Downloading Vs. Buying used

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Oh no...... It's a 'part of the death knell of the music business' that people can choose the songs they want to buy?

What a load of horse shit. Like I said, put out an album worth buying and people will but it. Not a collection of songs with one or two good ones and a bunch of filler to make up the rest.

The music industry has always been a seller's market. I can remeraber for years being overcharged for CRAB. Seeing singles released in loaRAB of different formats all with different tracks so you had to spend about the price of a whole album just to get 3 or 4 new songs you didn't have on B sides.

Now it's not, now it's a buyers market. So either adapt to it or fuck off
 
I concur with that. I'm slightly different to you in that I do download stuff to burn to CD - just a modern version of the old blank cassette LP taped off a mate. Of course the beauty now is that I'm not limited to what mates own but can blag the stuff off people I don't even now. However, as a record collector (if you like) that would never be my sole (or even main) source of music. So I use it to fill in gaps in my collection. These are LPs that would only make it onto "the list" of stuff I might pick up later when/if I get around to them. In the event that I did and bought them, then they take the place of other stuff I would have bought instead.

But the whole thing of this extra consumption is it fires my love of music and keeps me in the game. Prior to torrents I had a few spells where I stopped buying music pretty much entirely. Since them my buying has stayed at a really high level. I would suggest that I'm fairly typical.
 
Actually I'm not a "record collector" as such, the point is that a whole shelf full of blank CD cases looks ugly, no-one wants that. Whereas a few scattered about the place look fine and it's a sensible way to fill gaps in back catalogues on a modest income.
 
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