How can I love music without getting in debt?
 

hi all

I really love music of all genres and styles, and I mean ALL styles. But I recently looked at my bank account balance to find I had spent way too much on music downloads and CDs. How can I still listen to great music from different genres without going bankrupt or going all illegal???

Regards

Famous

Just download music and never look back. Those artists don't give a Dick Van Dyke about it and the FBI won't come a'knockin at your door. If something really impresses you or if an artist if independent or on a small label then buy their stuff.

Move to the UK. Use Spotify.

Is this thread brought to you by teh 90s?

BTW I'm still paying off debt from buying too many CDs in the 90s and early 00s.

There was a time I'd buy eveything available. I'd purchase three or four albums weekly, back in the days when I had the funds to support my habit. I have to admit that I have spent thousands of dollars over the years, I had more music than I could possible imagine. Lps, 45s, cassettes, 8-tracks, even reel-to-reals, if your old enough to remember. But I'm finding that my collection was realitive small compared to other collectors. However, I recently moved and was forced to dramatically down size. I regreattable had to get rid of 90% of my collection. Now. I have to replenish my collection. Although I don't agree with downloading, It's the cheapness way to go along with buying used cds. The price, whatever it be, physical or online store, is not worth the price, then, if you add shipping to online stores, it even adds to the costs. I've been downloading singles and eventually finishing the album with used cds. In some cases, I downloaded the entire album, for, otherwise, an album that is out of print. And the price Amazon.com wants for a respective out of print cd is ridiculous. I'm not willing to dish out no thirty to a hundred dollars for a cd when I can purchase the download verson on itunes for $9.99.

why would you buy music when you can get it for free?

Here we just download music for free...Lol:laughing:

Pace yourself.

You may be surprised by what you find at the local Library.

Buy a vinyl record player. Go to your local thrift store (if you have Goodwill they work). Buy records for 79 cents each. They're not anything new, but you may find some timeless gems amoung them.

Buy used, and pace yourself.

Apparently my brother found "Reign in Blood" at a library once. Thought that was kind of funny.

Really? Just get it for free. I highly doubt all the artists in your library need the money.
My policy is...if the band is famous and rich, stopped making music, Pre-2000, or dead, than I just download it for free, with no guilt.

However, if it's an upcoming artist, I'll buy it, which is maye like once every 2 months.

If you like something, you should stop at nothing to get it.

Did you think libraries only had classical music or something?

I see the irony in it.

I don't really. I mean I doubt anyone finds it ironic or funny or whatever that they have Clive Barker books at the library. How is having a Slayer album any different?

It goes against the stereotypical kind of person I think of that goes to a library.

How so?

http://www.ovidlibrary.org/images/Librarian2.jpg

http://metalheadguys.info/wp-content...-metalhead.jpg

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Have you never been in a library or something? Or never met a Slayer fan?

I said stereotypical. Anyways relax bud, I was half joking.

I am relaxed. I just don't see it. If anything I think of the stereotypical library patron as being someone kind of on the young side.

It's not really the library goer, really. It's the whole "literary" attitude of the people running the library. IE. you'd be hard pressed to find a Slayer Album at Barnes, and Noble but you'd find ****loads of adult contemporary garbage, traditional chamber music, folky college pop, and some jazz.

I just always believed the purpose of a library was to showcase what was considered music of the cultural, and intellectual elite. I am NOT saying that they intelligent people don't listen to Slayer, I'm personally a massive Slayer fan, but just find it strange that it would get through the filters of people running libaries, assuming they can filter at all.

With that said, Reign In Blood is by far one of the most influencial metal albums, and with metal being an important genre in this day and age, I would consider it a cultural landmark when it comes to music. Personally believe it has a place in a library.

Even if, it probably was only there because somebody decided to donate it, and there was no descision making in the process, still slightly ironic if you consider the library lady attitude.

My Barnes and Nobel has rap albums. Go figure.

Well, rap can be linked to black culture though, and be argued as having a cultural identity. Which usually works well in the thinking of psuedointellects. As well as the fact it loosely has roots in beatnik poetry, and often deals with real life issues. Where as Slayer is pretty much entirely about mass violence, and death with absolutely no personal emotional connection to, or from the songwriter.

Albeit, I do know that at one time Barnes And Noble sold the computer game "Quake". Which has some cultural significance being the first ever full non-prerendered 3D videogame(or at least for FPSs), but still...

I don't think that's true. I clearly remember buying Meshuggah and Mastodon albums at Barnes & Noble so I think Slayer would be a pretty likely find as well. But why are you comparing Barnes & Noble with a public library anyway? It's apples and oranges. One is a retail store whose purpose is to stock whatever sells and one is a public institution dedicated to serving the community.

I think you have kind of a mistaken assumption there. The whole point of public libraries is that they're free and open to the public. In many ways they are the antithesis of cultural and intellectual elitism.

The bolded probably describes most of the things at any given public library.

I would still download. If I didn't have the internet, who knows what I'd be listening to.

1. Learn to spell properly.
2. Not all librarians are women.

Yes they are, there's a reason why they're called libarians not librarions!

Besides, picking at my sloppy spelling is weak. Considering how this is a rant on an internet forum, it should be accepted as a common informality.

:rofl: :laughing: :stupid:
Really?

I've seen a few male librarians.

Yes, but are they really men if they're spending their time playing with books rather than getting drunk bludgeoning other men over the head with bar stools?

...Yes.

They can't be both. Work the library during the day, get drunk at night.

And btw...not all men drink.

Gay men are still men.

Yes, but it's extremely homophobic to not give male librarians the right to be considered by their friends, and peers as women.

Before this thread gets hijacked too far here's a sample of CD's I currently have checked out of the Library.

Iggy & The Stooges - Raw Power
Sex Pistols - Never Mind The Bollocks
Moby Grape - '69
John Lennon - Rock 'N' Roll
Left Of The Dial: Dispatches From The '80's Underground
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Kicking Against The Pricks
Tom Petty - Wildflowers
Frank Zappa - Apostrophe(')
XTC - Mummer

Yes because who uses the internet anyway? Spelling doesn't matter. Spelling and grammar are for librarians!

Exactly, and they're a bunch of damn women!

A Zune pass is $15. Get on it.

You need to get your ass kicked by a male librarian!