How Do Your Purchase Your Music?


How Do Your Purchase Your Music  

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  1. 1. How Do Your Purchase Your Music

    • I buy physical copies of albums
      44
    • I buy legally downloaded albums
      18
    • I pirate all my music
      70
    • Other
      13


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I've noticed a lot of discussion concerning digital music stores and I'm just wondering how many people still buy physical copies of albums.

I myself have around 50 vinyl, 20 tapes and 300 CD's. I prefer physical formats.

As far as CD's are concerned...

-You can re-rip them to future formats or a different format for whatever reason

-Compatible in many areas where an MP3 would not suffice (Driving in a rental car with just a CD player, friends car, using CD players at work etc)

-Liner notes and packaging are nice to look at

-You can rip it, burn it, stomp it to pieces...whatever. You own it, fewer strings attatched.

-It's fun watching your collection grow in size

-Not susceptible to hard drive crashes etc.

There are drawbacks of course, but overall I don't see myself switching to digital music stores anytime soon. Backing up all the music I have is still kind of impractical, I like being able to re-rip my stuff whenever I want to whichever format I desire and so on.

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I buy the majority of my cds legally except for ones that are rare. Then i rip to the hard drive to listen to whenever.

I did however the other day use iTunes for the first time to buy some tracks i couldn't get the CD of. I didn't consider it rare so i paid for it.

I do however download music to give it a try, if i like it i'll buy the cd and if i don't i'll delete it. I know it is wrong but it saves me money.

My favourite bands i will go out and buy their CD straight away cause i have confidence that it will be good.

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I buy CDs but try to avoid things that have Sony's rootkit virus on them or other forms of malware. I want them ripped to my computer and then onto my iRiver. I don't want viral computer meltdown corruption just because Sony hires criminal pirate hackers to implement its anti-copying programme. :rolleyes:

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Yeah, I tend to avoid any CD that mentions copy protection on it. I don't want to support it.

I rip my CD's to my computer for my iRiver as well. I take that with me on walks, in the car etc. I'll download stuff from non-legal sources and listen to it, and if I like the band then I keep an eye out for their material in stores. I always purchase music legally from bands I've downloaded and enjoyed.

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I don't listen to music much, but I've purchased CDs and used Napster before. I'd much rather take my chances with any copy protection there might be on the CD instead of using something like Napster, which is so restrictive that I end up losing a bunch of tracks after multiple reinstalls. They've only just recently implemented a deactivation system like iTunes'.

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You missed an option ... "I live in Canada or France where downloading music is LEGAL" ...

So I chose "Other" because, in Canada, downloading music is legal.

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mostly all my music is legally brought albums.. i do pirate some of my music sometimes just to kinda get a preview before i buy.

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You missed an option ... "I live inCanada> orFrance> where downloading music is LEGAL" ...

So I chose "Other" because, in Canada, downloading music is legal.

No it isn't...you are allowed to "download" music but uploading is illegal...

Now you can't download without uploading a single KB now can you? :rolleyes::

and just for the record...I buy my music off iTune

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I'm a dance addict, so I buy most of my tracks on vinyl :) Great fun to walk into a record shop and pick out various records and just listen to them there and then :D

Coffeee

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I pirate the majority of my music (yarr!). But sometimes I'll pick up compilation albums (mostly the Punk-O-Rama and Warped Tour comps) so I can listen to some new bands I may not have heard before.

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