via NYT.
Point #2 is interesting… Like the samples at Costco, there are definitely mp3’s that i’ll happily consume but would never buy. That said, I always come home with something.
I love the quote from Heather too. IAFYAF is my favorite (non-tumblr) music blog.
