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Jackie Blue:
Be honest, now.

The only large, independant record store in town is closing one of its two stores to consolidate, because of lagging sales.  This is the only store in town with an "Independant" section, the only place to buy new albums on vinyl.

One of the main given reasons is, literally and verbatim, "College kids don't shop at our store anymore."

So, are you part of the problem?  Do you download amazing albums from the Mediafire thread and then NOT actually buy the album?  Are you a music leech or do you vote with your wallets to keep good musicians out of the poorhouse and making more good music for you to listen to?  If you have a local used/new store, do you shop there, even though you can go on Amazon and feed the corporate whoremachine because a used disc on there might be a couple dollars cheaper?

Do you buy new albums from Amazon instead of directly from the label, which is almost always cheaper anyway?

Katherine:
I buy music directly from iTunes whenever possible.  I am impatient and want my music delivered electronically, immediately.  Plus, its better for the environment and stuff...

Jackie Blue:
So you find absolutely no joy in browsing a used/new record store and stumbling across new or weird things?  Legitimate question, because it has been brought to my attention that there are people under the age of 23 or so who have literally never set foot in a record store.

I'm old.   :-(

thermodynamics:
i haven't bought music in a long, long time. other than old vinyl, that is. i buy at least 5 records a week. but new music, cds, etc, i haven't paid for in over a year. i have torrents for that jazz.

i play music and my band has cds. no one wants to pay for music anymore. we sell maybe 1 or 2 cds per show. tops. i hate iTunes GUI so i don't have that to get music with, and - honestly - most music isn't worth buying to me, but i am sort of pretentious like that. all perpetuating the problem and what not.

Thrillho:
I buy music on at least a weekly basis. My ambition is to legally own everything I have illegally already, and I've stopped downloading.

Frankly I think the people who think they have a moral high ground because they download instead of buying records are dickheads. Yeah sure, record labels are dicks and they take too much money out of the CDs instead of giving it to the artists. But I'm willing to bet - and I know there are plenty of exceptions to this rule, bands who freely encourage downloading instead - that for most struggling artists, an extra 5p in their pocket from each CD you buy is better than, oh I don't know, nothing?

But hey, at least you have some semblance of a 'belief' about it. I'd rather some misguided notion or morality than the people who just download because they can't be bothered to buy CDs or 'only buy things they like' (THEN DELETE WHAT YOU DON'T LIKE) or are just pricks or one or more or all of the above.

So yes, I buy records, and yes I love to just go into a record store and browse.

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