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casull:
I was thinking about buying Wold's Screech Owl and Baroness's Red purely because I couldn't find 'em, but then somebody gave me a waffles invite at a party the day before Christmas Free Leech hit, and now I have every hard-to-get album I have wanted in the last few months.  :lol:

Basically, I steal the music then buy a shirt or go to a show if I really like it. If the band/artist is small-time enough that a fan letter might mean something, I usually write them a letter telling them why I enjoy their music and how cool they are.

KharBevNor:
I barely ever buy music. I don't know of any record stores I can get to easily except HMV. If I did, I probably would. Maybe. There's the little problem of finding anything I actually like of course. Most record stores in the south of the UK are normally clean out of Nachtfalke records.

Or maybe not. CD's cost too much fucking money, they're bulky, they're inconvenient and I often as not end up breaking them.

mfpole:
I think the music I've downloaded has eclipsed the music I've bought recently. Being in high school, I don't have time for a steady job around my work and sports, so I download alot of stuff.

Physical copies of records and CD's are better than just those .rar files but I don't think I could ever reach the point where I'll legally own everything I have so far. Record stores are awesome but usually I won't pick up something I've already downloaded unless its some classic record that I want the vinyl for or some album I've been playing the shit out of so I have a real copy. Records stores for me are another way to find music in addition to downloading. That sounds backwards, but that's how it works for me. I'm still somewhat reliant on CD's though because I avoid Ipod's (too afraid I'll lose it).

I'm in a pretty good spot though, to put it one way, my dad's favorite band is Gang of Four. So he'll take me to a record store for my birthday (going to Newbury Comics in Boston is becoming a tradition) and I'll go crazy there.

On a related note, I got paid 20$ for my band's gig on Sunday and I immediately spent it on a Les Savy Fav 7" and a Chavez compilation, so yeah go me!

Hat:

--- Quote from: KharBevNor on 28 Dec 2007, 20:20 --- CD's cost too much fucking money, they're bulky, they're inconvenient and I often as not end up breaking them.

--- End quote ---

I will never figure out what you people are doing to your CDs to render them such a flimsy and unusable format.

monkandmovies13:
I buy Cds. Not on iTunes, but I go to stores and buy hard copies. All my friends make fun of me for it and don't understand it, but the way I see it, the few extra bucks you pay for an actual CD as opposed to one on iTunes aren't just for the music, but you're also paying for the artwork, liner notes, etc. I also just recently got a turntable, so I'm buying a lot of vinyl now as well. I love small record stores...I love sorting through the stacks of vinyl and seeing what everyone else is buying and hearing what they're talking about music-wise. Just before I got my turntable and I was convincing my mom to buy me one, I spent literally an hour and a half in there, looking at and sorting through the stacks of records. I'm pretty sure the people there think I'm insane, but it's so much fun. I'll be very sad when all my favorite record stores close down. They're such happy, wonderful places.

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