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Originally Posted by shitstain
i will agree that reviews are mostly dumb and who really gives a fuck about what someone else thinks of something like an SY album
but i will also say that who gives a fuck about what some reviewer in a magazine says.. what i mean is, there is no different between the reviewer who posts on here and tells you where to get it, and the reviewer in a magazine who tells you about it and that its available to buy in all major retail outlets.
i also imagine it does suck for SY to have to read all this shit.. but i think if SY approached the message board like a band like Animal Collective who some read the board a lot and talk about stuff with people, all this cold hearted review nonsense wouldnt occur. and i guess you can say that that is putting something on someone to do something to please someone else, but im just saying that if SY is sad or bummed as you put it, they should come on here and talk to the people interested in them about it, and maybe they would feel less sad...
i agree that accountability and respect is nice.. it's a really good thing to support music and art and bands.. but the reality is, if you want control over your art, you have to realize the way people and life work, in a totally non-judgemental way. whether or not you like life changing or not, if you want to have control over your arts presentation, you should see this very large, and popular form of music sharing and listening
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It's not even the technicality of whether or not you actually go and download the album. It's attitudes like this, that suggest that SY should resign themselves to that kind of behavior from fans. Worse still, that they're obligated in some way to explain themselves to us! That people dismiss their decision to have a release date, and feel that they are ENTITLED to a preview, that they somehow have co-ownership of this music (I hate to use the term ownership, but it will suffice for now). You DON'T! THEY made the album, and if THEY want you to get a preview, they'll provide a means of doing so. Until they do, NO, you don't have a "right" to any such thing!
There is NOTHING to debate here! Jeeeeeeesus