Does buying new CDs on ebay support artists?
If you were to buy a “new” CD from a music seller on ebay, generally one that has hundreds of them stocked in some warehouse, my guess still is that no royalties would go to the artist, so, in the artist’s view, is this basically the same thing as downloading music for free since the artist makes no money off of it?
As in, is having the physical CD the only purpose of buying them on ebay? Not to support the artists? I try to support the artists I really like.
Thanks.
Hmm. I can see economics teachers getting into fist-fights over a question like this.
In reality, the answer is yes. If there was no demand for a specific CD, people wouldn’t buy it and it wouldn’t be for sale on ebay in the first place. The seller got the CD somehow. They wouldn’t just get it for free. They must have paid the record label for it, who in turn, would have paid the artist. If you buy a second or third hand album, the artist would still have been paid somewhere along the line, even if it’s not your money. It’s completely different from downloading songs for free. No money is involved in something like that. Buying an album from a third party isn’t the same as stealing.
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