How do you like your indie?

donfers

I have almost 2,000 songs on my iphone.

I download albums by the way - how about you? Do you just cherrypick the tunes you like or download/buy the whole album?

what about your buying trends? the cd in a shop like HMV or legal downloads like itunes or tut tut illegal downloads


and now most importantly of all, how do you listen to your music?

a) where and while doing what? I prefer to listen to music in bed and let it play away until I fall asleep...it's the only time I can really concentrate on the music and not let is just fade into the background while doing something else, only problem is I can't play it too loud at the late hours

b) how do you structure your listening? do you listen to entire albums or do you create a playlist for yourself or do you, as I do, put the songs on random/shuffle and if something you don't like come on just press next/forward

Valmont

donfers wrote:

I download albums by the way...or download/buy the whole album?...or tut tut illegal downloads

I take it you don't pay for your music then? I greatly respect the intellectual property of certain musicians so I make sure to pay them and their publishers for their services. Anything else is theft. This isn't really an Alt/Indie topic so I can't see it staying open long.

Dan Dare

Am very old school. I buy CD's (though I wish I had not stopped buying vinyl records), and right now am waiting for payday to buy the new Gorillaz CD - Plastic Beach.

rcaz

I listen to music while I'm listening to music The ritual of putting a record on a turntable, switching it on, dropping the needle and paying attention is the only way to really listen. MP3 players are great for hearing music, but I do all my proper listening at home, in a comfy chair, with speakers, and preferably from vinyl. Most vinyl comes with a download code inside so you get the ones and zeroes as well as the physical article. Best of both worlds. Having a music file alone is rubbish.

I mostly listen to entire albums. Someone has put a lot of work into writing, arranging, rehearsing, performing, mixing and mastering the songs you're listening to, and probably spent a lot of time deciding the best order in which to present them as a complete body of work. I like to listen to them the way the artist intended. Maybe I won't be able to decide what music I want on while I'm on the train, and I'll stick it on shuffle, but I'll only be hearing the music then anyway. When I want to listen, entire albums are the only way.

NTMK

Full Albums usually illegal downloads except for my favorite bands and small bands i will buy the cd.

arsenallegend

Only albums for me once you take one song away from it it doesn't sound the same.

Splainc

I still believe 100% in the concept of the album and refuse to download music. Have thousands of cds at this stage and amazing independent record stores like Plugd in Cork going out of business has further strengthened my resolve.

I bring my mp3 player everywhere with me so i mostly listen on that but nothing better than coming home and sticking an album on the stereo. Loud.

Buying one song here and there does nothing for me as the best albums are rarely the ones that attract you to the band in the first place. This is usually the singles that lose their shine after repeated listening.

homerun_homer

I still buy cds and after ripping them to the ipod I store them in my parents attic (the place is loaded with my extra stuff). I buy Vinyls of great albums and favourite bands but that's not been for a good while.

I use Hypem to get singles or songs before an album comes out so I can listen to them on repeat until that time. Sometimes if I can't get my hands on a particular song/EP I'll get it on I-tunes (reluctantly).

Spiritoftheseventies

Bit of both. Last album I think i bought online was Seldom Seen Kid. But tends to be singles as rule. The brother did get me fleet foxes though and absolutely loved it.

IsThisIt???

El Pr0n wrote: »

I listen to music while I'm listening to music The ritual of putting a record on a turntable, switching it on, dropping the needle and paying attention is the only way to really listen. MP3 players are great for hearing music, but I do all my proper listening at home, in a comfy chair, with speakers, and preferably from vinyl. Most vinyl comes with a download code inside so you get the ones and zeroes as well as the physical article. Best of both worlds. Having a music file alone is rubbish.

Get off your high horse will you! Fair enough if you like listening to vinyl, that is your choice and it may be better, but that crap your talking about only hearing the music in MP3 form is the biggest load of rubbish i've come across in a long while!

Spiritoftheseventies

On the subject was mentioned on phantom that yesterday was the tenth anniversary of Metallica taking an action against Napster and that ten years on, the whole issue with digital musical hadnt really being sorted re online downloads. Interesting point

Splainc

Spiritoftheseventies wrote: »

On the subject was mentioned on phantom that yesterday was the tenth anniversary of Metallica taking an action against Napster and that ten years on, the whole issue with digital musical hadnt really being sorted re online downloads. Interesting point

Metallica might as well have been the poster boys for illegal downloading as the courtcase was so high profile. i am not saying that it would not have caught on anyhow but they certainly sped things up

Spiritoftheseventies

Splainc wrote: »

Metallica might as well have been the poster boys for illegal downloading as the courtcase was so high profile. i am not saying that it would not have caught on anyhow but they certainly sped things up

Yeah can see where they were coming from but they were a bit over zealous with the way they pursued their case

FortuneChip

Both buy & download. Albums only! You really risk missing out on good songs by only dl what you've already heard or whatever.

I usually chill at home listening to music, whatever I'm liking at the moment ends up accompanying me on my walk to work.
Also, when shopping. I hate doing any kind of shopping without having the iPod playing.

Creamy Goodness

as people have said above...

there's nothing like listening to a vinyl through speakers.

there's also nothing like going into a store, buying the vinyl/cd and then on the bus ride home reading the liner notes in anticipation for what you're going to hear when that needle hits the vinyl/laser hits the disc.

Alan Noir

I like my indie before everyone else.