rockyracoon said:
well i guess i wont be doing ANY downloading now that Winmx is shut down!!!
winmx sux... I use bit torrent
communities
i'm sure you can google and come up with a site to help you out.
you want honesty? here i go:
I download everything (yeah i said it). i hate CDs. i barely have any space in my room, CDs take up physical space. if i really REALLY like a band i'll buy their CD. most likely at a show. and i won't pay more than 10 bux for it since i'm poor as fuck (i literally have $0 to my name and my parents wouldnt' support me buying 10 CDs a week ($100) they just give me some money to pay for mass transit (can't afford a car) and food).
now here's what i think: support can be done in many forms. i like to promote bands and spread the word. if i won't buy it maybe they will. also i'd rather have a shirt than a freakin CD. yeah a CD sounds better than an mp3, but i find mp3s 1000 times more convienient. i don't burn audio CDs, unless i want a quick mix for my friend to check them out because he has 56k and doesn't download because of it (and can't download at college). in fact most of my CDs just wind up in his car. anyway back to other forms of support: go see them live. if you downloaded them and see them live, ur still supporting the band. I also delete any band i don't like as well as regularly go through my music and delete any band i don't like anymore (recently i got rid of my stratavarious, yeah you heard me).
also any band that wants to send me a demo, i always request that they e-mail it to me or send it over aim, since it saves them on shipping and production costs and someone else can actually purchase that CD.
on top of all of this: most of what i listen to can't be bought at most stores in the US without paying over 15 bux. i usually buy online, but even thats annoying at times and is becomming increasingly expensive.
i also will rarely buy EVERY album a band has done. but i am proud to say that i have both Dead or Dreaming AND Buried in Oblivion.
Into Eternity has become one of my favorite bands. and why? because i was offered to interview them. after being offered i figured i'd check them out. i was then blown away live.
downloading is the way of the future. once connection speeds allow it you'll be downloading uncompressed 96khz/24bit recordings straight from the bands/label. maybe not for free, but you'll still be able to do it, and it'll be higher quality than a freaking CD. and honestly, if they did that instead of Itunes (mp3 quality with DRM), i'd buy it. i wouldn't care if the 96/24bit sound file had DRM because it would sound good.
if i were a label that would be the FIRST thing i'd do when i heard about the internet. i've seen many MANY sound systems that are 192khz/24bit or higher. why not make full use of it?
