Price Tags and Protest Against Monopoly

We all hear about those sayings "BUY ORIGINAL CDs!". If we patronize these pirated stuffs then we are making these hard-working artists on the verge of bunkraptcy. Well, this is true obviously. When we buy pirated CDs the income produced from these stuffs are not going directly to the artist and the recording companies but to the bastards who ripped off their stuffs and sold them for their own good. It estimates millions of pesos had been lost because of these viruses.

I realized how hard is it to produce stuffs when i started Dilapidated Buko Pie and i never knew that it really was painstaking! It really needs large sums of money to buy materials for the demos. I regret that i bought these pirated CDs. Sometimes I feel so ashamed when i saw these artists playing live because i bought stuffs that had been stolen from them. but hey, i'm just a kid from those times and i want those songs from my favorite artists.

If there's one thing i hate about this is the monopoly. big recording companies do have strict contracts to monopolize the artists stuffs. there is no consideration of reduplicating unless you were grant permission to do so and sometimes you need to pay a certain price to do so. they sometimes say they care for music but actually they care about MONEY. this is why they hate pirate bastards because the money will go directly to rippers instead of going directly to them.

This is the reason why Dilapidated Buko Pie's first release is always FREE. It is my protest against the severe monopoly on music. I don't care about benefiting from selling my stuffs... i just want to spread my music and my message to everyone.

And of course where on earth do you get your money to continue producing your stuffs? from your mother? LOL that's why i put a P25 price tags on the remaining releases. (as an indie artist, me and my bandmates do the job of producing our own stuffs by recording it with our own pc and buy blank CDs and print layouts for producing demos)

Music is free for me. (i even don't care if people would rip it off and disperse it anywhere as long as they care for spreading my music and for my message) you can download it ANYTIME you want (there are links on our myspace and soundclick accounts). But the most precious thing we artist had are the CDs, Casette tapes, EPs, LPs, Vinyls etc etc we are producing. So if you wanna SUPPORT us, guys, and also other artists, i beg you to pay with MONEY. Not cellphone load, food or anything that is not money because these stuffs are affordable (with our own baon! lolz) and can't be used to buy blank CDs (or to pay the recording company to produce), papers, new equipments and instruments for making better music with more quality... DUH!!!