Personally, I think that music is music and should be readily available to everyone. So, I download music. With me, buying CDs isn't really about supporting the artist, it's about having the shiny album cover art and pretty CDs (if the CD ends up having no design on it or something, I get really upset. Hahaha.) Plus, I just like having an entire bookshelf filled with CDs.
That said, if I like a CD enough, I will go out and buy it, but generally I (and other people as well) really only like a few songs on a CD. So why spend all of that money if you're only going to listen to one or two songs on a CD?
And someone mentioned this before, but it is so so much easier to download illegally than to go through the trouble of setting up an account at iTunes or some such other place and downloading music that way. On the other side of things, if it's a band that I really like and have liked for a very long time, I'll want to support the artist by buying their CD. (But this usually only happens if it's an underground, indie-label band.)
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Date: 2006-01-14 12:35 am (UTC)That said, if I like a CD enough, I will go out and buy it, but generally I (and other people as well) really only like a few songs on a CD. So why spend all of that money if you're only going to listen to one or two songs on a CD?
And someone mentioned this before, but it is so so much easier to download illegally than to go through the trouble of setting up an account at iTunes or some such other place and downloading music that way. On the other side of things, if it's a band that I really like and have liked for a very long time, I'll want to support the artist by buying their CD. (But this usually only happens if it's an underground, indie-label band.)
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