How do you buy/steal your tunes???

[Boogus Epirus Aurelius]

I'm a huge, huge music buff. As a youngin' my folks always had the good old oldies playing in the background of my home; really fueled me for the years to come. As I got older, nearly all my pocket change went towards a new cd to add to my collection. Since then I've collected hundreds upon hundreds of albums. I love the sound and the novelty of cd's. It's nice to have a physical aspect to the music your listening to, not just an invisible file format containing music. It feels too artificial. Thoughts?

I think this is interesting too.

http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/17777619/the_death_of_high_fidelity/print

[Samus Aran]

Most of my music is ripped from my own CD collection, though I do some legal and illegal downloading too. The amount of legal music in my collection vastly outweighs the illegal stuff, though.

[YPrrrr]

I don't do illegal downloading... I lack the internet speed to do much downloading to begin with

[sans culottes]

Gimme an 'all of the above' option please.

I do a lot of formats. My favorite is CD, I enjoy having a physical copy of music. However, I only get like, one CD a month. I've probably spent about sixty bucks overall on iTunes downloads (I did that before I started pirating).

I torrent. However, I have a moral value that you should never steal from a band that actually needs your ten dollars.

Also, I have a collection of vinyls that used to be my dad's (and I also bought Rush's first album on vinyl last month, so that's the only vinyl that wasn't his), along with his cassette collection (I'll never buy cassettes in the future unless I find a good album for cheap, cassettes kinda suck).

oh and uh, here's loose statistics.

Total songs I have in MP3 (at the moment): 2051
Songs from CDs: About 350
Songs from iTunes downloads: about 70
The rest: pirated

tbh i feel really dirty when i pirate

[LINK2K9]

CDs and torrents. Whatever I liked that I downloaded illegally I'll buy on CD.

[sans culottes]

CDs and torrents. Whatever I liked that I downloaded illegally I'll buy on CD.

I can be like that sometimes. I like to be sure of what I buy so I listen to it first.

[LINK2K9]

I can be like that sometimes. I like to be sure of what I buy so I listen to it first.

Yeah, I don't want to end up buying an album I don't like and therefore ending up supporting that artist.

I've been working on that too, but I always tend to put off buying albums I already have on my computer in favor of new things whenever I go to the record store.

Eh, same here, which is why I usually order those CDs online. Half.com is awesome.

[sans culottes]

Yeah, I don't want to end up buying an album I don't like and therefore ending up supporting that artist.

That's a moment you're thankful a record company is getting most of it.

However, when it's an artist you support, that's when you're upset a record company is getting most of it.

[Boogus Epirus Aurelius]

I have this local hippe record joint that sells music at a laughably low price (probably high when he marked the prices). I tried buying a few super super hard to find albums off itunes but it didnt feel right. The only album I've ever illegally downloaded was an out of print called "z-rock hawaii" which retails for $500 plus, if you can find it.

[Daddy]

I usually torrent things, though I buy stuff from Amazon's MP3 service on occasion.  I'll probably buy an album tomorrow.

[Houdini]

I always buy CDs unless there's no way I can get a hard copy. I'd buy vinyl, too, but my turntable needs repairs.

[Boogus Epirus Aurelius]

You know, I noticed turntables are coming back to some extent. My old one just hit the fan.

[sans culottes]

You know, I noticed turntables are coming back to some extent. My old one just hit the fan.

i have a turntable myself.

retro = win.

[Boogus Epirus Aurelius]

Most definently. I'm considering getting it repaired instead of replaced. I've got it mounted in my room in a very specific way. I love the sound, even the crackles. It's a lot warmer.

[LINK2K9]

I'm very tempted to start buying records, but unfortunately that means going to the moldy, old used hobby store (or whatever it would be classified as).