Fact 1: The only way for an artist to make money now adays with illegal downloading all over the world is to appear at concerts.
Fact 2: If the music is available to be bought online, it is also available to be downloaded THE PIRATE WAY.
Conclusion: If an artist stops touring, they will soon become very poor.
On the other hand, they will piss off some Wade Fulp guy somewhere from the USA... it's hard to say whether they'd keep touring to earn money and satisfy MILLIONS OF FANS, or if they'd stop touring, quit earning money, give up their music BUT satisfy one Wade. It's "really" hard to tell, it sure is.
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Hey, I sure get what you mean with what you're saying, but don't we rather have artists who says "Consume less" than hell bound fuckers who keeps smashing their guitars each show and burns a massive amount of fireworks during their wicked concerts?
I am aware of that what these people are doing is something that Hilary does in "The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air" show, in one episode she's planning to be driving a bus around the city, demonstrating against pollution and ending the day with a huge bonfire at the beach. But we're all hypocrites sometime, even if we don't know it.
You're co-running this huge site which draws the attention of millions of people, who spends more hours in front of the computer than they've ever did, thanks to this site. Don't you think that these artists could be criticizing you?
"He's running a huge site on the Internet where millions of people spend their time while wasting electricity, only so that he can tell others that consumption is bad!"