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Points: 1413 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 24 2012 at 10:55

Originally posted by Drew Drew wrote:

when I download I use Itunes or amazon for mp3's


That's rare though- I still like buying CD's for some reason

Well, I can think of a few good reasons for choosing CD's over mp3's

(1) The music on CD's is not compressed ... I think

(2) CD's often come with some booklets and album art to look at.

(3) You can buy thousands CD titles for pennies at your local flea market, whereas for an mp3 album you'll be asked to pay at least 6-7 bucks, but could be twice as much on Amazon. 

(4) You can't accidentally delete, damage or lose data from a CD, unless you do something foolish to it. At the same time, my lady wife had accumulated a gigabyte or two worth of iTunes songs on her Mac when the hard drive quit. Data recovery guys said they could try for $300.00 and "see how it goes". Never again! 

 
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Using my psychic powers I find all the rare and hard to find stuff and download it directly into my mind. Tongue

I've only actually paid for three downloads.  The first was King Of The Mountain which came out before Aerial was officially released.  The second was Bass Communion vs. Muslimgauze EP, because it was only available for pay that way.  The last was the Porcupine Tree Futility EP for the same reason.  Both of those I made hard copies of with CD booklets I printed out.  So I've used itunes, Amazon, and the Burning Shed site, respectively.  No special software required.  For finding the music, any browser and a little persistence will do.


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Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened...
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Originally posted by smartpatrol smartpatrol wrote:

Originally posted by Drew Drew wrote:

when I download I use Itunes or amazon for mp3's

That's rare though- I still like buying CD's
 
Oh, and a few on bandcamp and a few on Souncloud
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Points: 14169 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 09 2012 at 03:35
Originally posted by Failcore Failcore wrote:

I hold prog musicians hostage and make them play music for me while I fap furiously.


EDIT: Sorry, I'm in a weird mood, haha
 
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Points: 14169 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 09 2012 at 03:34
Originally posted by Drew Drew wrote:

when I download I use Itunes or amazon for mp3's

That's rare though- I still like buying CD's
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I hold prog musicians hostage and make them play music for me while I fap furiously.


EDIT: Sorry, I'm in a weird mood, haha


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I've only bought from Amazon and iTunes
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95% Amazon, 5% Bandcamp. I use Spotify to listen as well.
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Itunes, Bandcamp, Amazon sometimes, any other ways the band offers to download through.

Bandcamp is the future though. Honest. A legal way for bands to give their music for free. That's great honestly. So much music is pirated anyway, by giving the buyer a chance to donate, he might actually pay something, even minimal. 

Also Recommended Records shopt (rermegacorp.com) offers free shipping and has a f**king amazing inventory. So when I feel the urge to buy something physical many times it's from there.
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Originally posted by Dean Dean wrote:

Stern Smile Let's ensure this thread stays on the right side of legal please.
 
I use internet explorer and the band's websites.
 
I like to break into record stores. Wink
http://pseudosentai.bandcamp.com/



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Originally posted by sagichim sagichim wrote:


It makes me wonder how would my cd wall would look like if i was rich?!!


I don't know about you, but if I was rich, I wouldn't have a CD wall, I'd have a CD vault.
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I like buying cd's too but i can never keep up with the amount of albums i'm interested in, so i have to download what i can.

It makes me wonder how would my cd wall would look like if i was rich?!!
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Points: 10964 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 07 2012 at 12:38
In the rare case that I buy digital music, it's either from iTunes or Amazon.
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Points: 8667 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 07 2012 at 12:26
In the rare case that I buy digital music, it's either from iTunes or it's from Bandcamp
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Points: 10964 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 07 2012 at 11:24
Originally posted by Catcher10 Catcher10 wrote:

 'raff
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Points: 12600 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 07 2012 at 11:13
when I download I use Itunes or amazon for mp3's

That's rare though- I still like buying CD's for some reason



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Points: 17845 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 07 2012 at 10:18

^ U so funny I foogot to 'raff
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