How do you obtain your music?

(Only vote for an option if you often do it.)

  • Purchasing CD's/tapes/equivalent.

    Votes: 45 61.6%
  • Shoplifting CD's/etc.

    Votes: 3 4.1%
  • Legally downloading music.

    Votes: 15 20.5%
  • Illegally downloading music.

    Votes: 39 53.4%
  • Listening to music (and/or watching videos) on the Internet.

    Votes: 15 20.5%
  • Listening to the radio while in the car.

    Votes: 31 42.5%
  • Listening to the radio while not in the car.

    Votes: 21 28.8%
  • Going to concerts.

    Votes: 21 28.8%
  • I have live bands personally perform for me.

    Votes: 3 4.1%
  • Having my Martian slave bang a stick on different parts of my sexual harrasment panda, creating uniq

    Votes: 12 16.4%

  • Total voters
    73
Don't listen to music, so I voted other.
 
I buy CDs when I have the money, which is almost never, but this summer when I get a job I plan on buying more.

Right now I download using Soulseek. It has everything I need. I buy CDs even if I have the download copy, becasue the quality is perfect, plus I get all the album art.
 
Borrowing them from the library. Rotterdam has the biggest music library in Europe. Most of the time I borrow compilations so I get a lot of similar sounding trakcs which fit my taste.

Soulseek is a great p2p program:
http://www.slsknet.org/

Sometimes I buy records 2nd hand. They just cost about 2-4 euro. Discovered a lot of great music this way.
 
An interesting information would be the usual price of a cd in your country. In France, it's insanely expensive : From €15 to €25 (for double cds).

As a result, I don't buy any cds anymore except if I'm really fan of the Artist and I want to detain the "object" which is the official cd. That happened only once since September though. In the other case, I also buy old albums which came out in the 70's and which are also cheaper.

Anyway, current music is crap. Hip Hop has lost its genuine soul. R&B is just sound soup. There's only few French stuff I like a bit still, however, most of French new stuffs come from RealTV and it sucks too. (Am I bitter ? No, I'm not :mischief: ).
 
I don't care for music .
 
I borrow CD's from the library and copy them. My connection is too crappy and my mp3 player too old to download music. I have over 100 songs on my main hard drive, and over 400 on my second one. The second one I only have for music and some PC Games I play(not Civ). I don't play many Pc games, though, I just download free shareware games when I am really, really bored.
 
Originally posted by Syterion
I borrow CD's from the library and copy them. My connection is too crappy and my mp3 player too old to download music. I have over 100 songs on my main hard drive, and over 400 on my second one. The second one I only have for music and some PC Games I play(not Civ). I don't play many Pc games, though, I just download free shareware games when I am really, really bored.
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Originally posted by Syterion
I borrow CD's from the library and copy them. My connection is too crappy and my mp3 player too old to download music. I have over 100 songs on my main hard drive, and over 400 on my second one. The second one I only have for music and some PC Games I play(not Civ). I don't play many Pc games, though, I just download free shareware games when I am really, really bored.
If there was a way to contact the RIAA and give them your information I would.
 
Originally posted by h4ppy
If there was a way to contact the RIAA and give them your information I would.

Don't worry, I'm sure the RIAA has some streamlined system that you can turn in people you know with. They'll probably even give you a free CD or two.
 
I tend to get my music legally. Then again, I listen to music that tends to be hard to find, so I need to search online.
 
Anyways, the only music I have on my computer these days is music I have on CD, but would rather just listen to on my computer. I don't have any p2p systems, and am satisfied listening to all the Rolling Stones, Leonard Cohen, and Chili Peppers I can get.
 
Because he is breaking the law and criminals should be punished, severly.
 
You ever broken the law h4ppy?

I admit, it feel much better to only listen to music I have purchased these days though. My hardcore downloading went when Napster fell, and after that I just listened to my small but delicious collection of music.
 
I see no difference between people taping the radio, which was a common and legal practice when tapes were popular (and when radio wasn't horrible) and downloading music.
 
If there was a way to contact the RIAA and give them your information I would.

Calm down, man. I don't illegally download music. There are at least 5 people in this thread who admitted to that. Sobieski as well admitted to burning CD's from the library. There are actually 3 people who voted for shoplifting! I refer you to Cgannon's post. It is definitely not different from taping the radio. Besides, I buy Cd's as well, it's just when the CD I want is hard to find(read: old music), I get it from the library. I'm not one of the thousands of people who constantly download music. I actually donate my own money to the library, as well as old books.
 
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