Do you download music? — Page 2

Aww, not even a refute? Tell me my LSAT classes have paid off for SOMETHING!

Good night feinstein9. And Addict.

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I use iTunes, it's my anti-drug.

The thing is, I rarely buy CDs anymore, so if the song isn't available on iTunes or I'm currently poorer than than the RIAA claims they're getting, I will use other methods.

Then there's people who have the occasional catchy song, but I refuse to spend money on their CD and support their stupidity and decadence and add to their album sales *cough Britney cough* but she's the rare exception.

Then there's my collection of oldies that you really can't even get on CDs anymore, except maybe in those Time-Life Collections. Most of them I first heard on my parents' records as a child, so unless someone is going to find an inexpensive way to transfer from vinyl to mp3, it's just easier this way. Some of the songs are so ubiquitous that it just doesn't seem like me dling Diana Ross and the Supremes is really hurting the recording industry.

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i download. i listen. i enjoy. and you can't make me feel guilty about it.

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I used to share and download a lot of live music -- Springsteen and Bon Jovi bootlegs and what not. No money was ever exchanged and its all unreleased materials that people have been swapping with one another for years, long before the internet. I've downloaded some other songs -- mostly stuff from one performer that I only like one song from and wouldn't buy a CD from anyway.

No rationalization, I know it's not good for the musicians and if they'd stop it, I'd have no problem with that and would either not have those songs or just wait until I caught 'em on the radio.

yes, illegally, but it mostly TV Theme Songs and Classical music.

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