it may or may not be an india only thingy - but do you agree that we are better off not squabbling with each other ?
put any two ranodm guys - you will have squabbling...
doesnt have to be indians or non indians - with indians we are a vocal lot - westerners are the quieter kind - but trust me, i have seen a fair deal of stomach burning, camp building, pulling down other guys etc.,
enna sirichcha maadhiriye moonjiya vechukuvaanga in office environment - plus we dont have 'group' x guys take a pickup truck and mow down random 'black guys' - as long as that is that it is fine.
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One last point on what irir123 said. Even if I agree to most everything he said, I cannot agree to the thiraipaadal ban. For God's sake, please don't ask that site to be banned. Infact I am ready to start a petition calling for the powers to be to ensure that thiraipaadal is not banned. I would personally ban the person who bans thiraipaadal.
Do we think ANY company will come up with CD releases of the late 90s songs of Raja? All we get is horrible quality from Agi. And who even knows which of the movie songs of 70s of Raja exixts. While I buy _every_ Raja CD that is released and definitely encourage all folks to buy originals, I still maintain that thiraipaadal is doing a HUGE service to everyone concerned: Music Director, Producer, Director etc. Otherwise I wouldn't have gone searching for music of movies like Kaadha Jaadhi. Anyway this is a huge topic, which requires a blog post on its own.
So one last time, please see to it that thiraipaadal is not banned.
you have donated to thiraipaadal.com right? You have all rights to ask a reason if they go down! :thumbsup:
And, why don't thiraipaadal.com put ads and make money, and take its own share and give the rest to Musicians?!? Raaga.com is doing so! Its paying the musicians, like FM channels, TV Music channels.
IMHO, I think we are unnecessarily discussing in favor of producers, MD, music company etc. They very well know about mp3 floating in the net. Inspite of that, they get audio rights and market the music. Which, to me, means that they still are making a huge profit. If they want to stop mp3s, let them do it, rather than we act like foot soldiers (for free) for their cause which will make them even more rich.
It doesn't necessarily mean that you buy original CD, you get a good quality. Ex - Agi, and some CD's of Echo. Where is the ethics in that by the audio companies?
As Suresh said, thiraipaadal is doing a huge service to unearth some golden songs of IR. Let's respect them.