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Hi all,
we've never said we don't want to make money, without money our label wouldn't exsist, without money our bands couldn't tour and records couldn't be made. Money ISN'T the issue here, that's part of the point we're trying to make. Our download stance is more about the control of music/art by massive cororations who wish to gaurd their massive profit margins by limiting the way music is spread. The same companies who supply the mp3 players will sell you a CD disc with encryptions on there that will potentially break your PC possibly also supplied by the same corporation. They want to sell you mp3's that expire as well. We don't think that art needs to come from poverty, indeed the history of art is more overflowing with wealthy creators than otherwise...because friends education used to be the privelage of the wealthy. We just believe that art belongs to a wider community. Before the internet and mp3's , we old types used to tape LP's for our friends. "Man, you must listen to this, I bought it at the weekend" that's how we got into the stuff we're still buying today. Every one at Captains Of Industry are prolific music buyers "BUYERS" we download less that anyone I know, but we defend your right to download digital information without fear of prosecution. What the majors don't want is to not be in control of what is happening with music. If a band swells up from the digital underground without their contract hung heavy around the neck, they make no cut, they make no margin and they lose their control of the situation. We want a music scene where anything can happen for anyone, it's creative that way, that's where our heroes come from...many of those heroes went on to make millions, they're still our heroes...money has got fuck all to do with it. We want you to buy our music..straight fact, but we're also saying if you don't want to...well hell we'd rather you listened to it, gave it a shot, you might find something you love...in 10 years time you might still be loving it and it might enrich your life. You may even go to a gig, or buy a tshirt and at some point the whole community prospers. We do it because we believe, it's not a gimmik, it's not a fad, we may never make a penny but we feel it's the right thing. As for the six a month thing...well, you can listen to our radio anytime, every release page has every track(cept the stuff we don't own)available for download BUT our download CD's are full CD quality, our bandwidth simply wont allow us to give you 6 hours of back to back music at CD quality, it would cripple our website so no one could get anything. You can listen to everything we ever done on our site though. Hope that answers some questions. We're not cynics, we are dreamers...we like it that way.