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Do you buy music?
Hat:
I agree with this, more or less. Even sound quality issues and equipment issues aside, I find its a much more clearly defined leisure activity when I listen to a CD. I listen to MP3s on my computer or on an MP3 player, typically used when I am doing work/killing time on the internet or just travelling from A to B. I mostly download albums by bands I haven't heard, listen to enough of their stuff to make a fair assessment if it would be worthwhile to add them to my "list of bands to look for albums for" when album shopping, and thats that. Honestly, there are huge swathes of my MP3 collection from Oink that I haven't even given more than one listen to yet, or sometimes I Get a few tracks in and decide I'm not in the mood for it, whereas with a CD I'm more likely to give it a shot all the way through for some reason. I guess I am just lazy?
mfpole:
Thinking about that, it's a pretty legit point. I rememeber when I was in 7th grade and the 10 or so CD's I personally owned would sit alphabetized in a rack, with the CD sitting in the perfect alignment. But I guess now with downloading, tastes just become so much more eclectic and iTunes libraries just get so much bigger, without the physical copy some of the non music related emotions/feelings/sensations get lost.
Kyros:
If there actually WAS a Record store that sold music that I wanted at a fair price I'd shop there. There isn't though, so when I do buy an album it's either on Itunes or the new awesome Amazon mp3 store.
Johnny C:
Part of the thing is that buying records costs quite a bit of money, and it's money that I don't generally have.
Today I had a gift certificate, plus it was a Boxing Week sale at the local independent record store, so I bought four new records. Next paycheck or so I want to put in a mail-order to Dischord in order to get the Fugazi records I don't have.
The fact is, though, that I don't buy a whole lot of music because I get a paycheck and I kind of want to go out and do things with friends and buy other stuff and I have to pay for gas and I have to get lunch at university and since I'm working a shitty job that apparently doesn't even pay as much as it used to (I found this out tonight and I was not pleased) I manage to buy maybe two albums a month.
Ocarina654:
Like many people here I don't have a lot of money to spend on music.
The fact that there isn't an independent record store anywhere near here. There used to be one less than a mile from my house, and I bought both CDs and Vinyls (even before I had a turntable) from there when it was around. But since I hardly had any money it was somewhere around one CD every few months. Now its gone and the closest record stores are quite far away and hardly worth the time to go for one or two records.
Also, while that store was open I was mostly into Metal of the Power and Progressive genres, and they didn't carry any Blind Guardian, Symphony X, or whatever else, so most of my music was purchased online.
Since its been around I've bought my Therion music from their online store, though, so I directly support the band.
I quite dislike buying albums in digital formats, like from iTunes. You miss out on so much when you buy digital music, like art, liner notes, sound quality, and the freedom to put that music on whatever MP3 player you want with little hassle.
Why buy digital when that's always included with a CD (as far as you have a computer with a CD drive, something no one buying digitally lacks).
So yeah, I buy when I can, but mostly I download. I wish I didn't download as much, but at the same time I like the music I keep (and I do delete what I don't like/listen to) enough to keep getting more without paying.
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