Once There Was: Otra cuestión importante en el negocio de la música es que la descarga ilegal es generalizada. ¿Cree que tiene un efecto en tus ingresos o nada en absoluto? Tanto si eres un artista con grandes ventas, o no...
Tuomas: Cuando se trata de nosotros, creo que definitivamente tiene un impacto, pero en ambos sentidos. Por tanto, creo que al final, realmente no nos duele mucho. Me gustaría pensar que nuestros fans son todavía el tipo de personas que quieren comprar la cosa real con la cubierta el libreto y todo. Y es también una buena publicidad, ya sabes. No tienes que ir a una tienda y escuchar en el álbum, puedes ir a Internet y descargar algunas canciones y, a continuación decir "OK, esto suena bien". Y realmente creo que quieren comprar el álbum. Si hay 10000 personas en el mundo que no quieren comprarlo, que se satisfacen con sólo descargarlo, no importa porque el factor comercial de Internet lo compensa.
Tampoco sale muy bien parada que digamos la industria en el tema de los miles de versiones de cada álbum, son "chupones o mamones" (no se muy bien como traducir este termino) dice, pero comprende que es su negocio.Tema a parte el de las radios comerciales atención a esta parte que tiene miga:
Y la otra cosa realmente "sucks" es que las radios son muy estrictas en estos tiempos, al menos las grandes radios comerciales, sobre como pueden ser de largas las canciones. Llevado al límite es ridículo. Depende de cada país, por supuesto, pero por ejemplo en el Reino Unido dijeron que no iban a poner "Amaranth", y no una vez.
Once There Was: Another important issue in the music business is that illegal downloading is widespread. Do you think it has an effect on you guys like income-wise or anything at all? You as a big-selling artist and you as a not-so-big-selling artist…
Tuomas: When it comes to us, I think it definitely has an impact, but it also goes both ways. So I think in the end it doesn't really hurt us that much. I would like to think that our fans are still the kind of people who want to buy the real thing with the real cover and booklet and everything. And it's also good advertising, you know. You don't have to go to a shop and listen to the album, you can just go to the Internet, download a few songs and then be like, "OK, this sounds good." And I really think that they want to buy the whole album. If there are 10,000 people in the world who don't want to buy it, who are satisfied with just downloading it, it doesn't matter because the commercial factor of the Internet compensates it.
Once There Was: Are there any other current issues in music business that you feel are important and affecting you in some way?
Tuomas: Well, I think this whole thing about releasing an album in different versions is totally getting out of hand. If somebody is doing it, then someone else makes a counterattack and then they make a counterattack and now there is like I don't even know how many different versions of our singles and CDs. And this is all about selling more albums and getting the single to be in the charts longer, it's all about that. This is the way music business works these days. I think it kinda sucks, but, of course, I also don't want to have any bad blood between us and the record labels because they have to do what they have to do. I think it would be really naive for us to say to them "No, you can just have this one version!" because they are trying to do the best for us as well. But I understand the fans' frustration also. And the other thing that really sucks is that the radios are really strict these days, at least the big commercial radios, about how long tracks can be. It's gone to the limits beyond ridiculous. It depends on the country of course but for instance UK said that they were not going to play "Amaranth", not once.
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