My music happens to be growing a strong following with my roommates without the use of the internet.

Maybe that's a good thing, setting expectations low and whatnot...

This blog looks awful and the writeups are each their own special pieces of English gobbletygook. It IS public exposure, but it could be done better without the sketchy downloads practice and lack of effort to do more than post links.

I've been browsing the blog and I actually really like the content and will check out a lot of the stuff.  This is exactly the type of blog that Datathrash grew out of back when it was just a Tumblr account.  I understand the amount of time that goes into searching for good hardcore chip and electronic stuff not to mention straight up deathcore and metal.

That said, until the issue of posting non-free albums for free download is taken care of I won't be recommending or linking to the blog.  I've done my share of pirating but I'm over it now and won't be supporting it.

I'm completely fine with it. Believe me, I could use the money from people "paying what they want" on my Bandcamp. I don't work, my wife and I just had a kid, boo fuckin' hoo etc. But I download so much mainstream (and some obscure stuff like 70s library music vinyl rips) stuff from these type of blogs that I'd be a mega hypocrite to ever complain. I'm stoked that people give enough of a fuck about my existence that they'd want to share / download my music.

here are examples of blogs that i feel are well written and are also beneficial for the artists. blogs should be informative in terms of the history of the artist, other projects, area they're from, that kind of thing. sadly abptbap doesnt have a ton of information about the artists across all of the blog entries. it really needs to be more thought out if you want people to get the most out of it or use it. it has good things going for it, but i think it's important to look at other blogs as much as possible to see the differences between whats here and what makes a sticky blog. try and make a shift to making it a bit more informative as well as working with the artists themselves. dont change the names of the releases to leetspeak on your mediafire links so that if people download it and listen to it later they have a hard time figuring out what it is that they downloaded. these are simple things to change so that it can be more of a success.

Actually, fuck it. Because people are too rash to just notify any possibly concerned artists to ask him to remove any music they really want taken down, I'm just going to download every single piece of music on this, free or not, and never pay for another piece of music again (especially chip). You have ruined my favourite blog over your pettiness, so I will be even more petty. Even more loathesome than you.

Holy shit dude.  Chill out.  Why is it that everyone reacts SO strongly?

I posted this blog as a simple heads-up to artists who want money for their work.  This forum is mostly frequented by artists.  Some of them might care about their stuff being posted for free.  (For the record, my stuff is on that blog and I don't care, because my stuff is free already, and I kind of like that blog.  I'm not trying to make a living at chip music.  Anamanaguchi is, and maybe they won't like their stuff posted for free on blogs, I dunno.)

As far as cm.org threads go, this has been pretty mild, honestly, so I'm confused about why you're taking such huge offense.

The most offensive thing in this entire thread, in my opinion, is your statement about "anyone dumb enough to pay for digital music."  Because, hey, people who just release music digitally are fucktards who don't deserve money, right? 

One thing the blog in question does right is not posting added content.  Danimal Cannon's Roots album, as downloaded from the blog, doesn't come with the lsdsngs and .sav files.  That's a nice move on the blog's part, because bonus content like source files are things people pay for.  Good on the blog.

But heaven forbid someone get paid for releasing an album as mp3!

Actually, fuck it. Because people are too rash to just notify any possibly concerned artists to ask him to remove any music they really want taken down, I'm just going to download every single piece of music on this, free or not, and never pay for another piece of music again (especially chip). You have ruined my favourite blog over your pettiness, so I will be even more petty. Even more loathesome than you.

your favorite blog? oh god, what will you do now?
wish people could keep in mind that the artists in this scene (and most underground music scenes) are broke as hell, they work day jobs and cram in the time to still write music and share it... if they think it should be paid for, pay for it... we arent talking about the difference between 14 luxury cars and 15 for these people, sometimes its the difference between going hungry and eating... cough up $5 and if credit cards arent your thing, buy prepaid gift cards, you lazy jerks

I'mHeadingForABombShelter wrote:

Dude, the blog is hard to run. HEAPS of the guys time goes into posting.

Sometimes, time =/= quality.
My English teachers keep telling the class this. You can spend half the exam time writing fifty pages of essays, but you mightn't actually answer the question and you could get shitty marks, in comparo to a kid that spent thirty minutes and wrote three pages and scored full-marks.

If somebody tells you that the content could be better, saying that you spent a long time on it really isn't a valid justification. Perhaps take the criticism on board and spend more time and effort on the content.

Also, it's kinda cool that CRTified Technician is on there! I've been following Dtrx's works for a while and he definitely needs more attention, haha.

But while time spent != quality, it can be = effort. And if he puts so much time as I'mHeadingForABombShelter, it shows he at least likes it very much.