Jamie Cullum: File-Sharing is OK
At a very young age – 30 years old, Jamie Cullum has become a very acclaimed name in contemporary jazz music who already has released five studio albums. The latest one, entitled “Pursuit”, came out at the beginning of November and according to some estimations the artist lost around 60,000 sales of the album because of illegal file sharing.
That hasn’t made Cullum change his attitude towards file sharing which is seen as something natural with both upsides and downsides.
In a recent interview he admitted to Post Chronicle: "I'm a music consumer of the highest order, and I spend an awful lot of my time looking for music, buying music, downloading music legally and illegally.
"I make no bones about it – if there's some Thom Yorke EP floating around and it's not out until next week, then I'll download it illegally."
The artist stressed, however, then, that the initial enthusiasm doesn’t prevent a sort of awareness and respect for the artist’s work and doesn’t get a real music fan used to not wanting to have the real deal:
"However, the following week I'll buy it because I want the artwork, and I want to see the notes and to find out where it was recorded and all the rest."
About his leaked album, “Pursuit”, Cullum said: "The flip side of that is, four weeks before 'The Pursuit' came out, I was getting all these tweets from people who'd heard it because some of the CDs sent out to journalists had found their way online. I know the album has been illegally downloaded at least 60,000 times, which is as many as the record has actually sold."
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