QFT and yes it is.

Double Quote for Truth.

I've been working all my adult life... for minimum wage. If I had to buy music, I might afford.. 6 albums a year... roughly. Maybe 12. Maybe 24. I have thousands of albums on here. I couldn't possibly afford my music collection. That's why I suppose. Even if I got a good job and struck out to buy them all or some ****... I'd probably be an old man before I caught up

Triple Quote for truth.

Sorry, Conebone but I have a new sig.

:yeah:

I do like to buy used CDs. Found some gems in the local Electric Fetus.

i also download music I wouldn't be caught dead buying cos it reinforces my "uncle" image - The Eagles, Deep Purple, etc

Whahaha, beeeee youuuursseeeeelf.

I wanna look "hip" to youngsters - hey, I'm buying Emperor, Stereolab, Mastodon, Fleet Foxes

I still buy some CDs but mostly just download on iTunes legally. I've had one too many friends get busted buying illegally and have to pay a huge amount of money...

Thats weird. I have never known anyone personally who has ever been caught. You just gotta keep your seeding to a minimum when torrenting.

Source? Though I guess it wouldn't be too surprising considering some people do freak out when they are told what can happen when you download illegally.

A mix i suppose, I buy singles off of iTunes but albums wise I go to HMV or Play.com heck even Amazon do some really good deals and prices

There's just something about having a CD collection, I think it shows more about your personality and your tastes where as showing your friend you have 3000 songs on your iTunes or whatever doesn't say much, people usually download an album from a torrent site and just listen to one or two songs from that album, I hate that...

but I have a lot of respect who still buy Vinyls, something about Vinyls and Vinyl covers just makes me drool especially the Rubber Soul Vinyl.... sends shivers down my spine!

I think like a lot of us, if I have the money i will buy the album on cd, if I am broke and want an album I will just download it. That being said I have downloaded a few albums that i liked so much I went out and bought a hard copy

You might want to combine that with Torrentz if you want to die very soon :D.
Just sayin' ;).

Considering that the amount of money it would take to buy every album I own and will ever want to own is greater than the total amount of money ever offered to me by Nigerian princes in emails, I'm kind of forced to download. I have no moral justification for it but buying shirts and going to every show I can helps me sleep at night. Sometimes.

Don't forget about second hand :)

These days I mostly buy downloads in iTunes store. I do prefer having a physical CD but iTunes is way more convenient. I work all day on a computer so mostly listen in iTunes while I'm working. I also like being able to browse through the online store and follow links to new bands that I haven't come across. Found a lot of great music that way. Plus I usually don't have a lot of time to hang out in record stores these days. When I was young I could goof off and spend an entire day going around all the record stores in the city.

I just can't understand people paying money for a file when the CD costs the same.
You don't 'get' anything in your hands... I don't see the benefit of paying for a file when you can get it for free. I want to have what I pay for and I want to take it in my hands, open the wrapper, whatever. I would never ever pay for music. Especially not when it's compressed. I would think about a FLAC or so of an album I just can't find on a CD, but apart from that, paying for quality that isn't as good as it gets? No way.

The only times I've ever paid for an mp3 download was because for the exact reason that they weren't available on CD in the first place.

And because I couldn't find them free obviously.

Could you tell me, just so I can have a nice challenge, what music that was?
I really wonder if I am able to get it for free :D

One was an obscure 70s s/t debut album by a band called Parasites of the Western World. I have found it free online but it's only a really crappy scratchy vinyl rip.

The other was a Henry Rollins spoken word album which you could probably easily find now but it had just come out when I wanted it & was available on his website fairly cheap.

Haha, I know I'm evil when I say this, but I can't help but think;
Somebody must have bought it before you bought it... Sharing is caring!

I don't think it hurts to pay for a couple of the few thousand I download a year.

Wouldn't want people thinking I'm a tightwad.

Hahaha, allright then.
I think it's safe to say that I have sponsored the music industry an awful lot more than most people have. I don't feel guilty at all.

Do you have a record company to take away your money?
Because as far as I know 'famous' musicians with a label won't get a noticable amount of money for either downloads or CD's (or, in my case, vinyl records)

I personally prefer to physically own an album rather than to have it on an ipod or something. The only reason i do download some albums is because of the price, as well as convenience (some albums are hard to come buy in stores these days, or it takes an hour drive).

And if by download you mean illegally? I only do that if i don't respect the artist much, if i only like a single song on an album, or if they are dead (or if i don't have the money at the time). I like to respect the fact that music is how they make their living, and sales of their songs is part of it.

I don't understand why people would buy too much music anymore considering all the great free options there are to listen to free music online! I personally prefer Pandora but I recently came across this site that lists quite a few good ones, check it out: 10 Places to Listen to Free Music Online | Webupon

I mainly use youtube, grooveshark and myspace.
Reasons I buy music are
1. I want it myself. When they take the site down, it's gone.
2. Sound quality
3. I like collecting stuff :D

if i have money,i will buy my music
if not,sure is download!!!!!

if something's really good I still prefer to physically own it. I mainly download stuff by artists I'm going to see live....

Music downloads...
 

Is imposible to stop the music downloads, and many artist are finding different ways to distribute their music.
I buy CD's because i enjoy the album as a whole, the graphics the technics details, etc...

Manuel

I buy. CD's are what I'm into. I just prefer to have the physical copy, and I have too many CD's to extract on the computer with space being a big issue. I'm just worried for the time when artists stop using CD's (or vinyl) to distribute their music.

I buy CD's quite a bit compared to people I know, but not quite at the level of many on here (I own around 120 actual CD's). I will start buying even more when I get more money coming in, but at the moment, food is more important :)

I also download a sh*t ton, I mean, 300+ GB of music.

I prefer to own a CD, but I also download what I own because it is convenient to have it on an MP3.

i have in the past two months accumulated 3x the number of albums by downloading than I have accumulated on physical copies in my lifetime till now

Legal downloads or...?

not telling - the Man might be reading this

;)

Well, I legally download GB after GB... Yet no monetary issues occur :)

I buy legal music, always.

Manuel

People expends money in so many silly things...
I buy th CD's because i like to see the art, book, and all the recording and musicians information !