[pond life]

I am an MP3 junkie. I have gone from shelling out a fortune on records every week to rarely buying more than a few CDs a month, entirely due to this digital phenomenon.

My group of MP3-savvy mates has morphed into an unspoken collective; once one person has shelled out for a CD, it gets "MP3'd" then emailed around to us all (it doesn't really, officer - that would be illegal, and therefore wrong). If you have no idea what I'm rambling about, good. MP3 files are basically sonic crack. Just as illegal, only much, much cheaper to get your hands on.

[Morals]

I think you should be able to listen to albums online as streams and that way you can check out an album before parting with your hard-earned

[pond life]

Its the way of the future, they can't stop the internet - they can't stop this

[Nablo.]

Ihave 3,000 mp3's but it hasn't stopped me going out and buying loads of albums. Nothing like having a good CD collection, least if my PC got wiped I'd still have most of the songs on the CD's.

[pond life]

burn your own cds Cornoman

[kendra k]

that's not the same pondscum! (note the monster bash reference.) i love my collection. it's my baby. with loads of love to give.

[pond life]

Pond scum hmmm I love it Kendra when you talk dirty

Well if ya talking vinyl I'd agree...

[Morals]

My CD collection is huge. Well, I need to be able to say SOMETHING of mine is huge....

[pond life]

I can't see mine its so small... maybe aled would show me his

[Nablo.]

A burned CD is hardly like having a proper version, and if you like an Artist you might as well go out abd buy the album that way the artist/record company gets money, sells well there going to make another album for you to hopefully enjoy.

[pond life]

I just don't buy it

[Morals]

Basically it's stealing - you wouldn't walk into HMV and take a load of albums without paying would you? (Well most of us probably wouldn't anyway). It's the same thing.

[kendra k]

i do.

vinyl cd and cassette.

the collection has it's own life... i just feed it.

[pond life]

Will anyone in their right mind ever buy a CD again? A growing number of artists don't seem to mind they want to kill the bloated corporate music business, and want to give (or sell) their wares direct to the public.

[magenta]

It's all about publicity. I've bought so many CDs recently (ish) of bands that I've only heard of through the Internet. Without the Internet, those bands would not have had my sales.

Although then again, I don't bother buying full price CDs anyway unless it's Ash or they're very cheap, I tend to get them off ebay. But then I remember having this same discussion on this board once before, why don't people complain about ebay killing music, you can buy secondhand CDs sh*t cheap on there, and the artist gets no money from that.

[Morals]

At the end of the day, if the artists aren't making money, they won't make any more records. I propose we download as many Will Young / Gareth Gates records as possible....

[pond life]

yeah its a bit like trailers for films, more exposure is good
its not KILLING music

ps
anyone know if there is aset of Steps cds cheap on eBay fro DrLoz?

[Comedy Jimbob]

I'll pay for music when it's good enough to be paid for. Simple as that.

[pond life]

I think a reasonable price for a cd would make a difference its well over the odds

[magenta]

Oh yeah, and if you like say three songs on a CD, but think the rest are sh*t, then how many people, if they bought that CD, would just tape the three songs, then return the CD, and how many would keep it?

If I download artists songs and I LIKE them all, then I'd go buy the CD. If I download their songs, and there's one I like and the rest are rubbish, of course I won't buy it.

Same thing.

[Ickle Angel]

I used to buy loads of singles and albums but to be honest I havent for ages and tend to download stuff. I mean these popstars earn enough in my opinion. Take robbies new deal with EMI for instance.

[Everlast]

I agree with Magenta that the prices of CD's are very very dear so if the music industry is loosing money they should reduce the price of CDs. The crap eighties throwbacks Bon Jovi have had a good idea, they have inserted a code on the sleeve of the cd which allows you you download the bonus tracks.

[Uglybob]

you cant play celine dions cd album in your pc or mac or old hi fi's just a pity they work in newer hi fi's and everybody would be happy.

[Nablo.]

Pity they play at all really

[Matt]

I download stuff and if it's good I'll go out and buy the CD.

I've just placed a £90 cd order from Amazon after liking what I've downloaded over the last few weeks.

So if I hadn't have heard the tracks on the net I wouldn't have bought them.