Do you buy your music?

Zascar

Jay started a similar thread on software, would be interesting to see the same on music...

Poll attached...

Scubadevils

I did go through a soulseek spell a few years ago but only buy music now on CD or vinyl - have yet to pay for a digital release and highly unlikely I ever will.

As has been said in numerous threads now by several people, you simply cannot beat a physical release. For me now its about the hunt for new or old music, tracking them down either in a store somewhere or online... the package arriving in the post, reading sleeve notes, looking at the artwork, supporting the artist etc.

And having a physical collection to browse rather than just folders!

milltown

I download a lot of stuff for free and 99% gets deleted after a brief skip through. When I find a track I like I'll usually then buy a proper quality version of it and probably a few more releases from the artist or label. I have no guilt about doing this. For one, I'm not making any money from playing music, in fact nobody else gets to hear almost any of it.

I've no doubt the righteous few will still wag their fingers at me but, with dance music in particular, there's little value to me in getting a 40 second preview from a digital download store. I need to "try it on" for want of a better expression, and play with it a bit to see how/if it fits in with the rest of my music in a mix.

Then there's the other side. The classic tracks from 10 - 20 years ago that can't be found on the legal sites. Some of them I'll rip from youtube if I can't find any other source but for quality reasons they'd go no further than the iPod. If anyone ever comes up with a store selling decent digital copies of that sort of stuff my credit card will take some hammering!

ianuss

milltown wrote: »

Then there's the other side. The classic tracks from 10 - 20 years ago that can't be found on the legal sites. If anyone ever comes up with a store selling decent digital copies of that sort of stuff my credit card will take some hammering!

+1 for sure. There's plenty of money to be made in a site like that I'd say

g5fd6ow0hseima

I despise CDs, so if I see an vinyl I like, or a vinyl I think i might like thats on special offer, ill do my best to pick it up. If I had a job i'd be buying a lot more

seannash

ianuss wrote: »

+1 for sure. There's plenty of money to be made in a site like that I'd say

might not be exactly what you want but check it out
http://www.oldskoolmp3.com/

ianuss

seannash wrote: »

might not be exactly what you want but check it out
http://www.oldskoolmp3.com/

Cheers - good shout. I've just had a quick gander at it there, and seems ok. Must have a good look over the weekend and see what treasures I can find

CyberWaste

I buy cds the odd time, but rarely buy anything off beatport, unless I have to have the song in .wav of .flac format.
I get copys of tracks from people who bought the stuff off beat port if that counts... lol

francois

Never bought a download track, nor for that matter a CD, being a strictly vinyl junkie-I used to use soulseek, but then only to checkout if I was to going to spend the money on a record-now though you can get previews of albums or singles legally anywhere.
It's easy enough now to record tracks onto a laptop and transfer them to you player of choice or burn onto CD.

franklyshocked

I used to buy a sh1tload of vinyl but a combination of hurting my back with a heavy record bag and learning about Ableton Live knocked that on the head.
Being honest I have used some of the torrent sites in the past for music but there's zero quality control so easily 90% of downloads ended up getting deleted. I have a beatport and Juno account and I'm very excited about the Juno/Discogs combination for the future.
last year I got made unemployed so not much cash for music but I've been working with a few labels and getting a lot of promo's so I'm still not actually buying a huge amount. Hopefully when I start back to work I'll get a chance to go on a spending spree

joker77

Used to be a vinyl junkie, so in the mid 90s most of my earnings from the local chipper I worked in went on records. Weaned myself off the addiction around the turn of the millenium, sold half the records and kept the good half - burned them to MP3. Never was a CD person for dance music, always had a dislike for the format.

Have used download sites a good bit - Beatport says I've paid for 440 tracks :eek:

Over the last couple of years, I've moved from using Soulseek to just getting music directly on the web through rapidshare type downloads. Like what other people do - I download quite a lot, but always pay for a good bit too. All the talk here recently about vinyl had me pining, so I set back up the 1210s which had been in storage for a while, and went on a splurge - 300 euros worth has arrived over the last week. That'll keep me going for a while!

Is mise le key

milltown wrote: »

Then there's the other side. The classic tracks from 10 - 20 years ago that can't be found on the legal sites. Some of them I'll rip from youtube if I can't find any other source but for quality reasons they'd go no further than the iPod. If anyone ever comes up with a store selling decent digital copies of that sort of stuff my credit card will take some hammering!

