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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

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.

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

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 :3

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

Quote from: LINK2K9 on February 26, 2008, 08:25:33 PM
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.

Quote from: Co-Z on February 26, 2008, 08:38:10 PM
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. >.<

Quote from: steal on February 26, 2008, 08:35:10 PM
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. n_u

Quote from: LINK2K9 on February 26, 2008, 08:40:16 PM
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.

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.

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

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.

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

Quote from: Boognish on February 27, 2008, 06:50:36 PM
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.

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.

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).

Quote from: LINK2K9 on February 28, 2008, 09:10:19 PM
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.

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

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.

Quote from: :atomsk: on April 03, 2008, 07:18:54 AM
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.

Nah, just buy the cd.

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.

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