legal downloads how much would you pay ?

"I refuse to listen or respect downloaded music"
Why? Don't want to play it on computer (you can burn it on CD), or... well, It's nice to have CD:s with nice images and it's not immaterial, but every CD isn't good-looking - and it's not so healthy for environment.

I'll download if it's not on CD, of course. The music is the most important thing! You stupid people.

Ps. PDFs suck.

But it's not that easy to get "album art" off on line (from web to you: ) ). Really, there's no good enoguh pics. Wich is maybe he largest problem. And it's not so easy to watch them on computer, or maybe it just feels like it.

CD's aren't really all that bad for the environment. I mean come on, how much is really taken up by your cd collection? You probably waste more in milk jugs or grocery bags in a month or two than your entire lifetime collection of cds. Furthermore, everytime you want to play a downloaded piece of music, you have to turn on your 400 watt computer instead of a slightly more energy efficient stereo. Power consumption is pollution too.

MikeEnRegalia wrote: ^ Ok, I see your point. But to me it seems kind of pointless to buy a compact disc and the jewel case when all that matters to me is the music and the booklet. And even when I don't have a CD anymore I could still listen to the music on my portable player - no computer necessary.

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The reason I download is cause I dont want to pay...having said that, I mostly buy albums, I dont download them, I only do it with the ones I cant find or when they are too expensieve

^ so you either buy the "real" album or download an illegal copy? 

^ on eMusic.com the price is much lower ... but it depends on the subscription model. Currently I pay 18 EUR each month and can download 65 tracks. That's about 28 Cent per track - which is a real bargain for albums with few tracks, and a bit pricey for albums with many tracks. On average albums have 10 tracks, which means 2,80 EUR per album.

Edited by MikeEnRegalia - February 18 2007 at 10:33

^ ok, if you have the money ... suit yourself.

As a side discussion, have you folks noticed that, for the most part, customers of  most of the legal download sites (Itunes, Puretracks, et al) don't seem to mind the lower quality ? Surprising considering that the "superior" sound quality of CDs were a big selling point in the beginning. These would have been 16 bit, then they started coming out with the 20 & 24 bit remasters. Now you get MP3s at 128mb for the most part.
Just to tell you how we sometimes delude ourselves as to what our ears actually hear, let me tell you a little secret. If you've bought one of those remastered CDs, & then burnt yourself a copy so you could sell or trade the original back, think about this - unless you have a very recent CD burning software (ex. Nero 7), you're burning your blank cd at 16 bit. I just noticed this after I'd had a look at the new Nero 7. THing is though, I never would have known the difference, & I bought tons of CDs, then the remastered copies of these same albums, then burnt them & traded them.
Just to say that past a certain sonic point, there's a limited "market" for audiophile quality releases.

pantacruelgruel wrote: As a side discussion, have you folks noticed that, for the most part, customers of  most of the legal download sites (Itunes, Puretracks, et al) don't seem to mind the lower quality ? Surprising considering that the "superior" sound quality of CDs were a big selling point in the beginning. These would have been 16 bit, then they started coming out with the 20 & 24 bit remasters. Now you get MP3s at 128mb for the most part.

Sorry, but that's not true at all. On eMusic you get variable bitrate mp3s that average well above 200kbps for the most part - and on Napster you get 192kbps WMA.