Dont know how far he ever got with it but a poster over on the ASYLUM thread called Antoinb has started his own online shop based in england & was going to digitize & clean up loads of old hard to get tunes......he said he was spending a lot of time actually going into the tracks & removing 'pops' etc by hand to clean them up........there is a request section on his site & the pic is Hyperlinked below to bring you there......(a few people were a little upset at his proposals for selling on old mixes when it was discussed which is very relevant to this thread)

Starts here half way down this page with a post from antoinb advertising his site.................
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=64482581#post64482581

Link to Antoinb's site linked in to picture below.......

dubsbhoy

I buy the majority of my music legally

Wouldn't buy anything off any major labels or artists

Riesen_Meal

dubsbhoy wrote: »

Wouldn't buy anything off any major labels or artists

Your too underground for me!



On topic, I spend all my money on wavs where possible, gave up buying mp3s about a year ago, I have had 2 operations on my back in the last few years from carrying vinyl all around this country and beyond, havent played vinyl in 3 or 4 years at this stage.... and im better for it tbh!

I cant actually fathom going into a record shop and spending 13 euro on a cool vinyl from germany when im only gonna play one mix of it, so ill generally jump on whatever digi site floats my boat and buy it.....prob for 2.50

YES - I miss the record shop buzz, but thats just part and parcel of moving on with technology, just means now ive to sift through more ****e that I dont like where I used to have Sunil/Whoever filtering out the ****e before he gave me a handful of records he knows I would be interested in.....

Im also lucky enough to get a fair few promos from a lot of labels I love and respect, and local/foreign producers send me a lot of stuff, be it on cdr/wav download/wax/whatever....

In response to what someone was stating above about classics, I recommend Juno for the classics, has a fantastic back catalogue which p1sses on the likes of beatports...

electrogrimey

If I had no financial restrictions, I'd buy all my music on CD, and also download a copy in 320 or WAV, so I could have both a physical collection, and a good quality file to play out. Unfortunately, I can only afford to pay for music when I get a decent spell of paid gigs, so I'll go through patches of using zippyshare etc, but then I'll usually go back and buy anything back I've downloaded illegally.

devinejay

I used to be really faithful to physical media for ages, but in the end it just got too expensive for me. It was only CDs cause I've no record player and I don't DJ, but I really loved having an actual CD rather than a download, especially when it was something other than a boring old jewel case. The cost was becoming an issue, I was spending the same money on CDs that my mates were spending on drink, and also trying to find what I wanted was a pain. Granted I love just browsing and making a great discovery, it can be really frustrating when you're dying to hear one release for weeks and no sign of it in the shop.

Now I've just given up and started downloading a whole lot, and tbh it has meant a lot more great music (especially since I started reading way more music blogs, especially with all the "best of the decade" lists I'm going through)

I go to a lot of gigs, so that helps the conscience supporting-the-artist wise, and at the end of the day, with any luck, when (if!?!?) I actually start making money I'll be back buying physical stuff as soon as I can.

crowdcontrol

I buy alot of CD's as I do a radio show. I'm just back from a week in New York and not a single CD shop in the city. Found a few small stores selling mainly second hand gear. All the majors are gone and anywhere I asked I would get responses like "thats a thing of the past man" or "its all gone itunes"

Is that the future? Is CD dead already?

Ciaran

seannash

crowdcontrol wrote: »

I buy alot of CD's as I do a radio show. I'm just back from a week in New York and not a single CD shop in the city. Found a few small stores selling mainly second hand gear. All the majors are gone and anywhere I asked I would get responses like "thats a thing of the past man" or "its all gone itunes"

Is that the future? Is CD dead already?

Ciaran

is the big virgin store on 14th not still there?

the only other cd shop that would have been known to people unfamiliar with new york is the one in times sq and tower records on broadway and prince.
but
there are plenty of cd shops still in new york.

but anyway i do think it will go all digital eventually for the masses but djs and audiophiles or real fans will want something they can hold.

that being said i dont download a whole lot of new music and any music i hear now is usually from youtube or on a mix.

once im in my own home the idea of owning a physical vinyl release of some of my favourite albums is going to be very appealing to me but right now as i move around from place to place its just too inconvenient

ianuss

seannash wrote: »

but anyway i do think it will go all digital eventually for the masses but djs and audiophiles or real fans will want something they can hold.

Tiefschwarz reckon the same.........it makes for an interesting read


http://www.djtechtools.com/2010/04/14/tiefschwarz-interview-the-death-of-vinyl-and-big-labels/