dude that was an example of peer pressure ydi

I say fyl, illegal downloading these days...

It was a risk, but seriously, you shouldn't care if they're you're friends. What they have done is illegal and they should be punished accordingly.

Hi, This is an expensive way to find out your friends are really nice and supportive … Think of music as just another business. Any "respectable" business should have a "plan" somewhere in the beginning :) For you, as a starting musician / businessman advertising is crucial. Basically you should have uploaded the album by yourself. Music, once recorded becomes "infinite goods". What you should strive to create is a crowd of fans. Once you are there you can sell the "scarce goods" like tickets to your concerts, CDs with your signature etc…, T-Shirts. Basically you should provide a reason to buy. So in order to become a successful artist you should: 1. First and most important: create quality music 2. Almost equally important: manage the business / build a fan base and offer them reasons to buy. YDI for starting just like that … YDI for doing what others tell you to and not thinking with your own head … YDI for not staying in school … PS: for all those grammar trolls out there: I don’t live in an English speaking country :))))

you can sue the site and them.

Oh let me tell you what. its ok to drop out of college to do music but its because you love it not because your friends likes them. all you want is fame you don't love music. alicia keys dropped out of colombia university so she could do music but she ain't stupid, she was a valedictorian at her high school. so yeah, listen to your heart, not other people. for the forum, sue them!

All of you that are criticizing the OP for dropping out of college really need to understand the situation: As stupid as he (obviously) is, he probably wasn't getting anything accomplished in college anyway... just taking up space and wasting precious resources there. So it actually is better for everyone that he gave up and left.

I am currently starting to break into the music industry myself, but I am also currently in school. Recording an album (in my case a mixtape) is difficult to balance with school, but not impossible. Sure dropping out frees up your time more, but you have to be pretty sure of yourself and your plan of action to go into music with no backup plan. And honestly, you're planning was pretty bad here. You made a CD expecting that people, including your friends, would all buy it just like that. Instead of going straight to selling a CD, you should've released a few songs, promoted yourself, gotten a strong fanbase, THEN sold a CD. You can't just go on blind faith. Yes it absolutely sucks that your friends did that, but even if they hadn't done it, friends alone couldn't have supported you. This is all on you because it was your choice to let them convince you to drop out. I would LOVE to become successful as a musician. I don't even care if I become famous, I just want to be successful enough to support myself. But I know that it's a hard gig, and I having an education won't hurt if I can't make it.

HAHA you're supposed to give your friends free copies you douche, YDI.

This is why you have to come up with a strategy to sell your CD. Also, I agree with everyone else who say OP is an idiot for dropping out of college. OP: Go back to school and make something of yourself, obvi you're not going to make it in the music biz.