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Originally Posted by ricco87 /img/forum/go_quote.gif
how do you guys afford? Where do you get your CD's? I'm guessing you all spend between £5-10 (sorry $10-20) on an average CD album? If I bought all the albums I wanted I would probably still only have about 500 and be multiple thousands of £/$ in debt!
What's everyone's view to downloading these days? i use it to check out bands before I buy the album. Obviously for the quality I wouldn't use MP3's for any propper listening other than to trial
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Well, I'm too busy with my work for pop culture, so I don't have cable. That's easily an extra 4 CDs a month, and that's just the beginning.
My career is in the music industry, so that also helps in prioritizing things.
I get my CDs almost always locally. The Downtown Music Gallery (downtownmusicgallery.com) is where I get all of my avant-garde classical, world, and improvisation CDs. Other Music (othermusic.com) is where I get my rock and pop CDs. I get a lot of my records from Jazz Record Center, the dollar bins of record stores, and all sorts of estate sales, record fairs, and other such things. All of these things are in the New York City (Manhattan) area. I only buy online when I have to (for extra rare things).
If all of the music you would ever want amounts to only 500 CDs, then you're not doing something right. Expand your mind a bit and explore other musical ventures - believe me, music is a continuous exploration, and never ends.
Downloading music illegally through P2P programs is extremely immoral and... illegal. I don't participate in it. I know how much money even somebody like myself loses from online downloading. Yes, the system is broken, is which is why so many consumers turn to downloading, but this doesn't give an excuse. Some people like myself are trying to really fix the industry and make it worthwhile to buy music again, but this illegal downloading will only hurt our chances of this ever happening. But again, how can you blame somebody when the only alternatives are to buy ****ty quality lossy files, with a not-so-great selection?
If the musician ultimately receives money from somebody as a result of them downloading (legally or illegally) then I guess I'm happy. My record label returns the majority percentage of earnings to the artist(s), so it works out for us. But for people on totalitarian major labels, it really screws them. Then again, they're probably on a major label for a reason, and may not deserve that money if the industry were a truly free-market enterprise where competition was encouraged and actually possible.
I don't really believe people who say that they download only for trial. So, what, you delete the files from your computer when you're finished "trying" the music out? You never listen to it again, even if you like it? You buy EVERY SINGLE ALBUM/SONG that you ever download illegally? I have high doubts about this.