[ellisos020]

I've been trying to find a way to easily (and cheaply

) get a variety of music to take with me? I was thinking of maybe just making cassete tapes of radio stations? Recording those shoutcast things off the internet? Any other ideas? (to the mods: if this isn't appropriate for the forum I apologize, please go ahead and delete it)

 

[elipsis]

Legally, none of those things you suggested are really too appropriate to be discussing here.

What you CAN do legally, is go to mp3.com or a like-minded site where the artists give away their mp3s. Download and burn to CD, or send out the lineout of your soundcard to a tape deck. You won't find anything you hear on the radio, but there can be some decent undiscovered music on there.

Alternately, find the bargain bin of your local second-hand CD store, and get digging.

 

[SBomm]

Try the Library!

 

[Joe Bloggs]

What, it's illegal to record tapes off the radio?

!

 

[elipsis]

Yes, it is!

The radio stations pay a license fee to broadcast the songs. Unfortunately, that doesn't mean you can just tape them and listen whenever you want. They're still copyrighted, just licensed for broadcast.

Time-shifting of television with a VCR has been ruled legitimate in US courts. AFAIK, radio is a different story.