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eternie:
I haven't downloaded for years, but I wanted some songs off an album I couldn't find anywhere. Online or off. Tis cheating but I was really needing that music.

I spend all my money that's not food/clothes/essentials on CD's or music-related goods. And seeing as I just got my trust fund, that's around £200 in the past fortnight alone.

In comparison, I don't think the music industry is losing any money through me.

amok:
most of my albums are downloaded purely because I find out about far more awesome bands than I can afford to buy CDs for. selfish, yeah. plus the fuckin' things are way overpriced in most stores

however I go to as many gigs as possible and I hear bands make more money from that than the meagre few pence they get paid for album sales, so that kinda soothes my conscience

Temperamental:
I used to buy CDs often, but I've decided that I'd rather use the money for things like concerts and T-shirts. If I download a couple of albums, I could afford to see a show I otherwise would not have gone to. So I've pretty much decided to go to every concert I like the band of and never purchase a CD again. Surprisingly, that ends up costing me more...concerts are damn expensive. But it's a hell of a lot more satisfying. I can get the CD for free and see the band's show, but I can't see the show for free and buy the CD.

Giantandre:
I thought alot about this thread last night when I went to the Explosions In The Sky show in Los Angeles (The were as expected; Awesome) ...

 How would I have ever heard about this band w/o file sharing...No Radio ever plays them...I'm not going to buy a 16 dollar CD because a critic tells me how great they are...I've been burned by that too many times...

   The way I found them was a friend gave me a copy of Godspeed You Black Emporer's F#A#oo.....I started loving that ....I wore that copy into the ground....started looking for other "post-rock" artists (I hate the term post rock) ---- Downloaded "The Earth is Not A Cold Dead Place"  and so on.....

Now I figured I did my part by Buying a ticket, a shirt for my brother, and a LP of The Earth....

Smaller band needsfile sharing to build an auidence ---- Big Bands only make .25 to a dollar a CD so they cant care that much......Its big record companies ...and screw them ....

JodyAnthony:
I downloaded the entire Mountain Goats discography. But that's only until I can find some of the albums. Alot of the albums you cant find anywhere though, so if I didn't download them, I never would of heard them.

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