How do you buy/steal your tunes???

[sans culottes]

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).

i once bought one from half-assed books.

[Boogus Epirus Aurelius]

I scour flea markets sometimes. There's usually some old codger selling hundreds of them.

[:atomsk:]

I mostly download it illegally, but if it's an artist i really like, I'll buy the CD or song i want from iTunes.

[Daddy]

I mostly download it illegally, but if it's an artist i really like, I'll buy the CD or song i want from iTunes.

Use Amazon's MP3 service; it's cheaper and DRM free.

[Boogus Epirus Aurelius]

Nah, just buy the cd.

[Snorkel]

I too am a connoisseur of sound, although my feelings when it comes to purchasing it are very political... I suppose of all the music I've ever acquired, the majority of it has been illegally downloaded. However, I'm very investigative when it comes to buying music -- labels, distributors, etc. There's a lot of distributors and labels I blacklist because of association with trade groups like the RIAA, who are necessarily destroying music as anything but a profit machine.

I always buy local and indie (indie label, not genre) on vinyl where possible, and usually on iTunes if there's no vinyl.

I always make a point of attending concerts of bands I like, not only because it's fun to see music live, but because bands actually profit directly from shows rather than splitting proceeds with different corporate entities.

[FullmetalGanon]

Limewire mostly. But I get my mixtapes from a site.