Do you buy or download your albums?

[{D|aBo|uS}]

According to me, downloading the entire album of a band is damn shit. Metal bands are definitely not making so much money....except for some of them. But anyway, in my case, I only download a couple of song to check if the band is good or not. All my friends, and I am happy to see it, which listen to metal music do the same...for most of them. While it is definitely not the case for some of my friends who listen to other stuff (music that you can here on radio for example).

So, I kinda realized that Metal listeners are most of the time buying their CD and I am damn proud of it. In my point of view....having a collection of downloaded albums just suck.....So, are you buying them? And what do you think of it? Do you think the same as I do, that only downloading albums is just prooving that you're not supporting the metal scene and are not a 100% fan of metal music (maybe that I'm going too far with that last part though....)

:Smokedev: 667, the neighbour of the beast :Smokedev:

 

[polarity]

Download full albums, buy the best, delete the rest.

 

[Demiurge]

are you the same person who's asking the question on every metal forum?

 

[Barth Vader]

I download a couple songs and if I like it, I buy it. I'm really picky when it comes to my music.

 

[MFJ]

I'm on my feet a lot, so I own an iPod. I have like 50 different CDs on the iPod and my PC as of now, but I have a strict policy, I only upload/use/listen to CDs that I own, or CDs that I have borrowed from my friends. Occasionally I'll download some Mp3s off of a band's page or something, but I buy my music.

 

[Oblivious Maximus]

I only download full albums if they're really rare, or out of print, like Moonblood's Blut und Krieg, or Fullmoon's United Aryan Evil.

 

[Hell Mike]

{D|aBo|uS} said it. I buy.

 

[Jean-Pierre]

are you the same person who's asking the question on every metal forum?

My thoughts exactly.

 

[Caelum Adustum]

I buy them.

 

[Ultimate_Symphony]

Download full albums, buy the best, delete the rest.

I do the same.

 

[charnee]

I do both.. because I don't want to waste my money on a shit album when I can just download it and listen to it first and see it its worth buying.

 

[None_So_Vile]

Download a couple of songs, check them out, if i like them i buy the album, if not then delete

 

[polarity]

I used to use the method of downloading a few individual songs from an album in order to make a judgement on it, but since I've started downloading entire albums, I've realized what a flawed method that is. In many cases, it's impossible to get a good idea of the quality of an album from just hearing a few songs; an album is often intended to be a single unified work. There's certainly many albums which I wouldn't have bought if I hadn't heard them in their entirety beforehand, and vice versa.

 

[None_So_Vile]

True, good point, I would download whole albums because I've got a 1MB connection in my room, but quite frankly I'm lazy

 

[None_So_Vile]

True, good point, I would download whole albums because I've got a 1MB connection in my room, but quite frankly I'm lazy and can't be bothered to install and then work out how to use Soulseek, DC or a Bit Torrent

 

[None_So_Vile]

Wtf

 

[MURAI]

True, good point, I would download whole albums because I've got a 1MB connection in my room, but quite frankly I'm lazy

Yes exactly. Anyways my speakers aren't that great.

 

[Pessimism]

i dont have any money, so i download what i can - but when i get money - i buy the albums ive downloaded.

 

[TheMonkeysAteMySoul]

I download a few tracks to see if the band are good, then I buy the cd

 

[5thSeason]

i do both. I download albums that havent been released yet if I really want to hear them. I also download if the album is hard to find, and am unable to locate a copy to buy it. I will also download to check out bands. If I like a band I buy the albums. If I dont, the downloaded tracks get deleted. No reason to hang on to crap.

Personally, collecting CDs is a hobby. I have over 500 cds, none are burned.