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Do you buy music?
est:
--- Quote from: zerodrone on 28 Dec 2007, 21:54 ---I think that one appreciates music more if one doesn't have 9,000 mp3s, but rather a collection of albums, all of which were purchased, listened to and considered rather than just downloaded on a whim.
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I can agree with this. I upgraded my hardware a while back and with that I reformatted, reinstalled, etc. I only pulled across the mp3s I was liking at the time and as a result I found I actually listened to more music. I am guessing it was because less choice translated to less sifting through crap to get to what I felt like listening to. As a result instead of about 80gb of music and growing I now try to keep it under 10.
The way I am doing this relates back to the original question. I am someone who has pirated basically everything in the past. I am slowly coming to realise though that I am in the position where this is totally inexcusable and am working toward stopping that. However, I am not the kind of person who likes poking about in music stores, buying things on a whim and seeing if I like it. Instead I am taking the following approach: Download things that you might be interested in. Give it a month to sink in, then if you like it buy it from your favourite music store to encourage them to stock more of that kind of music. If not, delete it. I am currently attempting to catch up with purchasing cds and such for things I already have and know I like.
That said, though. I have about 50 cds on my desk and about 250 more in a container in my spare room, so I guess I have been buying cds in the past, just not everything I've been downloading. If I had the money right now I could probably go out and buy another 25-30 cds and still not be totally in the clear, so I have a bit of work ahead of me.
E. Spaceman:
There are not very many decent record shops near here, sadly. As a result i don't really buy that much music. When i do find one though, i often spend too much money on it! I have lately been more discriminating about downloading stuff and as a result i enjoy things more.
Shadows Collide:
In answer to the question... as much as an unemployed, somewhat privileged 18 year-old who doesn't have a large sum of money inherited to him can (cough- ishotdanieljohnston - cough)
Statik:
Id like to buy everything I have acquired illegally, and I slowly work on it. For important (to me) new releases, such as Clutch - Beale Street, I go to a local store (non big electronics store, although, I have to say, after working for best buy, they do get some surprisingly hard to find metal releases..) anyway, big new release, I will very RARELY go in to purchase, say, the new Clutch album and not come out with 2-4 more CDs of stuff I have downloaded.
I buy them as I have spare money to spend on them.
HOWEVER, there is a problem, the vast majority of what I listen to (outside of some underground hip hop and rap) doesnt come from this country. And while I will purchase albums by bands who release here, for some bands, Im not spending $25-$30 on a SINGLE CD just because it wasn't officially released here. A lot of the metal I listen to just does not exist in this country outside of insanely overpriced imports. Additionally, I wouldnt know of many of the bands if it werent for things like slsk. So its kind of a double edged sword, I get exposure to all these great bands, but I cannot really afford to "support" them in the sense of buying their albums. For the price of ONE imported CD from Russia, or Germany, or wherever, I can buy three CDs of bands who do tour here.
I could have a whole discussion about the moral issues with MP3s, but I would assume that the subject has been just as beaten here as everywhere else on the net. Everyone by this point probably has their opinion on it, and no one is going to change peoples minds anymore.
Johnny C:
--- Quote from: est on 29 Dec 2007, 19:13 ---
--- Quote from: zerodrone on 28 Dec 2007, 21:54 ---I think that one appreciates music more if one doesn't have 9,000 mp3s, but rather a collection of albums, all of which were purchased, listened to and considered rather than just downloaded on a whim.
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I can agree with this.
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I definitely agree with the sentiment behind it, which is that having a hard drive full of music doesn't mean that you are actually any more knowledgeable or passionate about music.
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