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forum's stance on sharing music?

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Trollstormur:
If I bought every album I've ever downloaded and listened to once, I'd be thousands of dollars in debt.

Butt_Munki:
I think like everyone, I've downloaded before I bought. But the thing with living in Australia is that you're limited to what either Sanity/Trax or your local (and groovy) Ye Olde CD Shoppe sells and imports- and there are NO indie CDs. I generally buy my CD's online, to get what I want, but it's an expensive habit. Being a bum, I use this to rationalise the fact I download mp3's.

However, now, there's a TONNE of sites dedicated to providing free mp3's legally, and many are indie artists. I don't think you can get much better than that. So now I only limit myself to those sites. No more KaZaa Lite for me. :D

AdamIsConceited:
What I'm wondering is about sites like Napster/Yahoo that let you get as many songs as you want for $5 a month.  Tell me how that's benefiting the particular artists if you're not buying it from them?  Do those sites give money to the record companies or what?  I haven't looked into it enough...

Anyway, I have well over 5 thousand songs on my computer.  I'd say only about 400 are actual songs that I've purchased/ripped from a cd that I own.  If I like an artist enough I'll get the cd/merchandise to support them.

lastclearchance:
I have 20 GB of music, 75% of which is out of print, available online, or purchased. Within a month it should be more like 80%. I'm just too broke right this second.

Of course, most of the music that I don't own I've gotten from mp3 blogs and just haven't listened enough to decide if I want to buy or delete yet.

I mean, it seems like we're all along those lines. I mean, I spend most of my non-food, non-gasoline money on music.

But it occurs to me now that the artists most people feel least concerned about stealing are those through whose album sales major labels make the most money. So I guess that partially accounts for the disparity between reality and the RIAA's perception thereof.

noirony:
Yup. I think downloading is an awesome way to sample music and find the bands that you really like, bands that you wouldn't have heard of otherwise. I always buy records when I really enjoy the band and if I have spare cash.

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