Paid Music vs Free Music — Page 2

If you like.

Bingowings said:

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The image is from a television show which is therefore in all probability beneath your taste.

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Fixed.

Bazinga!

Darth Id said:

Bingowings said:

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The image is from a television show which is therefore in all probability beneath your taste.

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Fixed.

= translation: I just got rebuked in my insistence on the linked tracks "most likely" being inferior to comparable commercial productions by less lazy people's responses, and don't know what to say.

Here's a comparison between two electronic tracks.  One commercial, one distributed for free.  Feel free to just skip around for 10 seconds.

The commercial track:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QV8eiSA4vqc

The free track:

http://thesoftgreens.bandcamp.com/track/milk-and-cookies

Nevermind if you like the genres, which one appears to have more effort put into it? ;)

Jesus H. Christ and his Holy Momma, DEFINITELY THE FREE ONE!!!

I kinda like how the commercial one sounds, but honestly, it's just fucking boring and lazy.

By the way, since everyone's talking about Justin Bieber on that youtube clip... JUSTIN BIEBER IS A COMMERCIAL ARTIST. You know...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eEFlUkktDps

'nuff said.

;-)

Now this technically isn't a proper post on the topic because it's not about free music, but all about the score of a commercial video game (even though the score itself was never released), but I'd just like to demonstrate in a good example how extremely the quality can vary between different tracks from THE SAME COMMERCIAL PROJECT.

The talk is about the (now long closed) MMORPG The Matrix Online. 

Its quality ranged from absolute amazing stunning, distinctive genius stuff like this:

http://www.youtube.com/user/Reboothis#p/u/36/GRo2JKAz44o

http://www.youtube.com/user/Reboothis#p/u/39/x9S-_086BvI

to bland, cheap sounding direct rip-off stuff like this:

http://www.youtube.com/user/Reboothis#p/u/11/Y81suATzTSw

http://www.youtube.com/user/Reboothis#p/u/18/4d1XPvMhfL4

or plain old boring-ass uninteresting "fighting" tracks like this:

http://www.youtube.com/user/Reboothis#p/u/1/HpXO6kdgmrE

or actually pretty cool ones like this:

http://www.youtube.com/user/Reboothis#p/u/32/DCSxqixDOlU

Again, music "written" and produced for THE SAME GAME, afaik by the same people, and yet one sounds like inventive, originally produced "ambient" music kicking the living shit out of quite a few "meditation albums" out there, while the other sounds like a kid typed some of the movie score in his Guitar Pro at home.