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ScrambledGregs:
If I could afford to, I would buy everything legit.


I'm not that old (23) and I regularly buy new records from my local independent store. They're an awesome store. If I could buy everything on vinyl, I would.

I probably buy half the amount of albums I download, which is still a lot.

Ishotdanieljohnston:
Record stores are amongst my favourite places, and my almost maniacal addiction to buying from them partly stems from not wanting them to close down. My favourite, Greville St. records bitch everytime I come in about "the old days" when they'd have people queing up outside and how the internet has destroyed there business.

They had to let go all there employees and now it's just the owner and his best freind. Recently I've been buying four or five albums from there a week. They gave me a gift of a 30 dollar album the other week for spending over 4000 in there over the past 3 months. I'm not regretting it, but I'm going to be poor this summer because all my money has gone on albums and shows.

However, I do download, and feel like shit for doing it. I've been trying to cut back, but it's so tempting when you see an album you've been desperately seeking for an age just a click away on the mediafire thread. Though the labels CAN BE blood sucking dicks, they are the only thing keeping the industry alive along with many struggling artists.

I'm also amongst those gradually trying to replace the great albums I've downloaded, but there are so damn many of them it will take a long, lon time.

Edible:
The only, independant record store in my town that i know of basically only sells jazz, country etc. so they dont really have the music I look for, if there was an independant store that had what I wanted, I would llikely buy from it but for the moment the net is the only place I can find the stuff.

Periodically if they have one I will paypal a band I like 10 or 20 $ because I figure its more than they get anyway, and cuts out the middleman.

Kai:
I have a problem.

See, I love record stores. Adore them. I love having physical copies of albums. I love sending money to artists that I think are doing something great (and something that I hope to do myself someday as well).

My problem stems from the idea that whenever I am in a record store, I spend too much. if I have money, any amount, and I go in, all of it will be gone when I walk out. It's an issue. So much of the money I get ends up going into these shops even though I should probably buy something else or even *gasp* save it.

The records that I do purchase do not counteract the records that I download. At all. I download many more records than I purchase. But this isn't because I don't like to buy records. This is because I don't have a steady income at the moment.

You can probably assume I am not very good with money.

Misereatur:
I know your problam, Griffin. I live on a soldier's pay, which is about US$88 a month. The first thing I do when I get my paycheck? Spend it all on music. Enough to buy at least three records, five if I'm in a used records store. Ever since the tenth grade, while all of my friends worked to pay for their driver's license or for spending on booze, I worked so I could buy records and go to concerts.

Recently I've decided to give up on saving for the new amp and a new bridge for my Jazz Bass I desperately need and instead save for a decent record player because mine is broke. This means that I'll have to start buying only one record a month. I don't know how I'm going to deal with that. I'm lucky that my medical profile is really really low and I got a job that let me go home every day. If I was a combat soldier, while it's better then sitting in an office all day, I don't know how I'd survive without listening to records daily.

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