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  3. Good to see all these sales numbers! Still lots of love for U2 around.
  6. WHERE'S MY BACKUP?!
  7. It's just ridiculous. So many people buying an album when you can have it for free.

    Only fans would/should buy it, so there's probably lots of them then.
  8. Originally posted by BelgianBono:It's just ridiculous. So many people buying an album when you can have it for free.

    Only fans would/should buy it, so there's probably lots of them then.

    Virtually all albums can be had for free in the internet era, dude. If everyone followed this, worldwide album sales would be 0. Zero. Nil. Null. Cero. Nada.

    Also, what about the many people (like myself) that doesn't like not having a physical copy of the music he likes? Not only U2, just all music. Not to speak about the high amount of population that doesn't have iTunes at all? I guess many of them will still want to listen to the new U2 album...
  9. Originally posted by BelgianBono:It's just ridiculous. So many people buying an album when you can have it for free.

    Only fans would/should buy it, so there's probably lots of them then.

    If people were immoral and internet savvy, they should be spending exactly zero dollars on music. Buy putting the album out for free, U2 saved a ton of people the time of doing a Google search.
  10. Originally posted by BelgianBono:It's just ridiculous. So many people buying an album when you can have it for free.

    Only fans would/should buy it, so there's probably lots of them then.

    I'm not sure what your point is ?
  11. The point is that this only tells how many diehard fans a band/artist still has.
    Otherwise you're not gonna buy an album when there's torrents, iTunes, Spotify, Youtube... + You can burn the CD yourself then.
    And those diehards (including myself, don't doubt it) are kinda irrational and ridiculous to spend money on any album nowadays.
    You're not gonna tell me this isn't the truth.
  12. Not necessarily. Don't forget about the deluxe songs that weren't available for download. I'm still going to say that these numbers reflect the buying power of the general public.
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