"Finaly the reason i stopped blogging is the luck of communication. I was sharing music to get feedback from other people who shared the same feelings and respect for the music (after all in real life (not online) i have very few people-friends with same feelings about this music.
A solution is i think blogs whithout download links...just like music libraries but whith links to the artist site in order to be able to get a normal copy or to push to the direction of a proper reissue"

hear hear.

the most depressing thing about so-called music 'blogs' is the total absence of any kind of real discussion.

The comments are always "Great!! That's brilliant!! You are a real saint and a martyr to music for giving us all these albums for free!!! Now could you put up everything else they've ever recorded?!! Like, immediately!!! LOL!!!!"

Rarely any info whatsoever about who these musicians are/were. Never any hint as to whether the musicians in question are dead or alive. Never any info about their current gigging status. Never any hint as to the world beyond in-the-home consumption of alienated product. Never any critical chat about what it was that made these albums good. Never a link to the people that made it or their family or the record label that facilitated the product in the first place.

If the people who ran these blogs really gave a shit about the musicians and facilitators they profess to be serving, they'd try to solicit their contribution. They'd want to hear them live. Or tell us some stories about them. Or give us some info about the styles, the playing. Anything! But they can't comprehend the idea of music being anything other than bytes to consume, filenames on a list, albums to tick off.

I miss fanzine culture. It was more participative and less unilateral. Things like music blogs have the potential to revive that kind of thing, but all the uploaders and downloaders are way too couch-potato to do anything that might involve actually standing up.

Out of all the many posts here, I think Pip is the only person who has acknowledged the option of voluntarily paying some unsolicited money to the person originally responsible for the piece of art.

I think it's hilarious that serial downloaders seem to think filehsaring is a radical revolutionary democratization of music when it's actually the ne plus ultra of capitalistic consumption: if you can take it, take it, and never spare a thought for the people who made it.