Original or copied?

I don't copy any CDs or get them copied. I do download rather a lot, mostly stuff that isn't available to buy (I don't mean out of print, I mean unreleased), but some illegally. The illegal stuff I'm slowly buying despite eating myself into student debt, and once I have money I'll spend as much as I don't spend on living and musical equipment on CDs, so I don't feel too bad about it

It's hard for me to get good songs with file sharing anyway.

I have max. 10 fileshared songs in my iTunes list. And another 10 from this site when you could still download songs.

I try to get the albums of those downloaded songs. I never burn CD's and I always use self-bought CD's.kthxbai

    I will admit that I have gotten a lot of music through file sharing, but I realized that it wasn't sound on a Karmic level. I have since been replacing it by legal means. I don't think it is so bad to burn things for preview purposes. I have a friend that is into prog, but he is a lot younger than I. He burns newer music for me, and I have introduced him to the classics. We go out and buy the ones we like. I also still use file sharing for things I have no clue about. It helps with things that are hard to find. If I like it, and I can't find it in a store, it will be on the web somewhere. I am expecting my copy of "Storia di un Minuto" any day now.

Sacred 22 wrote: The originals of course. The music business is one tough road to travel. The artists source of income comes from album sales. Remember that. No money, no prog.   I do love the ability to put mixed prog discs together and that to me is the real bonus of burning discs.

I paid my dues to the music industry (bought around 7000 records , roughly half new, the other half used) and got rid of many records I did not like in order to finance new acquisitions (and save shelf space) .

Edited by darren - June 02 2006 at 02:36

The only stuff I download is stuff that is not comercially available. Even so, I rarely download. I do have a few copies that friends have made for me from their albums and I will be replacing several of them when I find the real discs. But like most everyone on this thread I just prefer to have the real thing.

Tony Fisher wrote: My attitude is simple. You can't burn vinyl (well, not in the copying sense).

Well, you can. I have hundreds of albums that are all in plastic sleeves and well-cared for, but I have ripped most of them to mp3 just so I can listen to some of them at work, in the car,, etc. In some ways that's how I kind of rediscovered a lot of those old 70s albums that I hardly ever played any more since I'm so rarely at home. I have hundreds of cassettes from the 80s and I've ripped some of those too, but they don't sound nearly as good.

For the past ten years or so I've bought CDs. My biggest problem isn't having to pay for them, it's finding the ones I want. Usually end up having to order off the web since there aren't any good record stores anywhere anymore.    
    
BTW - Wiz, that Grace Slick pic is too hot!

Edited by ClemofNazareth - June 01 2006 at 22:23

BTW, I used to buy everything from Amazon, but I am now officially going to eBay, at least for the rarer stuff (such as, Italian Prog, Krautrock, and even VdGG). Paying $17-22 for a CD is insanity!

Am I hurting the artists if I buy used vinyl LPs instead of buying the CD from amazon?