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music mayhem
Submitted by bloggityblog07 on 4 December 2006 - 1:42am.
As a self proclaimed music junkie,(bad included...I listened to Beyonce's B-Day this afternoon) I have taken a particular interest in this P2P slash music downloading versus legal buying discussion. Since some of you have posted your personal music collecting habits, I thought I would share mine since I have been curious to hear how other go about finding their groove thang.
Anyway, I have always been somewhat neurotic about my music collection aka spend hours upon hours relabeling songs on itunes, reorganize my music collection regularly, and buy the real CD when I have a burned copy because I think burned CD's are ugly. Sometimes my music habits are borderline OCD and create a serious distraction for me but sometimes that is just how I roll.
I have used numerous P2P music programs, first Kakaa, then Aquarius or whatever that one was, then LimeWire. After my computer crashed about 2 months ago, I have yet to install a new one. In the past, I typically downloaded music to see if I like a CD or artist and then I would buy the album. I have this thing about owning the real CD's, I am still in awe of people who buy entire albums on itunes and stuff when they could buy a hard copy for the same price. I guess that is me being a technologically wary and paranoid grandmother, but hey if the shoe fits right?
I am a huge fan of P2P music sharing because I honestly believe that it only helps the industry. I think more people than the music industry would like to believe, use P2P's as a means to preview future purchases. While I am sure the effect on different artists varies dramatically, on the whole, I can't help but see P2P's as a stimulant to the industry.
On a more personal note, who doesn't love being able to listen to Shortie Like Mine by Bow Wow without having to buy the whole CD?
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the only time i've bought on album on itunes is when it had a bonus track that the regular cd didn't. i'm still tied to buying real cds, but i guess why in theory i can understand why people do that, is that the music is already digital. nowadays, when i get a new cd, for me to listen to it a lot, i have to burn it on my computer and then on to my ipod. i don't listen to the actual cds themselves as much. at least in my own experience, mp3's have gone from just an easy way to get free music, to my preferred medium of listening to music. buying from itunes is a way to cut out the middle man of the actual cd. i still think album art is improtant, and lyric books, etc. however, increasingly those aspects have become more peripheral in my experience of music.
i like talking about this stuff a lot, i guess, because it's such a large part of my life. listening, collecting music, downloading, etc. i did almost on a daily basis for almost 10 years (that's crazy!)